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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a cow sculpture gets tipped, Warhol prints get ripped, and Lil Wayne's collection gets raided.
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Bad Girl Criminality and American Teen Dreams
News broke last month that celebrity Lindsay Lohan would soon be getting her own "docu-series," aka reality TV show, on OWN, the Oprah Network. Now that she’s out of court-ordered rehab, she'll sit down with Oprah for an exclusive interview about all things LiLo, airing August 18th; her reality TV s
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Spring Breakers: More Skittles Than Chess
The dust has now begun to settle in the wake of the release of Spring Breakers, director Harmony Korine’s highly anticipated and now much-debated crime drama about four college co-eds who go on a crime spree during a holiday in Florida. By now, even if you haven’t seen the movie, you probably know a
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Louis Vuitton Spots New Japanese Artist, Same Old Accessories Expected
I find it exciting when fine art fuses with fashion, and Louis Vuitton’s recently announced collaboration with Yayoi Kusama may produce some spectacularly spotted goods. Interestingly, this pairing coincided with former LV collaborator Takashi Murakami’s newly unveiled installation at Qatar Museums
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Proenza Schouler Meets Harmony Korine with Questionable Results (And Possibly Pedophilia)
What happens when the suave gentlemen of the New York-based womenswear and accessories brand Proenza Schouler cross paths with the provocative trash-humping auteur Harmony Korine? This shit, apparently.
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Curb Dance with Harmony Korine
Dedicated to legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Korine's "Curb Dancing" (2011) video feels like opening a trunk in a strange attic to discover an unfinished short story and a dusty music box.
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Harmony Korine and Bill Saylor Go Gritty in Ho Bags
Harmony Korine is known chiefly as a filmmaker, best for writing Larry Clark's 1995 cult hit Kids. His most recent movie, Trash Humpers, was variously decried and praised for its unabashedly gritty commitment to a certain kind of disturbing, voyeuristic realism. Bill Saylor is an artist who works in
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Nada is Miami Beach's Lower East Side
Tired of all the chatter [http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/bathrobe-brigade-its-art-basel-vs-cool-kids-nada-grows] about Nada being the next big thing, I decided to see if this year's display would be everything the PR and press promised it would be. Honestly, it was. Even if the solo artist boo