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On Leaving the Brooklyn Museum After 17 Years: An Interview with Arnold Lehman
Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he would retire from his position as the director of the Brooklyn Museum.
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People's Climate Arts Goes Beyond Global Warming
It's been six months since the People's Climate March took over the streets of Manhattan, but the group behind some of the rally's most iconic artworks is busier than ever.
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The Story of an American Artist Who Was Denied Entry into Israel
Last week, Brooklyn-based graphic designer, curator, and artist Laura Arena was denied entry into Israel in an experience she is still trying to understand.
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Douglas Coupland Wants to Give You Brain Orgasms
TORONTO — "I like art about art. I think many people pussyfoot around this issue."
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Where Are the Women of Color in New Media Art?
Not long ago I wrote an article celebrating the work being done by cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab. After the piece was published, a writer, curator, and friend wrote to me to express concerns about the lack of women of color artists in the group.
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A Webcomic for Your Existential Angst
Corey Mohler, the man behind Existential Comics, has taken a novel approach to philosophy, creating whimsical drawings that illustrate key philosophical concepts.
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A Documentarian of Creative Disruption
Ondi Timoner is the only two-time recipient of Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for documentaries. She's also the founder and CEO of Interloper Films, a full-service production company based in Pasadena, California, that continually releases videos through an online video portal, A Total Disruption.
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Making Political Art with Bones and Stars
Earlier this month, Albuquerque-based social practice artists Naomi Natale and Susan McAllister, founders of the Art of Revolution, were among six others to receive the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's inaugural Artist as Activist fellowship.
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Beer with a Painter: Lois Dodd
Lois Dodd has lived in a loft-studio on Second Street near the Bowery for over fifty years. When visiting her, one is struck by the independence of her lifestyle, as well as her work.
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Art for the Discerning Drone
This summer the Knockdown Center, the sprawling arts space in Maspeth, Queens, will host a drone obstacle course consisting entirely of specially commissioned sculptures.
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365 Poetic Remembrances of the French Revolutionary Calendar
LONDON — The Scottish, London-based artist Ruth Ewan is being perfectly reasonable and polite when she says of the British monarchy: “It's going to have to go at some point. Whether it’s through social struggle, or a natural event, they’re not going to be around forever.”
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In the Desert, a Vulture Spirit Follows a Trail of Femicide
Alone amid cacti, barbed wire, and phone lines, she is looking for something. The figure raises her rake — which seems like half claw, half witch’s broom — above her head, then returns to it to the sand.