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Artists Pick Artists: Clive Hodgson

Clive Hodgson started as an abstract painter, switched to figuration, then turned back to abstraction after his distaste for narrative and object-based painting grew; he found that it was no longer tenable.

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Images of War, Re-Photographed and Transformed

Re-photographing (or re-purposing) the news media began for me as a healing ritual, a kind of laying-on-of-hands, to purge my despair over news events around the world.

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Artist Exchange: In Conversation with Ben La Rocco

Ben La Rocco’s current exhibition Alien Bird Song opens today at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY. It is an exhibition of new painting and sculpture, a departure from the artist’s usual practice of showing paintings exclusively.

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A Conference Considers the Philosophy of Street Art

Today, a three-day conference titled Philosophy of Street Art: Art in and of the Street begins at Pratt Institute and New York University.

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Talking Pictures with a Film Curator of 45 Years

Charles Silver has worked at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) since 1970, first in the film studies center and then (and still) as a curator in the department of film.

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Beer with a Painter: Gregory Botts

I have known Gregory Botts for about twenty years. Early on, I remember being captivated by the guerilla action he and his wife, fellow painter Jenny Hankwitz, took in the early 1990s: planting sunflowers in the meridian of Houston Street in SoHo.

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Plotting Your Favorite Novels Visually

Matthew Jockers, a professor at the University of Nebraska, is at work compiling data from novels in an attempt to determine if they share a set of common plots.

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Christy Rupp on Rats, Geese, and the Ecology of Public Art

Christy Rupp burst onto the New York art scene with "Rat Patrol," a street art response to the sanitation strike of 1979.

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New App Lets Users Outsource Their Relationships

Part art project, part philosophical experiment, and part functional app, pplkpr is an app that “tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships.”

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Artists Pick Artists: Sherman Sam

"I decided to make abstraction paintings because they were the hardest, and, to me, most interesting thing to do."

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Looking for Actors and Authenticity on Craigslist

LOS ANGELES — Sometimes the best scenes and characters come to writers and performance artists through improvisation.

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Beer with a Painter: Terry Winters

“Let’s just delete all of that and start over again,” Terry Winters said to me, laughing, mid-way through our conversation.