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Beer with a Painter: Mark Greenwold
I was surprised when Mark Greenwold gave me his address, because it was, like my own apartment, in “upstate Manhattan,” a far remove from the center of the art world.
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8th Berlin Biennale Curator on Berlin, Contemporary Art, and Gentrification
BERLIN — Juan A. Gaitán is a typical hyphenated global art professional. The Canadian-Colombian independent writer and curator is based in Mexico City and Berlin, and he was chosen to curate the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, which opens today.
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Artists Pick Artists: Serban Savu
Serban Savu lives in Cluj, Romania and makes his paintings in a former paintbrush factory. His subjects are his surroundings, his people and places, sometimes painted directly or other times invented.
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Masks for the Surveillance State
SAN FRANCISCO — It seems like everyone is making artistic reactions to our increasingly surveilled world.
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Artist Plants a Digital Dance Intervention at MoMA
Art museums and performing artists have a complicated relationship. Though to some they may seem like a natural pairing, or at least a reasonable one, there's an inherent tension.
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A New Street Art and Graffiti Museum in New Jersey?
This week, Jersey City's Mana Contemporary made the surprise announcement that they will be creating a street art and graffiti museum in a 100,000-square-foot former ice factory near the Holland Tunnel entrance.
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Shifting Silhouettes in Oak Park
CHICAGO — At Terrain Exhibitions, an artist-run space in Oak Park, Illinois, artist Karen Azarnia has created an installation consisting of a suite of banners that appear in varying light situations on the front porch of a suburban home.
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The Other LAPD: The Los Angeles Poverty Department on Skid Row
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Poverty Department uses the acronym LAPD, which is deliberately named to evoke associations between police, the criminal justice system, and how people living in poverty are treated.
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Semiotext(e) at the Biennial: An Interview with Hedi El Kholti
Semiotex(e) is widely known as the publisher that brought French theory to America. Initially a scholarly journal founded in the early '70s by Sylvère Lotringer and others at Columbia University, Semiotext(e)’s reach expanded into the underground and downtown scenes, creating and reflecting affiniti
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Discusses His First Film in 23 Years
Once he hung up the phone and we were seated, I quickly understood I could have list of questions but Jodorowsky was going to talk about, well, whatever Jodorowksy wanted to talk about. “How to think about my new picture … ” he began.
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Syrian Artists Fight a 'Culture of Emptying'
Meet the organization helping Syrian artists in Lebanon traverse Beirut's burgeoning arts scene while maintaining their identity.
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An Art Gallery on a Car
CHICAGO — Tuesday night I road middle shotgun while snuggled tightly between Jesse Malmed and Raven Munsell, prodding the couple with questions about their mobile art gallery, Trunk Show.