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The fourth and final in a special series sponsored by 20x200 that profiles some of the people who are attending the New York art fairs this week. The following is a random sampling of attendees at the 2011 Scope art fair on Saturday night. Here is who and what I found on a Saturday night in SoHo.
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The third in a special series sponsored by 20x200 that profiles some of the people who are attending the New York art fairs this week. The following is a random sampling of attendees at the 2011 The Independent art fair on Friday night. Here is who and what I found on a Friday night in Chelsea.
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The second in a special series sponsored by 20x200 that profiles some of the people who are attending the New York art fairs this week. The following is a random sampling of attendees at the 2011 The Dependent art fair on Friday night. Here is who and what I found on a Thursday afternoon in Chelsea.
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Wayne Coe creates complicated sand paintings on the sidewalks and floors of New York using the language of gay male porn theater advertising from the 1970s and 1980s to create ads for contemporary artists. I caught up with the artist, who was performing for six hours yesterday as part of Brooklyn Ar
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Starting today, I will be posting a special series sponsored by 20x200 that will profile some of the people who are attending the New York art fairs this week. I did a random sampling of attendees at the 2011 Pulse Art Fair to give a sense of who the audience is for these annual events. Here is who
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Last month, we learned that Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City curated a show of animated GIFs and now I've discovered that Lauren Cornell, the executive director of Rhizome, is selling these often trippy nuggets of Graphics Interchange Format at the 2011 New York Armory Show. Yes, that's right. She's a
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The “Oficina de Gestion de Muros” (Walls Management Office) is an independent Spanish project that fills the empty spaces around the city of Madrid with art. WMO is putting the best street artists on the planet in touch with Madrid locals, neighbors, shopkeepers and businesses alike who have empty w
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The Brooklyn Museum has an extensive collection of Spanish Colonial painting, but the institution's relatively new curator of European art Richard Aste knew the museum lacked the same depth in their British colonial works. Recently, Brooklyn's premiere fine art institution announced the acquisition
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Yesterday, someone suggested to me that artist Steve Lambert's Anti-Advertising Agency was calling it quits after six years of producing some of the most socially engaged work around. For those who may be unfamiliar with the group, they actively co-opted the language of advertising and public relati
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During last month's #TheSocialGraph exhibition, Hill dressed as a panda and lived in a crate in the gallery. He named the character, "Punch Me Panda." For a penny you could either punch him in the gallery or invite him to your home in Brooklyn via tweet (@natexhill). He also roamed the streets tryin
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The radical performance art collective, Voina, has been challenging the Russian authorities for years but on November 15 two of their artists, co-founder Oleg Vortonikov and Leonid Nikolayev, were arrested for a performance this past summer that involved the overturning of a cop car as part of an an
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David C. Ward is co-curator of the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture [http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/exhhide.html] exhibition, which has become a lightning rod for right-wing attacks on the federally funded Smithsonian institution. The show is the fi