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SAN FRANCISCO — Curated by students of the Curatorial Studies program at the California College of the Arts, this compact, well-considered gathering of work across many media by Martin Wong is a marvel of what the small-scale and seemingly ephemeral can communicate.
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MIAMI BEACH — “There’s a lot of product going on here,” I heard a woman say into her cell phone at the mega-art fair Art Basel Miami Beach 2014. Indeed, $3 billion worth of art is being offered for sale this year, according to the event’s organizers.
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During my recent visit to Write of Passage, I encountered graffiti legend Chris "DAZE" Ellis, who allowed me to interview him about another graffiti legend, Martin Wong.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — I first met Rick Beerhorst in 1986, when he was a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. One of his teachers was Peter Bodnar, whose small, quirky, symbolic abstractions with a spiritual undercurrent — they share something with J
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What is it about the personal collection on display that is so appealing, so instantly resonant? Danh Vo, the artist best known for his conceptual sculpture series We the People (detail), has presented in the exhibition I M U U R 2 some 4,000 objects from the home of Martin Wong.
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Tom Sanford and Graham Preston's latest project, "Saints of the Lower East Side" (2012), remembers "when," or more precisely marches out some of the progressive history of an area that has been mostly reduced to cool tshirts from a bygone era.
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There's the stuff everyone is applauding … yawn … but that's boring, we want to point out some things that are under most people's radar and why they deserve some notice. Here's our list of the 9 Most Underappreciated Art Shows & Events in New York during 2010.