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Bloody Bloody Boudoir Ladies: Turning Kitsch Ceramics Into Horror
Edinburgh-based artist Jessica Harrison transforms the collectible ceramic ladies that populate grandmothers' china cabinets into spectacles of gore.
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Crispin Glover Tackles Hollywood Taboos
If you only know Crispin Hellion Glover as a quirky actor with the gift of an unsettling gaze, then you're missing out on the major focus of his career as the producer of experimental films that lunge voraciously into taboos. And it's easy to miss, as the only way to see these films is when he scree
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The Unpleasant Smell of Lost Opportunities, or How One Museum Show Became a Luxury Boutique
Camille Paglia, who famously polarized artists and intellectuals throughout the 1990s, is back. In her new book, Glittering Images, her mission is to bring closure to an era she feels is full of art-world stunts and isolating pretension, in exchange for a return to art-world appreciation among a gen
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Sand Painting at Columbus Circle
I stopped by the Museum of Art and Design to see the public section of the show Swept Away taking place on the sidewalks surrounding the museum with Tibetan mandala-esque street art by Joe Mangrum.
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Comfort in Limbo
If you find yourself at the Museum of Arts and Design this spring, be sure to check out its survey of unsettling quasi-documentary videos by Julika Rudelius, titled What Is on the Outside. The pieces, which were created by Rudelius between 2001 and 2010, range in length from three to 29 minutes, and
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Putting the FUN in New York Nightlife
Club kids (and their art world fans) rejoice! The Museum of Arts and Design's FUN Fellowships have announced their new round of grantees.
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Beautiful Dirt
The art in Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) has some of the best material lists I've ever seen: city dust and pencil on silk; soot on organic cotton canvas; dryer lint and cotton; blown glass and ash from burned books. It's label
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Attention Holiday Shoppers: NY Museum Sets Up Shop in Tony NJ Mall
Manhattan's Museum of Arts and Design's retail arm has crossed the Hudson to pitch their tent between Saks Fifth Avenue and Cole Haan on the Short Hills Mall's second floor.
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The Precious Gems Art History Forgot
Imagine strolling through clean, bright halls, surrounded by immaculate display cases filled with baubles and trinkets, the steam-polished precious metals and gems coruscating in the glare of spotlights. Hear your feet clacking on the white floors, stopping to look closer at the jewelry on display,
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Artists Create Surreal Miniature Worlds
I'd been promised “enchanted landscapes, fantastic worlds, and strange encounters” and had already voyaged through wartime Italy, haunted hallways, Chuck Close's art studio, and a seedy peepshow. Then I collided with all three at once. A sedentary carousel of animals and imps suddenly spun into a 3D
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Water Gun Fight In a Museum!
Jason Eppink describes himself online as an "Urban Alchemist, Rapid Prototyper, Mischief Maker," so it should come as no surprise that he stirred things up during his February 24 lecture at the Museum of Arts and Design with a water gun fight.
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NY Museum Embraces the Art of Clubbing
Could your next bar night actually be an art night? THE FUN Fellowship, a new initiative by New York City's Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), promotes nightlife to the status of art. From the creation of a shared artistic community to the breakdown of social boundaries that comes with an excess of su