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Opinion

Is Occupying Museums Misguided?

This Occupy Museum effort is the most peculiar Occupy Wall Street/art-related thing I've heard about yet. A protest is slated for tomorrow and intends to "occupy" the Frick Museum, MoMA and the New Museum.

News

Psst, Pass It On … Flashmob Tonight at New Museum [UPDATE 3]

A little birdy told us that there's a flashmob brewing tonight at the New Museum called "The Perfect Match." We're not sure of the details yet but we hear it will have quite an ending! Stay tuned as we find out more. UPDATE: We hear through the grapevine that the New Museum is doing everything possi

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Wackiest News of the Day: UFO at New Museum?

What the hell is that diamond-shaped object floating in the sky? A photographer shot this unidentified object from the New Museum's Sky Room Terrace, according to his testimony on a UFO site.

Art

A Painter Revists the Images of 9/11 at 7 World Trade Center

Let the avalanche of September 11 exhibitions begin. As the tenth anniversary of the attack approaches, the art world gears up to remember and reflect with some of the bigger (and most intriguing) shows slated to run at blockbuster institutions like the Met, MoMA PS1 and the New Museum, as well as t

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A Letter to Merce Cunningham

Dear Merce Cunningham, As your company comes to a close this winter, I have been on the look out for all things Merce. Wanting to understand you better and hoping that I could still understand you even after you have passed, I visited Charles Atlas's video tribute to you now at the New Museum not ju

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Ghosts Of Glasnost: “Ostalgia” At The New Museum

The specter of communism currently haunts the New Museum [http://www.newmuseum.org/] in its summer "bloc-buster" exhibition “Ostalgia.” [http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/440/] It’s an ambitious project that consumes most of the galleries with a swirling conglomeration of disparate mediums, artis

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Seven Artists Meet Seven Technologists, But Who's Who?

Seven on Seven is an annual conference hosted by Rhizome and the New Museum that pairs seven artists together with seven technologists to collaborate on projects created in a 24-hour period. The event's second outing was last Saturday, May 14. The first question that came to my mind while attending

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What to Do This Weekend: Williamsburg Gallery Night, Man Bartlett, Su Friedrich, Seven on Seven

Can't figure out how to fill up your culture diet this weekend? We've got your back, with Williamsburg Gallery Night going down tonight and Man Bartlett's 140 hour-long Berlin performance streaming all weekend, plus Su Friedrich's MICROSCOPE Gallery opening and the Seven on Seven art-tech collaborat

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Big Name Artists Hit the Street With Bowery Murals

As part of the Festival of Ideas For the New City anchored by the New Museum, a group of major artists have sprinkled the Bowery with murals. In collaboration with the Art Production Fund, painters including Mary Heilmann, Richard Prince and Jacqueline Humphries created murals for the roll-down meta

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Festival of Ideas Animates a Gentrified Bowery

Obama laid a wreath at the base of the former World Trade Towers right after Osama had been buried at sea. And, as if on cue the utopian “Festival of Ideas For the New City” launched, vowing to “harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to

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Can't-Miss NY Art Events For This Weekend

Even with New York City's constantly-full calendar of art events, this weekend is packed with shows, activities and sights for the whole family to enjoy. Check out the Festival of New Ideas around the New Museum, plus their Condo show ending this weekend, and see a new public sculpture by sculptor J

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First Look: George Condo Unveiled at New Museum

At a preview of the New Museum's George Condo retrospective, I was struck by the painter's relentless engagement with all sorts of art historical genres, from Baroque portraiture to abstract expressionism and back again. Here's a photo essay covering the entire Condo exhibition, from the salon style