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Get Your Loft Law Questions Answered at a Free Clinic
Attention all New York artists living and working in converted industrial studios: New York City Loft Tenants has begun hosting a bimonthly housing clinic.
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Creative Time Releases a Statement About the 2012 Summit Boycott
On October 12, during Creative Time's 2012 Summit we liveblogged the evolving boycott over what some people were calling a "partnership" with an Israeli organization that received funds from the Israeli government. Now the venerable arts nonprofit has released a statement regarding the event and the
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Man Tries to Sell Fake Jasper Johns for $11M
The owner of a foundry in Long Island City was arrested yesterday for allegedly making a bronze sculpture and trying to pass it off as an original Jasper Johns. But this isn't quite your run-of-the-mill art fraud, because the man, Brian Ramnarine, actually has a real mold from Johns; the artist gave
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5 Go Brooklyn Artists Chosen for Brooklyn Museum Show
We already chimed in about GO Brooklyn's Top 10 nominees but now they field has been shaved to five artists who will be featured in an exhibition, which opens December 1, at the Brooklyn Museum.
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4 Finds from Last Weekend's Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Last Saturday, November 10th's Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Festival one-day fair was a packed event that featured close to a hundred exhibitors that attracted thousands of fans from across the city. The enthusiasm on the two-floors of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's church hall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, w
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Warhol Museum Director to Highlight American Art at Armory Show 2013
Each year, the Armory Show art fair highlights the particular artistic landscape of a region of the world in their Focus section. In 2013, the spotlight will fall on the United States, the Armory's native homeland.
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GIF Is Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year, Duh
If you needed another clue that the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, the short, looping digital animation file, has become totally ubiquitous, the Oxford Dictionary has selected the term as its word of the year.
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Art Dealers Association Offers Relief in the Wake of Sandy
As everyone knows by now — and as we tried to document extensively here — Hurricane Sandy wreaked a fair amount of havoc on the art world. Streets and galleries flooded in Chelsea, art spaces downtown and in Queens lost power, artists living or working in Red Hook, Gowanus, and other hard-hit areas
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Art Thieves Rob South African Museum but Leave Behind the Real Prize [UPDATED]
The Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa was just the victim of a terrible robbery — but the thieves weren't quite smart enough to take full advantage of their haul. They stole $2 million in art, but the most significant piece was left behind because it didn't fit in their car.
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Keep Hope Alive Alive and Other Democratic Clichés
Artist Suzanne Broughel's "Keep Hope Alive Alive" project takes vintage designs from past Black presidential candidates (Jesse Jackson and Shirley Chisholm mostly) and altered them to remove the candidate's name and image leaving the generic imagery of "hope," "change," and the other clichés of the
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Just the Facts: 2012 US Presidential Candidates Arts Positions
How do the two US Presidential candidates measure up in regards to their arts-funding records?
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MoMA PS1's Klaus Biesenbach Explains Why Rockaway Needs Your Help Now
For the last week, MoMA PS1 director and curator Klaus Biesenbach has been actively tweeting about the devastation in the Rockaways section of Queens, which was hit hard by post-tropical cyclone Sandy. While power returned to most of lower Manhattan late Friday night and 80% of the city's subway sys