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Next month, Brooklyn will be hosting a large-scale night market in a 40,000 sq ft warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The inaugural Brooklyn Night Bazaar took place on October 9 at Dekalb Market in downtown Brooklyn and attracted over 5,000 visitors.
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To add to our continued coverage of Occupy Wall Street updates today, the ties between OWS and Sotheby's locked-out art handlers are growing stronger. Artinfo posted today that the art handlers are joining Occupy Wall Street in a protest against the movement's eviction from Zuccotti Park earlier thi
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After the New York Mayor's office assured the world via Twitter that the Occupy Wall Street library was "safely stored," it has become apparent that the statement was a half-truth at best.
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Today, we learned that he was arrested yesterday during the November 17 protests. We spoke to his father, artist Bo Bartlett, who says that apparently Man Bartlett is not out of prison yet.
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The first New York iteration of the Frieze art fair, which is slated to take place May 4–7, 2012, will touch down ib Randall’s Island Park at the intersection of Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens. The fair will be housed in a structure designed by Brooklyn-based SO-IL Architects.
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Since this morning's raid of Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street movement began, there have been questions about the state of the movement's symbolic 5,000+ book library.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN — In the middle of the lush suburban academic oasis of the 319-acre Cranbrook educational community sits the Cranbrook Museum of Art, which re-opened last Friday November 11 after a two-year $22 million expansion and renovation.
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Last Friday, artist Ophelia Chong had the kind of day most artist's dread. On that fateful day she was told by one of her students that Starbucks was using graphics that looked a great deal like hers that … well, judge for yourself.
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The final text and signatories of Yvonne Rainer's letter to Jeffrey Deitch/MOCA protesting Marina Abramović's performance for the MOCA gala is on the Artforum website [http://artforum.com/news/#news29378]. There are 50 signatures on the letter.
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Since Marina Abramović was picked to provide the entertainment for LA MOCA's upcoming gala we've all been wondering what the performance art queen would conjure up to do her bidding. Now, we kind of know and it raises some serious questions, namely, is performance art ever an excuse for labor abuse?
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At the huge protest by the Local 814 art handlers in front of Sotheby's this Wednesday, the divide between the 1% and the 99% in the art world could not have been clearer. While protesters chanted, whistled and booed from the heavily barricaded picket lines, wealthy auction attendees were rushed int
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In today's dose of art history geek news, we turn to the Daily Mail, which reports that "art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous [13th C.] frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi."