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Aycock Airport Battle Moves to Arbitration
The saga of Alice Aycock vs. the food stands continues as the artist and JFK's Terminal One Group Association (TOGA) head to arbitration to settle their dispute.
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Artist Makes Real Rainbows
Well, here's something we didn't think could be done: homemade rainbows. Artist Michael Jones McKean has figured out how to create colorful arcs of light in the sky, and he'll be projecting them above the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, this summer. It's like instant happiness
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Is Ridgewood Breaking Away from the Bushwick Scene?
A Queens neighborhood, with the help of the Queens Museum of Art, is coming into its artified own.
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Is Marina Abramović Trying to Create a Performance Art Utopia?
Nearly 150 people gathered in MoMA PS1's performance dome this morning to hear Marina Abramović present plans for her new museum dedicated to performance art in Hudson, NY. As the crowd took their places on and around the oversize red ottomans filling the space, people gazed at and stuck their heads
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Helsinki Says “No” to the Guggenheim
Members of Helsinki's City Board have rejected the long-standing proposal to build a branch of the Guggenheim Museum on the city's waterfront. Eight of the board's fifteen members voted today against furthering the proposal to the City Council for consideration.
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Jerry Saltz Slams Tonight's Auction of Edvard Munch's Scream
Today, New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss tonight's Sotheby's auction of Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Saltz isn't a fan of the circus surrounding tonight's sale and he dislikes that the chatter is mostly about the projected price tag and not the art itself.
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Your Chance to See One of William Wegman's Dogs Dance
If you've ever wanted to see a dancing dog — and not just any dog, but one of William Wegman's Weimaraners — you're about to get your chance. Choreographer Karole Armitage has teamed up with a handful of visual artists, including Wegman, Will Cotton, Kalup Linzy and Aïda Ruilova, for a dance-cum-per
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WTC1 Is Officially the Tallest Building in New York
WTC1 may have reached the 100-floor mark on April 2, but today, April 30, it has officially surpassed the Empire State Building (1,250 ft./381 m) as the tallest building in New York.
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Watch Performance Art Live from Home Tonight
If you're hoping to see some art tonight but also don't want to leave your couch, we have a solution: Beginning at 8:30 pm, the international internet performance art festival Low Lives will begin broadcasting online, with performances from artists around the world, including a number in Brooklyn.
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New Academic Journal and MIT Center for Arts and Technology to Launch
LOS ANGELES — Lots of srsbsns with the arts and technology in the news lately. What caught my eye was a new Center for Arts, Science and Technology at MIT and a new academic journal, the Journal for Digital Humanities.
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What Part of Your Brain Falls in Love With Art?
LOS ANGELES — If you're reading this, you probably know the feeling. You've just fell in love with a work of art. Now science is trying to figure out how that happens.
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Is Stolen Art Work in Bushwick a Case of False Advertising?
Adam Simon's Steal This Art doesn't really mean it. Too bad the culprit didn't know that.