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Yesterday on my rounds of Chelsea, I stumbled upon three amazing photographs on the walls of Andrew Edlin gallery. Included as part of Collectors of Skies, a wonderfully eclectic if somewhat theoretically abstract group show, each is a photograph of thousands of soldiers brought together to form a l
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BERKELEY, California — Artists Julius von Bismark and Julien Charriere have teamed up to create a hilarious installation first in Venice and now in Copenhagen entitled, "Some Pigeons Are More Equal than Others" (2012). The performative work exists on multiple levels: a hanging sculpture (pictured be
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CHICAGO — When my wife was completing her mail-in voter ballot for the upcoming US elections, something on the instruction leaflet caught my eye.
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As if you needed any more: 30 Reasons is a series of campaign posters presenting arguments for the re-election of our incumbent president created by independent designers from across the United States.
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With this one, the title pretty much says it all. Ai Weiwei's entire studio has participated in a remake of South Korean rapper PSY's epic global pop hit "Gangnam Style."
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The insular art world likes its public follies almost as much as Hollywood. We're constantly looking for the latest slip-up, the misspoken press statement or flubbed exhibition. That's why the trials and travails of Jeffrey Deitch as the director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art have be
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This doesn't happen very often. It's highly unusual for someone in an industry to critique its inner workings.
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This week, the difficulty of selling stolen paintings, what art forgers paint in their down time, Picasso's 17 year old lover, the "meaning" of hotels, the state of political art, the lives of the 1%, and more.
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I've always enjoyed riding the subway impossible distances — out to Coney Island, say, or the Far Rockaways — largely because the cityscape and the scenery change so much along the way. Traveling out to the ends of various lines transports you away from the New York City you know.
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Words and writing, even those you're seeing here, are an imperfect vehicle for communication. There's always a disconnect between the writer and their audience; meaning is translated through a medium that's easy to misunderstand or misinterpret. Spanish photographer Alejandro Guijjaro's Momentum ser
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It's time once again to look at a particular metric of art-world success — Art Review's Power 100, which gets published annually to tell us just how many people place above us in the supposed pecking order. There still aren't any bloggers on the list (though, to be fair, writers and editors aren't a
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Today China's biggest online food retailer, Yihaodian, announced one of the most amazingly weird plans I've ever heard: the company will roll out 1,000 virtual supermarkets around the country. The stores — spanning 1,200 square meters (roughly 12,900 square feet) in virtual space and stocking about