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Overheard in the Art World
This week, the art world is at a crawl but that's not to say there wasn't chatter about STDs, sandcastles in Rockaway and a new art world (wanna-be) sensation, Gallery Girls.
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The Best & Worst Tweets About Today's Pussy Riot Verdict
The Twitterverse is full of opinions and here is just some of the most notable 140 characters or less commentary that appeared on our screens.
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How Does the LA Scene Measure Up (Literally) with NYC?
You know the tired old cliche about LA sprawl? It appears to be true about the city's art world.
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All You Really Need to Know About Gallery Girls
Yes, it's essentially Mean Girls in a gallery.
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Very Public Regrets
You might say we're a society of oversharers. Memoirs are our bestsellers these days, and ordinary people pour their hearts out in front of cameras on reality TV shows. Someone has had the bright idea to turn our penchant for confession into public art.
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Beyoncé Art Tumblr?
Gawker has discovered Beyoncé's tumblelog and writer Caity Weaver thinks it's art … or something.
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Required Reading
This week, decommissioning public art, Paula Cooper and Larry Gagosian speak, the mosaic man of the East Village, the Vancouver Art Gallery has a radical idea, Warhol's grave and more …
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How to Read International Art English
Have you ever read a press release — or even, say, the first line of a press release — for an art exhibition and promptly felt like you had no idea what just happened? Like a wave of vague descriptors and questionable nouns had washed over you, all if which were supposed to combine to create some so
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The Gallery of Lost Art
Although the art world — especially the contemporary one, where nearly everything has retail value — likes to preserve and maintain artworks as much as it can, it's inevitable that some pieces get lost along the way.
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Michigan Stats Suggest Every $1 Invested in the Arts Yields $51 for Economy
Yesterday's voter booth success definitely helps to ensure a more financially secure Detroit Institue of Arts, but you can be assured that its passage wasn't because of some innate sense of arts patronage among Michiganders but a victory based on educating voters about the facts.
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Boston Mural Proves to be "Rorschach Test for Idiots and Racists"
Last week, the Brazilian street art twins, Os Gemeos, unveiled their new mural on Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway at Dewey Square and Fox Boston couldn't resist suggesting the work portrayed some sort of controversial figure and like moths to a flame the xenophobes and anti-Muslim bigots c
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Brace Yourselves, Lady Gaga Goes ARTPOP
Lady Gaga awoke yesterday and calculated decided to share the name of her new album with the world … lucky us …