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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 …
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Required Reading
This week, a lost Raphael may be found, Ai Weiwei gives London Olympics a thumbs up, the Tea Party's favorite artist, Iran's amazing modern and contemporary art collections and more.
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Overheard in the Art World
This week we wandered through NADA Hudson and a few museums to examine the man's handy work and to learn that not all the employees know what's happening upstairs.
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Planning the Culture of Chicago
CHICAGO — The draft of the new Chicago Cultural Plan was officially released a week ago. It’s the penultimate step in a process that began in February, and which will end in the fall of 2012 with the release of the final recommendations.
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Jeff Koons' Pseudo-Spiritual Explanation of Art on Colbert Nation
Koons was on Colbert last night and his discussion of art came across as pseudo-spiritual at best.
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Sustainable Buddhas Made of Cardboard
LOS ANGELES —Travel around East and Southeast Asia enough and you'll invariably come across at least one big Buddha. Cut from stone or marble or any other substantive material, they dominate the room with their presence. Then there's Kobe-based sculptor Yuji Honbori.
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Six Things I Learned — and One I Didn’t — from Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
Last week, I trekked up to Lincoln Center to see part of The Clock, Christian Marclay's film collage that has had the art world's knickers in a twist for about a year and a half now.