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MANILA, PHILIPPINES — What has the response to Ai Weiwei's tax case been like in China? We've seen the thrilling surge of netizens lending over a million dollars to the artist, and he recently made a deposit while he contests the bill. The artist has returned to Twitter, posting actively once more.
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Oh, brother. Artist Scott LoBaido is "disgusted by the constant bashing of Catholicism" by a "publicly funded institute," so he decided to haul his painting of a naked Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman and a toilet to said institution and filmed it! No word on his thoughts about the constant ba
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This week's prescription is full of exciting show openings that will have you running around like a feverish art fanatic. We should mention that is a potential side effect.
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Holy shit, I can't believe how bad someone who shows at Gagosian can be. Honestly, WTF!?!?! I love embracing artists of all stripes but this dude essentially makes high-brow-ish fan art.
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Secret Project Robot hosted the 6th annual Prints Gone Wild fair November 4 and 5 in their new location in Bushwick.
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I've got the Mixel bug. Since I logged onto the image creating site, I've been enjoying the zany energy of this iPad-based collage system and all that it offers. I thought I'd have some fun and try creating collages based on some of the biggest art stories of the last week or so. Here's my Mixel-ed
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This week, how a Caravaggio becomes "discovered" and evaluated, Christo gets the green light for Colorado, artists who seek out their harshest critics, Terence Conran, erasing a Chris Martin, escaping the digital world, Occupy Miami art schools, street art in Iran and is politics performance art?
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Brooklyn art gallery hopping can be challenging for the uninitiated who need the comfort of neat grids and clearly numbered streets to find their way around. My first advice, "Stay in Manhattan, we don't want you here," but if you refuse to listent then may I suggest the new "Art & Absinthe Guide to
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Anyone who loves the funny pages will know the work of Bill Keane, who is best remembered for Family Circus, a long running cartoon series that celebrated family life and inspired many spoofs that were equally funny (even if some were much more demented, like Dysfuntional Family Circus, or really ph
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Here we go again. Almost a year after the controversy at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Catholic groups in New York have started to raise alarm over David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly" (1986-7) that will appear in the Brooklyn version of Hide/Seek.
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Get out the syringe, it's time for your shot of art for the week. We promise it won't be painful. This week the medicine comes in the form of museum exhibitions both big and small, including Sherrie Levine's retrospective at the Whitney, the much anticipated opening of the Met's Islamic wing, and ro
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Last week, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published an image of Mohammad on its cover saying, "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" Sadly, some right-wing muslim zealots firebombed the headquarters of the magazine, but don't think that shut up the publication. No siree, this week t