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This week, street art blows in North Africa, discussing the Eames design legacy, the future of the books, Chomsky on #OccupyWallStreet, Ed Winkleman on cartels, de Kooning's studio in 1982 and Steve Jobs.
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Proenza Schouler Meets Harmony Korine with Questionable Results (And Possibly Pedophilia)
What happens when the suave gentlemen of the New York-based womenswear and accessories brand Proenza Schouler cross paths with the provocative trash-humping auteur Harmony Korine? This shit, apparently.
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Before Occupy Wall Street, Artforum Remembers There Was Asco
Usually associated with long-winded art historical articles and page after page of gallery ads, Artforum made an unexpected but exciting move in their October issue by placing Asco, a politically radical Chicano artist collective from the 1970s on the cover. Perhaps igniting a real art historical in
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#OccupyWallStreet Journal Map Calls Mark di Suvero's "Joie de Vivre" Weird
Liza Eliano and I stopped by Occupy Wall Street yesterday and we picked up a copy of the first edition of the Occupied Wall Street Journal. A four-page broadsheet, the back had a funny map marking that made us laugh out loud. "Art / Signs" are marked with a ♥ but Abstract Expressionist sculptor Mark
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99% of the Art World
If some in the art world are the 1%, most of us are the other 99%. [We Are the 99 Percent [http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/post/11037150025] tumblelog]
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Scrutiny of Arkansas's Rich New American Art Museum Begins
Let's all agree on one thing, if you have to use the term "world-class" then you probably aren't, but that's not to say that Arkansas's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art isn't going to make a splash next month when it opens in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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Required Reading
This week … Warhol's Headline works, a 2003 interview with Sol LeWitt, Twitter paintings by Evan Roth, Kapoor & Isozaki partner for an inflatable concert hall, world's earliest Christian inscription is identified, Gagosian's Madison Ave shop closes, NY pics from 1974, color TV spots from the 1960s a
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A Question of Community and Conversations About Community: Creative Time's Summit
Last Friday, I attended Creative Time’s third annual progressive social practice-centered summit, this year held in conjunction with their Living As Form exhibition. The summit was a day-long affair, stuffed to the gills with presentations about current examples of the intersections of art and polit
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Is Australian Aboriginal Art Part of the African Diaspora?
Recently, I received a press release from the Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) heralding their new show, Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art. My first reaction was astonishment. I didn't understand how Australian Aboriginal
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Veterans of the New York School Reflect on the 1950s
The archival footage features a number of artists in the New York school (Alcopley, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joe Stefanelli, John Stephan, Robert Richenburg and Will Barnet) discussing life in New York's 1950s art world.
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Required Reading
This week's edition focuses on the de Kooning retrospective at MoMA, some final essays on the 9/11 Museum, an endangered mural in Manhattan, the timeline design of Facebook and Instagram as art.
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Cai Guo-Qiang Is Running on Empty
PROVIDENCE, RI — Cai Guo-Qiang’s Move Along, Nothing to See Here opened last Friday at the Cohen Gallery at Brown University in Rhode Island. The inaugural event for Brown’s “Year of China,” the exhibit includes work common to Cai’s oeuvre. The main sculptural work of the show, "Moving Along Nothing