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We haven't been covering the humble home of artist Julian Schnabel, known as Palazzo Chupi, like others [http://ny.curbed.com/tags/palazzo-chupi] have but that's not to say we haven't been gawking at a distance trying to figure out WTF why the hell he made it.
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This week's Required Reading explores the restoration of earthquake-damaged Haitian murals, an archeological mystery in West Asia, the 18th C toilette tradition, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on pandrogeny, connecting the dots on Mona Lisa, the Banksy app, the year's worst first sentences, cool iPhone ca
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Are American art institutions engaged in a Manichean battle between exclusivity and access? Will this be settled with a mud wrestling match between Crystal Bridges benefactor Alice Walton and MoMA director Glenn Lowry? Please, oh please, say it will be.
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Will Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower get built? The initially 1,250 foot project has already had its crown knocked off and it is now slated to be 1,050 feet high but no word yet about the final design, according to the New York Observer this week …
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Artist William Powhida has taken to Twitter for his latest project, “Everyone We’ve Never Met (from memory and imagination),” and he explains, "In another effort to broaden the project and to make the ideas of 'Everyone' mean more than Sheboygan and vacationers from Chicago in a way that I can still
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Boston's Museum of Fine Art is asking visitors to donate so they can add the 42-foot-high, 10,000 pound, 2,400 piece "Lime Green Icicle Tower" sculpture that is a highlight of the current Dale Chihuly show.
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This story brings a tear to my eye: "Supporters of the campaign to recall Michigan Gov Rick Snyder are reporting they collected more than 5,000 signatures during the Ann Arbor Art Fair."
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This week, Geronimo's eye, classic New York art dealer profiles, did arts reporting save the Rose Art Museum, in defense of bare walls, Uffizi's new iPad app, artist suppression, Frederick Law Olmstead on the US South, Marshall McLuhan speaking to high school students (circa 1960s), a video tour of
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A golden nugget from James Kalm's Facebook profile page and the birth of a fantastic new term, "vaginal surround sound."
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We've been catching up on our reading at Hyperallergic HQ and came across this quote by Wafaa Bilal in the Dubai-based Brownbook magazine (Issue 25) about the state of performance art in West Asia …
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Dear Onion, will you please have my baby? Here is their latest brilliance … "Most visitors to the art jail … said they were grateful for the opportunity to see the prisoners, though some acknowledged … [it] was emotionally complicated for them."
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After a two weeks on the road, I'm back in Brooklyn and again at the helm of Hyperallergic.