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Is America Tanking in Venice? [UPDATE]

Love it or hate it, Allora & Calzadilla's entry to the US Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale is a showstopper perfectly tuned for the art world's version of the Olympics.

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Digging Up the Roses on Park Avenue

This week, Will Ryman's "The Roses" installation along Park Avenue are saying bye bye. But when I spotted them yesterday all dug up with their "roots" exposed, I thought it somehow completed the work.

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Style Warz: Manhattan Ballet Shoes vs Brooklyn Sneakers

I love aesthetic battles and I secretly miss the war of subcultures (through style, of course) that was a staple of the late 20th C. Think mods vs punks, but in a Manhattan (ballet shoes, of course) vs. Brooklyn (sneakers, wassup) kinda way. I spotted this today and it stopped me in my tracks. Me li

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Steve Martin Victim to German Art Forgery Ring

In a twist strangely echoed by the actor's recent art-world novel An Object of Beauty, Der Spiegel reports that Steve Martin is the victim of a German art forgery ring. Martin purchased what he thought was Heinrich Campendonk's “Landscape With Horses” (1915) for $850,000. Turns out, the painting was

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Lindsay Lohan Stars in Art Video, World Doesn't End

Richard Philips might be better known in the art world as a photorealist painter, but the painter just turned videographer with an art project-cum-advertisement for celebrity and tabloid icon Lindsay Lohan. The work is “a 90-second ad for her more sober self,” according to Linda Yablonsky at T Magaz

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NY Museum Attendance & Twitter Followers

@MuseumNerd, that anonymous art personality on Twitter, has blogged an interesting graphic that lists the attendance to New York museums, their Twitter following, and how they measure up.

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Required Reading

Jeff Koons's art collection, thoughts on LA MOCA's questionable art history, Invader in Paris, a tour of the Calatrava building in Milwaukee, something fishy about Warhol, iPhone photography and corporate culture and the US government … all on this week's Required Reading.

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Not as Famous, or Lesser-known Relatives of Well-known Artists

Dik F. Liu is a Williamsburg-based artist who has compiled a fascinating list on his Facebook profile page of what he has termed the "Not as Famous - Lesser known relatives of well-known artists." He has allowed us to publish a number of the gems he's found. Love triangles, same-sex spouses, illegit

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Postmodern Safe House Packs Itself Up

Your day in architectural GIFs: this home, designed by Polish architecture firm KWK Promes, transforms from luxury villa into tightly sealed black box, the ultimate safe house. The “Safe House”, completed in 2009, would be the ultimate for any Bond villain.

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New SFMOMA Building Kind of Looks Like a Glacier

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art just unveiled the designs for their new building, and it looks like ... a granite glacier fit into a skinny city block? Developed by Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta, the expansion will add over 225,000 square feet the the museum.

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Study: Artsy Men Are Happier

A study suggests that men who enjoy cultural activities and attend museums are happier [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43144425/ns/health-behavior/]. The study suggests the same isn't true for women. No word if the benefits extend to art blog readers.

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A Rainy Kind of Architecture Photography

You know what the weather's been like in NYC this week: clouds, rain, more clouds, more rain. Sucks, but photographer and writer Madeleine DiGangi finds inspiration in the wet weather. Her photos show the flip side of urban architecture — buildings reflected in the city's puddles pooling on streets