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Until an artist version of Cribs is invented, the best way we can get inside an artist's life and work is to get inside their studios. Photographs of artists in their studios are kind of like snapshots of an artistic career, a whole body of work compressed into a single room. A working and living sp
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The LA Times reports that chances look good for Banksy's film Exit Through the Gift Shop to receive a nomination for an Oscar, completely destroying any ideas that Banksy is some kind of anti-establishment bandit. I'm just surprised that Banksy could pull off going even more mainstream than he alrea
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Youtube is a surprisingly excellent place to see art, and not just the latest glitchy gif set your neighbor came up with. The site is full of historical performance videos, all just a click away. One of the greats is Martha Rosler's performance “Semiotics of the Kitchen” (1975), in which the artist
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Frank Gehry spoke with New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger at 92Y on October 13. Check out this video for the highlights of their conversation, including some inside info on Gehry's new New York City Beekman Tower.
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Odds are, you're probably doing some traveling in 2011. If you've got places to go, we've got art for you to check out. From Gerhard Richter's retrospective at the Tate to an exhibition of Gertrude Stein's personal collection in San Francisco, here are five exhibitions outside of New York to look fo
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It's the New Year all over again, and aside from going out and partying, there's not much in the New Year to look forward to yet. I'm finding myself starting at empty calendar and wondering what to fill it up with. Why not schedule in some art? It's never to early to start that exhibition calendar g
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Ever wanted to be a Chinese red soldier that shoots fireballs instead of spouting slogans, and battles aliens instead of Nationalists? I know, me too. Finally, we all have a chance to play out our CCP fantasies with Feng Mengbo's epic, historicizing video game “Long March: Restart” (2008), now on vi
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Earlier this month, I sent out a call for comments on #Rank [http://www.hashtagclass.com/], a project created by artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton, who were the masterminds behind #Class (Winkleman Gallery, February 2010). The following are the responses we received from across the country
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New York City was originally a colony of the Dutch, so maybe it's no coincidence that the aftermath of Sunday and Monday's storm put me in mind of some Netherland Baroque landscapes. Here's Hendrick Avercamp's 1608 “Winter Landscape with Iceskaters”. Click through for some more of my favorite winter
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This video, "Art Money" was created by San Francisco-based artist Spencer Keeton Cunningham [http://spencercunningham.com] & Erlin Geffrard as one part of "an on going work in progress of contemporary art videos." The music is by Kool Kid Kreyola and Spencer Keeton Cunningham. This is all obviously
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San Francisco Rainbow over the Bay Bridge [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5248/5284998586_1cb98ba7d0_z.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/redpilotmedia/5284998586/ This stunning photo was taken by photographer and Bay Area tech host Lisa Bethany. She has blogged a step-by-step guide on how she create
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The short answer is probably not [http://artmeetslaw.blogspot.com/2010/12/finally-serious-response-to.html] under US law but we're not sure under Canadian law.