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Guarding Jeff Koons
"Is it about, that the guards matter? Or is it about the matter of the guards … And we thought it's basically about both those things."
Photo Essays
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Exploring Greenpoint, Studio by Studio
Greenpoint Open Studios is an annual event offering an intimate look at the diverse and thriving art scene in North Brooklyn. This year, 265 artists opened their doors for two full days in locations spread across the neighborhood.
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An Excursion to the Past as You've Never Imagined It
With a mission to show that the past wasn't always as we now envision it to be, Chris Wild's Retronaut has been compiling curiosities of vintage photography and other archives online.
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Artists Mobilize to Capture Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement in Pen and Ink
Art has played a role in the Umbrella Movement since day one, from public art installations like Stand By You: ‘Add Oil’ Machine to a Facebook competition to design the movement’s logo.
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From Amazon Warrior to Angel of Mercy: The Many Faces of the Nurse
Whether angel on the battlefield or vixen of the hospital ward, the depiction of the nurse has changed over time to reflect different perceptions on gender, health, and medicine.
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A Survey of Art from Across Brooklyn
Today, the Brooklyn Museum held a preview for Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, a survey of more than 100 artworks by 35 artists (or artist groups) who live or work in Brooklyn.
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Among the Zines at the NY Art Book Fair
The New York Art Book Fair is an open terrain, an annual zone that allows for a wide degree of experimentation. I especially wanted to take a thorough look at the zine tent this year, presented as XE(ROX) & PAPERS + SCISSORS, and spin in the blooming meadow like Julie Andrews.
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The Autobiography of Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur
GWANGJU, South Korea — I have never been to South Korea before. Jessica Morgan warned that it would be hot and sweaty and of course Gwangju was exactly that — tropical!
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Artists' Mannequins Through the Centuries
Gustave Courbet claimed to paint only “real and existing things,” yet an 1864 photograph of his studio suggests otherwise.
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Looking at Life Inside a Skyscraper-Turned-Squat
In a little under a decade, the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, or “Tower of David,” in Caracas, Venezuela, has achieved almost mythical status. After being dreamed up by billionaire David Brillembourg in 1990, construction halted on the building in 1994, when a third of the country’s banks failed.
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The Museum at "the Beginning of America"
Dubbed “the beginning of America” by locals, the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Maine is situated at the easternmost point of the continental United States.
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Mundane Horror in Abandoned Stasi Spaces
As we creep up on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989), some of the remains of the oppressive Ministry for State Security, aka the Stasi, remain as if in their own time capsule.