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From Poseurs to Pros: Artists and Their Models
The model is the message in Artists and Their Models, an exhibition currently on view at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art in Washington.
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A Radical '70s Mural Resurfaces ... Next to a Panda Express
LOS ANGELES — I entered UCLA's Ackerman Student Union hoping to blend in with the student body, find my way to a recently uncovered mural, and document the public's reactions with an inconspicuous pinhole camera. But the building is a maze of chain eateries. And, after I pass a Carl's Jr. for the se
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The Amazing Erotic Art of Dorothy Iannone
As New York Times art critic Roberta Smith has written, we live in the age of the art revival — a time when all sorts of artists are being recovered from their forgotten corners and brought into the art-world limelight.
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Behind-the-scenes of Bushwick Art at 56 Bogart
Crowds flocked this Saturday to 56 Bogart Street, one of the main stops on the Bushwick Open Studios circuit.
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Seeking Harmony at Storm King
This season in Mountainville, New York, two different artists are on view who aim for harmony with the meandering landscapes of Storm King Art Center.
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What Does Kara Walker's Sugary Sphinx Tell Us?
One of the season's most anticipated art events will finally open to the public tomorrow. Kara Walker's "A Subtlety," aka the "Marvelous Sugar Baby," is the renowned artist's first public artwork.
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Folly on the Roof of the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently opened the second in a series of commissions for its rooftop garden overlooking Central Park.
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The Next Best Thing: Photos from The Lost Lectures NY
Last Friday's The Lost Lectures New York was an overwhelming success in our book.
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New York City Subway Maps Across Time
Municipal signage and schematics, as design firm Pentagram's recent work on New York's beach and parking signage attests, can play a significant role in (re)defining the character of urban space.
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Highlights From the PAD/D Archive
A look at the contents of the large PAD/D Archive at MoMA QNS.
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Put Texas Quail Rigs in the Whitney Biennial
There are no Texas quail rigs in the Whitney Biennial, but then again New York casts a long shadow of bullshit over American aesthetics, its credentialed scenesters busy strip-mining consumer culture to produce elaborate corporate pranks.
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Meet the Afronauts
In the 1960s, while the United States and the Soviet Union were playing out their battle of who would make it to the moon first and so dominate the galactic skies, a former high school teacher in Zambia decided his country needed a space program.