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LOS ANGELES — It’s no secret that food is a no-fail come-on for an art opening. Food and drinks = sated audience ready to indulge the higher rungs of their hierarchy of needs. Last weekend, Los Angeles-based For Your Art hit on Los Angeles’ sweet spot with a 24-hour pop-up shop serving donuts from a
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A look at some of the unveiling of Art Hack Day at 319 Scholes.
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Tomorrow, the doors of 319 Scholes open for the public unveiling of the 48-hour projects that were given birth to during Art Hack Day at the East Williamsburg art/tech space.
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Thanks to the efforts of organizations such as Primary Flight and Wynwood Walls, the Wynwood district in Miami is undergoing a radical transformation through art.
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We decided to compile a list of some of the most notable street art from the area in 2011. This is not a comprehensive survey but a taste of some of the exciting work that has been appearing on the streets of our dear borough.
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There is nothing quite like the feeling of being a tourist in a new country, and stumbling into a city or neighborhood there that makes you feel like a tourist in a completely different country. It's a bit like a person who visits New York City for the first time and wanders into Chinatown — that sm
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Graffiti in Rio de Janerio is some of the most festive, whimsical and lighthearted graffiti I’ve seen anywhere. Though the street art feels like it’s being taken seriously, the pervasive style is bold, playful, colorful, and full of bizarre scenes, stylized characters and undecipherable situations.
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On a recent vacation to South America, I accidently became lost in the middle of Buenos Aires. Separated from my partner who had the maps, money, hotel name and address, not to mention a command of the native language, I panicked.
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MIAMI — With Soutine in mind, and the world’s best galleries around me, I culled a few great works by mostly 1950s US artists that have Soutine in mind.
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MIAMI — Every year art watchers see trends. Many of these are more about the commentator's interests and fixations than anything real. This year, I kept seeing works by great Uruguayan modernist Joaquín Torres García.
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MANILA, Philippines — As is so often said about Chongqing, you've never heard of it, but with 30 million people and rising, it's one of the largest municipalities in the world (for perspective, all of New York state has some 20 million people). Located in the heart of southwest China, a former city
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This past weekend I was in St. Petersburg, Russia for the "Art & Reality" conference. During that trip I had the pleasure of taking some time off to visit the world-renowed Hermitage museum. For my first post about the Hermitage, I wanted to post a series of images of interiors that give a sense of