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Anton van Dalen’s Valuable Lessons
Using simple means, often just pencil and paper, van Dalen has made careful, painstaking images of cyborgs, pigeons, and war machines.
PPOW Gallery
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In Judith Linhares’s Sinless World
Linhares has become a pioneer who paved the way for a generation of women artists to develop their own alternative worlds.
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Examining the Underbelly of US Culture: Gun Violence, White Supremacy, and Greed
Sandow Birk’s investigation of US culture and politics is unusual in that its own explicit politics are not overly didactic — a difficult line to walk successfully.
Interview
Charlie Ahearn on Documenting the Rise of Hip-Hop
Charlie Ahearn talks about his new work and memories of the beginnings of hip-hop ahead of his exhibition at P.P.O.W. Gallery and movie screening at Metrograph.
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Strong Solo Booths, Leo Lookalikes, and Plenty of Trends at Frieze New York
From an increasingly diversified roster of galleries to a surprising slew of rock art, the mega-fair is impressively eclectic this year.
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Life and Death in Portia Munson's Garden
The centerpiece of her new exhibition at PPOW is "The Garden" (1996–98), a kaleidoscopic, room-filling installation housing hundreds if not thousands of artificial flowers under a canopy of sewn together flower print dresses.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
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Encyclopedias Transformed into Dazzling, Dada-Inspired Sculptures
The title of artist Brian Dettmer's Dodo Data Dada, showing at PPOW, sounds like cute alliterative nonsense until you realize it's a clever description of the work on view: Sculptures made of old encyclopedias, a medium nearing extinction, with their pages of data carved into intricate photomontages
Interview
Artist Anton van Dalen on the East Village, Saul Steinberg, and Pigeon Keeping
Next time you’re walking through the East Village, take a moment to look up at the skies over Tompkins Square Park. You might just spot Anton van Dalen’s flock of snow-white pigeons. The artist, who first learned to rear the birds at the age of twelve, is one of the few remaining pigeon keepers in L
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Perverting the Prescriptions of Womanhood
The Woman Destroyed, currently on view at PPOW Gallery, takes as its organizing theme the 1967 Simone de Beauvoir book of the same title, comprised of three stories that explore the personal crises of middle-aged and aging women.
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Soylent, a Donkey, and Even Some Good Art: A Frieze New York Diary
1pm: The press preview for Frieze New York 2016 on Randall's Island begins! Or so they say. I am power walking out the door of my office in Williamsburg.
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In Martha Wilson’s New Photo Works, Feminism Meets the Absurd
What do women want?