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Between the Sheets: Art and Books at The Hole
One of the most pleasant surprises to pop out of the August doldrums is Summer Reading at The Hole — particularly for the lemonade that the gallery has made out of its lemon of a space.
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Remix the Urban Jungle in the Cloud
I suspect most of us take the designs of our cities and streets for granted, at least when they're working the way we want them to. But planning a single street requires myriad decisions. A nifty new web app called Streetmix, made by the current fellows of Code for America, lets you think about and
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Munch: More Than The Scream
OSLO — It’s everywhere in Oslo: greeting you at the airport and hanging in the train station, on billboards and in gift shops. It is perhaps the most famous art image of the twentieth century, and Norway is celebrating what would be the 150th birthday of its creator. Even when Edvard Munch (1863-194
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Spanish Collective Protests Corruption With Monument to Laundering
The Madrid art collective Luzinterruptus has crafted a satirical public sculpture to protest the corrupt allocation of 3.96 million Euros ($5.3 million) to shift a Christopher Columbus statue a few meters in a public square.
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Participating in Sound, Interacting With Noise
This month, sound art in New York continues to bloom in various locations throughout the city. First up was “Soundings: A Contemporary Score” at MOMA, then came Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Voice Tunnel.” Residency Unlimited, which holds residencies for international artists, jumped into the fray by host
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Take Your Picture with an Oversize Neosurrealist Dream Head
CHICAGO — Amanda Ross-Ho's giant gray mannequin head is a neosurrealist’s dream come true. Resting comfortably in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, it looks as if caught in preparation for use in a Man Ray photogram. Ross-Ho's site-specific installation THE CHARACTER AND SHAPE OF ILLU
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Giving a Voice to a Usually Off-Limits Tunnel
A whole seven blocks of subterranean Manhattan is being closed off for a pedestrian-only art installation that turns a tunnel into a pulsing light and sound experience.
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The Rustic, Intricate Fantasy of Enrique Martínez Celaya
SANTA FE, New Mexico — This massive, intricate fantasy of high art and kitsch, hand-made things and found objects, snaps together tighter than an Ikea bookshelf.
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The Inimitable and Influential Art of Catherine Murphy
I have been following Catherine Murphy since 1980, when I first saw her work at Xavier Fourcade. My interests are purely selfish: she is uncompromising in ways that I admire, which is to say she is not dogmatic. Always in hot pursuit of what she sees — subjects so commonplace and underfoot that othe
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Margins of Error: Chelsea Light Moving
From the mid-’80s to the late ’00s, every few years Sonic Youth would come out with an excellent album. Their consistency and reliability are very nearly unmatched by anybody else in music: they have fifteen in total, well over half of which are worth owning. For their many fans, it became normal to
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Conspicuously Absent: When Art Goes Undercover
Even in today’s anything-goes environment, it’s not all that common to encounter a work of art that hews so closely to the mundane that it risks not being recognized as art at all. Let alone two or three in a single show. But that’s the case with Conspicuous Unusable, a group exhibition at Miguel Ab
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What Is Hip-Hop Feminism?
Short answer: it's awesome. And it's currently on view at Cue Art Foundation. Curated by Katie Cercone, the exhibition Goddess Clap Back: Hip-Hop Feminism in Art brings together various artists who, in their work, subvert the tropes of mainstream hip-hop: the unabashed consumerism and celebrity wors