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Waste Not: One Artist’s Rules of the Game
You could look at Environmental Service’s exhibition, What is Yours is Mine, as a maximalist spin on Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (1953). But you’d be wrong.
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One Artist's Attempt to Break into Show Biz and the Art World in One Fell Swoop
Isha is a cinematic work-in-progress both literally and figuratively. Recently a 15-minute screening, as well as actual location shoot happened back-to-back at Long Island City’s Clocktower Gallery as part of the ongoing How Much Do I Owe You? exhibition. It’s a ballsey attempt by Indian writer/dire
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Rekindling the Legacy of a Puerto Rican Painter
When the little-known artist Richard Pagán died in 1989, he was at the precipice of a promising artistic career. Pagán had just recently become the first Puerto Rican to win the Pollock-Krasner Foundation's Jackson Pollock Award for his large expressionist canvases, and his circle of friends include
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Male Sexuality, Recast in Retro Surroundings #NSFW
Next to Baruch College on East 25th street is the intriguing red-lit entrance of The Carlton Arms Hotel. The check-in desk sits in a foyer that is a feat of spectacular kitsch excess — think the Scharf Shack and Pewee’s Playhouse rolled into one. The hotel, which has the zany energy and personality
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Ragnar Kjartansson: The Artist as Clown
The fool, or jester, or clown is a well-established archetype in Western culture. We are taught that jesters provided entertainment for monarchs, prattling around in brightly colored costumes, poking fun at the court milieu while criticizing their masters and mistresses through their satire. The art
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All the Struggle of Being an Artist, in a Video Game
"Art Game" is a relatively recent coinage that can refer to a very artistic video game — Flower, for example. But it's also the title of indie developer Pippin Barr's latest creation, which takes its name extremely literally. Barr has turned the art world into a video game.
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Visionary Art Unstuck in Time to Diagram the Metaphysics of the Universe
Most artists wouldn't take on the staggering task of illustrating the end of the universe for their first major work, but then, most artists aren't as driven in capturing the cosmic as Paul Laffoley. It was back in 1965 when he embarked on his artistic journey of diagramming the mystical and transce
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What Happened at Les Ballets de Faile?
Last Friday's launch of the New York City Ballet Art Series was a confusing affair. I was not the only person to arrive at Lincoln Center expecting that art collective Faile's "collaboration" with the New York City Ballet would be more than lobby art.
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A Story of Love in Athens
GÖTEBORG, Sweden — It should be said that this post is a personal one. That's because Josefine Camitz is a deeply sensitive young filmmaker whose work is focused solely and seriously on the personal, in all its dimensions.
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What Can Art Museums Learn from the New Museum of Mathematics?
The new Museum of Mathematics, or MoMath, provides an interactive introduction to mathematical concepts through a series of hands-on, kinetic exhibits that draw in children and their families. The two-story museum, located on the north side of Madison Square Park, is built around a series of didacti
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What Is It About Pageantry That We Love So Much? (On Roger Brown and Julian Schnabel)
Roger Brown (1941–1997) died a decade after his retrospective opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (August 13, 1987–October 18, 1987), and traveled to three other museums, none of which were on the East Coast or in a densely populated urban center. More surprising, t
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Dispatches from Hell: Nancy Spero’s Cruel Beauty
Nancy Spero died in 2009 at the age of 83. The current exhibition of her hand-printed collages from the 1980s and 1990s, From Victimage to Liberation, at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea, is the first show in New York to focus on her work since her death.