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The Sensory Worlds of Memory
TORONTO — Lost in the Memory Palace sticks with you long after you leave the museum. It crawls under your skin and creeps into your head. Don’t be surprised if it even starts popping up in your dreams.
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A New Documentary Casts the Barkeep as Artist
CINCINNATI — Some say bartenders are artists for the way they slowly pour their homemade grenadine into a glass creating layers of alternating colors. Others insist they’re craftsmen and craftswomen; choosing the label of "mixologist" in recognition of their recipe skills.
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Beyond the Creep Factor: Postmortem Photography as Remembrance
With the arrival of accessible photography came a developed culture of portraiture for not just the living, but the dead. Up until the 1830s with the creation of the daguerrotype, creating an image for remembrance of your loved ones was reserved for the rich, who could commission paintings. Yet with
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Ventiko's Otherworldly Symbolism #NSFW
Ventiko just had her first Chelsea solo show at the Coohaus gallery, VENTIKO: The Other World, which ran until May 21st and exhibited eight of the young photographer’s works. Beginning last Saturday, she is being featured in a group show called Toxicity, curated by Aimee Hertog at the Williamsburg A
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A New World Order for Photography
The notion of order is really rather muddled: as we put things together to make sense of them, we also surrender some of their meaning. And by its nature, order is perpetually shifting; rules are imposed, then they are broken, reconfigured. This paradox is at the heart of the International Center of
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In Channa Horwitz’s Orange Grid
LOS ANGELES — There are generally two favored narrative arcs used to describe an artist’s life. There is the story of the hot young art star who takes the art world by storm with new ideas and a mediagenic personality. And there is the solitary artist, who works quietly for years, before finding suc
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A Guerrilla Registry of Historic Places Pops Up in Brooklyn
For a borough with a dense and diverse history, Brooklyn doesn't have much in the way of public historic recognition. Artist Anna Robinson-Sweet's current installation project adds historic plaques around the borough, to highlight what has been forgotten.
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A Place to Rest Your Internet-Weary Head
CHICAGO — When I was but a wee young twin, a powerful psychic told me that I should keep a dream journal. I never forgot that moment, because it came to me in a dream during a wonderful evening of REM-induced magic. That psychic reappeared to me one day in the form of the tumblr blog tag #psychic mo
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Venturing Beyond the White Box in Bushwick
Stocked with Havarti cubes and iced kegs, Bushwick artists swept up and opened their doors to the public this weekend for the 2013 Bushwick Open Studios (BOS). Air-conditioned workspaces became premium real estate as the festival’s seventh incarnation, hosted by nonprofit Arts in Bushwick, welcomed
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Exploring the Southern Edge of Bushwick Open Studios
There aren't as many outskirts to Bushwick Open Studios as there once were. The 2013 edition was brimming even at the very edges of designated "Bushwick," which really oozes over into the adjacent East Williamsburg and Ridgewood, though it seems steadfast in not stepping over the Broadway line to Be
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In Bushwick, Two Takes on 3-D Modeling
One type of artwork Bushwick probably does not need more of these days is abstract painting. Another type it may or may not need more of is work in 3-D imaging and modeling (discuss). But two artists who use this medium in very different ways are being presented at gallery spaces near each other in
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A Bushwick Warehouse Filled with Earnest and Honest Sculpture
There are a lot of studios in Bushwick, and a lot of white boxes and apartment galleries, too. If you need a break from any or all of those, I recommend venturing out to 299 Meserole Street, where recent alumni of Virginia Commonwealth University's Sculpture and Extended Media MFA program have taken