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Sophie Calle Brings Her Baggage to New Orleans (Prospect 2 Spotlight)
Sophie Calle moves into New Orleans' 1850 House for her Prospect 2 installation and brings dozens of objects and stories with her — with mixed results.
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Occupied With My Thoughts
Last Tuesday I made plans with a friend to visit Bluestockings, the bookstore on Allen Street in Manhattan, for the opening of OCCUPIED: Occupy Wall Street Art Show, featuring “Art and Culture from and for the 99%.”
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Re-Kitschifying a New Orleans Post-modern Icon (Prospect 2 Spotlight)
NEW ORLEANS — The Piazza d'Italia generally isn't high on many people's lists of Things To See And Do In New Orleans; in fact, I'd guess that most of the tourists who stumble across it do so while getting lost on their way to or from the nearby Harrah's casino or Hilton Riverfront. They probably no
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Boogieing Back to the 60s at Williamsburg 2nd Friday
Are the 60s still cool? Williamsburg says yes. This month’s 2nd Friday event convinced me that some things will never go out of style. For example, hot chocolate from Ella Cafe on a crisp November evening and the light sweet taste of cotton candy, thanks to the boutique and gallery Cotton Candy Mach
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Always Here, Always Queer and Art History Is Starting to Get Used To It
While at the landmark exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, I realized I had to start my review with a statement that will look simple and quite possibly stupid: Hide/Seek is more than David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly."
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A Sculpture Show With Too Much Twin Peaks Not Enough Freaks
Sanford Biggers new exhibition, Cosmic Voodoo Circus, is currently on view at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City. Curated by Mary Ceruti, the executive director and chief curator of the institution, the exhibition is a polite — if not enigmatic — tableau. The work is visually striking, but sti
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Work of Art Recap: Hitting Da Streets, Tiger Penises
OMG guys, the artistes have arrived in Brooklyn. China Chow announces the challenge. They artists have to do street art! In Williamsburg! So hood. It’s a team challenge, too. Apparently art is the new Quidditch.
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Traveling the Visual Highway
Day trips beyond New York City for visual art can feel decadent, especially with all the spectacular shows we don’t have time to see. And although it might be a small hassle to get there, the Brant Foundation’s current solo show of David Altmejd is really worth every minute of the trip to Greenwich,
Books
De-stress and Deconstruction of Books
Equally wild and soft, the book art of UK artist Louisa Boyd is an animated discourse on the distress and destruction of analog media. She breaks and reconstructs books into sculpture, wondering loudly with the rest of us, what’s going on with the world of print? In a book lover’s nightmares, librar
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Lester Johnson’s Last Paintings
Lester Johnson (1919 – 2010) remains a cult figure, particularly for those who care about painting, which, let’s face it, is a cult made up of warring factions. Johnson is a full-fledged member of the faction to which the terms “painterly,” “expressionist,” and “figurative” have accrued, but which a
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Exploring this Past Weekend's Celeste Prize and Brooklyn Open Studios
If ever there was an argument for me to get over my fear of biking in Brooklyn, it was Saturday's Brooklyn Open Studios, held in conjunction with the 2011 Celeste Prize exhibitions at the Invisible Dog. The 35 participating artists were sprawled across the borough, from Sunset Park to Bushwick and f
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An Art-fueled Rebuttal to the Tea Party
The project "Art Party" by Bob and Roberta Smith might have been planned in the past, yet it jabs a ramshackle kick straight into the miasma of current water cooler art talk.