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PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND — Ever since Pollock splattered his ego onto a canvas in the 1950s, a decided geographical shift across the Atlantic occurred — Europe lost its ruling power as center of the art world and New York stepped into it shoes as the new authoritative hub of contemporary art. Yet, t
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Robert Melee is known for his sculpture and multimedia installations that, with heavy doses of nostalgia and grit, poke and prod our human experiences. His latest show, Triscuit Obfuscation, is currently on view at Andrew Krepps Gallery in Chelsea. His sculptures are kind of ramshackle and oozy in a
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Approaching Fulton Landing from the East River Jean Nouvel's new pavilion for Jane's Carousel is less impressive than I was expecting. The squat box made of what I initially thought was transparent glass and sea-foam green metal appears dwarfed by the massive Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges that brac
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LOS ANGELES – The inside of Honor Fraser, the Los Angeles gallery now showing artist and designer KAWS’s new solo exhibition Hold the Line, must feel far away from the New York City bus stops and phone booths of the late 1990s.
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Winkleman gallery’s newest exhibition Cool Guys Like You by Jennifer Dalton is a must see. You should go and get a 25 cent temporary tattoo, and check out her disarming info graphics about media talk show media coverage.What really excited me though wasn’t the headliner, but the playful, color blast
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ISTANBUL — Istanbul has launched a full frontal assault to claim its place amongst rising art centers by hosting the complex and provocative Istanbul Biennial, as well as a massive all-inclusive history of the city's female artists, Dream and Reality – Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turk
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Walking through Yutaka Sone’s Islands exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, I was reminded of a Victorian greenhouse. If the artist, judging by his interviews, seems to feel his work is postmodern, it appears suprisingly pre-modern to me as the objects feel precious and exotic, like the remnants of s
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Mana Contemporary and the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation have a meticulous show of photorealist artwork, titled Our Own Directions. The exhibition, on view from now until January 2012, features painting, sculpture and photography from the private collection of Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel.
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1107 Manhattan Avenue is the current exhibition at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery. The show, which opened last Friday, is a geographical/historical survey of work produced in an artistically rich studio building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn from which the show takes its name.
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Viewing a horde of 3D printers solemnly forming the same sterile shapes may have put me in a regressed mental state, but the sight of gleeful children swinging towards sheets of water that vanished right before contact struck me as beautiful. The aptly named "Waterfall Swing" by Dash 7 Design was th
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I’ve been a pretty huge fan of sculptor Michelle Lopez ever since her first show at the Simon Preston gallery on the Lower east side. When I found out a couple weeks ago about her impending second solo show at the gallery, I was pretty nervous. Granted, I shouldn’t have been, but let neurotic bygone
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On a rainy Thursday in Chelsea, I could hear the cast of the Real Housewives screeching in horror and running for their emergency stash of botox as I walked through visual artist and alternative space powerhouse Martha Wilson's new exhibition I have become my own worst fear at PPOW Gallery. Characte