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Hermann Nitsch's performance at Mike Weiss Gallery on February 15th and 16th was a historical moment, summoning the exuberance of his context while disintegrating the mystery shrouding his practice. After stalking Nitsch's every movement for close to fourteen hours, the legend was humanized. Yes, th
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Scott Blake's rectangular, black two-inch wide and one-inch tall flipbook looks pretty harmless. It's small enough to fit in a pocket and has two normal, plastic covers bound by staples. The shock comes on the first flip through the book: it presents a moving image of the airplane hitting the second
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The Bushwick art community celebrated Beat Nite last Friday, and the all-night event was a great way to showcase all the good things going on in this burgeoning region of Brooklyn. Ten art spaces, ranging from more formal gallery spaces to converted living rooms, all stayed open late to welcome the
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Meg Hitchcock spent 135 hours gluing letters on the wall, floor and ceiling of the Famous Accountants gallery in Bushwick. She adhered them one-by one and side-by-side. They form a cord that twists around and eventually intertwines, it weaves itself into a thick rope of words, which spells out the e
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Count on Japanese software developers to bring us something so delightfully weird yet totally useful. Pose Maniacs is a website that serves as your very own personal figure drawing model, set to whatever pose you like for however long it takes. The site is even downloadable as an iPhone app.
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Your day in poetically impossible tasks: New York-based illustrator James Gulliver Hancock pulls a Jason Polan in attempting to draw every building in our fair city, renderings townhouses and skyscrapers alike in day-glo colors and goofy, meandering lines equal parts charming and exact.
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Andy Warhol’s artwork tends to elicit strong reactions, whether it’s love in the form of poster-buying, hate in the form of getting angry at gallery installations or boredom, displayed by just not going to Warhol exhibitions at all. I happen to like Warhol’s art, although until recently, I had only
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A Perfect Home: The Bridge Project was produced in conjunction with Korean artist Do Ho Suh's exhibition of the same name at Storefront for Art and Architecture here in New York City, which ran from September 14 through December 7 2010. Excellently edited by Yasmeen M. Siddiqui, the volume is more a
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I giggled like a giddy seventh grader with a boyfriend on Valentine's Day when I heard Hermann Nitsch, the forerunner of the Viennese Actionism movement, was showing in New York. Since his earliest works in the 1960's, Nitsch equalized the art-making process and spiritual ritual. The artist was head
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Last night's opening of art by the LA graffiti artist Retna was more of a fashion event than an art show. Bizarrely titled The Hallelujah World Tour, the artist's all-over calligraphic style was ill served by poor curatorial decisions like a dense hanging that reduced the lines to visual wallpaper f
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Situ Studio's reOrder, a new project under construction at the Brooklyn Museum, looks like Alice in Wonderland, wandering among surreal spaces not quite of this world. The folding cloth and underlying structure of hoop skirts actually provided inspiration for the installation, Situ Studio partner Br
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Harmony Korine is known chiefly as a filmmaker, best for writing Larry Clark's 1995 cult hit Kids. His most recent movie, Trash Humpers, was variously decried and praised for its unabashedly gritty commitment to a certain kind of disturbing, voyeuristic realism. Bill Saylor is an artist who works in