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Art that Embraces the Incoherence of the Internet
Liu Shiyuan's videos, photos, and installations wrangle with the deluge of information and imagery we're constantly fed without veering into incoherence.
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With Satire, Whimsy, and Fermented Milk, Art Collective Skewers Eurocentrism
Slavs and Tatars come on in full force, filling both floors of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery with their irony-imbued mixed-media work.
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Cage aux Folios: Mark Dion Makes a Library for Birds
It takes a few minutes for the avian residents of Mark Dion's "The Library for the Birds of New York" to settle back into their chirping and fluttering after you've entered the giant cage and stepped below the strange white oak laden with books.
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The Measured Precariousness of Sarah Sze
It’s a common promise made in many press releases and artist statements: rather than delivering an artwork with hermetic, built-in meaning and context, the art, by being loose in some way, will provide its viewer with materials and tools with which to construct meaning.
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Look Before You Sit: At Frieze New York, the Seats Are All Sculptures
Frieze New York opens its doors to the public today, but already during yesterday's press and VIP preview the aisles were crowded, the common areas and restaurants filled with worn-out fairgoers, and it seemed as if the only empty seats were sculptures.
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A Black-and-White Gallery Tour of Chelsea
Contemporary artists and a few artists from yesteryear are exploring unorthodox and atypical ways to experience the contrast between black and white.
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How the 2015 ADAA Art Fair Changed My Life
It didn't. I lied. I'm sorry. But I did like these things at the Art Dealers Association of America's (ADAA) art fair.
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No Names Allowed Beyond Here
At the far end of the main gallery Thomas Scheibitz mounted the painting "Untitled (No. 632)" on a slant within an inset in the wall of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Its four rectangles, thinly painted in rose and violet washes or a combination of violet, green and brown, with varying densities of white b
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Seeing Enough Shows on the LES
A generic survey of New York’s Lower East Side galleries [http://www.artcat.com/neighborhoods/6], perused at random on the first week of November, 2010, including observations from a viewer completely outside the art world. Jerry Saltz often ridicules artists for not going to see enough shows [http: