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October 2, 2013The artist's entertaining perversity veils his broad influence
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October 1, 2013Update: We found it! Location and photo at the end of the post.
About two weeks ago, the elusive graffiti artist Banksy got the Internet whirring when he tore down his multipage website and left just a single black-and-white image of a previously unseen stenciled work and an apparent announcement o ... More >>
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September 11, 2013Film
July 24, 2013Voice Choices
May 8, 2013Zoom in on Chuck's Close's artistic process
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April 26, 2013Times Square was wickedly crowded today, nothing out of the ordinary. But there were more faces in the crowd that usual. Hundreds of black and white posters of peoples faces were pasted all over the corner of 47th Street and 7th Avenue. It looked pretty damn extraordinary.
The spectacle was the bra ... More >>
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March 6, 2013Mad as hell, and shilling brilliantly for the Armory art fair
Voice Choices
March 6, 2013Before the Sartorialist,
there was Monet
Voice Choices
February 27, 2013Artists, collectors, and buyers invade the city
Art
February 6, 2013Blogs
December 20, 2012Last weekend brought fresh news for art world titan Larry Gagosian, all of it terrible. Not only have rumors of a planned May Jeff Koons' exhibition at rival David Zwirner gallery turned out to be true, but two of Gagosian's major artists have decamped from the famous powerhouse gallery at a time wh ... More >>
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November 28, 2012Art
November 21, 2012George Bellows gets a big retrospective at the Met
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November 14, 2012Voice Choices
November 14, 2012The Moustache Man Tells All
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October 10, 2012Blogs
October 5, 2012After their much-anticipated 2010 reunion at Matador Records' 21st birthday party in Las Vegas, lo-fi rockers Guided by Voices buckled up and went on a two-year bender of tour dates and recent album releases. Now, with an art exhibition called The Big Hat & Toy Show, frontmen Robert Pollard and Tobi ... More >>
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September 8, 2012You might know Shepard Fairey. If you don't, you probably do or at least haven't realized yet. The Los Angeles man behind Obey and one of the stars in street artist Banksy's mockumentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop," has risen to fame in the contemporary art world, partly because he created one of ... More >>
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September 5, 2012Art
September 5, 2012Why the late writer was our most important art critic
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May 23, 2012Art
May 23, 2012A curious group show takes up the noted artist
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May 2, 2012Voice Choices
May 2, 2012Voice Choices
March 28, 2012Just say no to sexism in the
arts with the Guerrilla Girls
Voice Choices
March 14, 2012Humans can morph into
just about anything
Art
December 28, 2011Three Voice critics name their favorites from the past year
Voice Choices
December 14, 2011Photo tips from the late Diane Arbus
Art
November 30, 2011A show that made 'em mad in D.C. comes to town
Voice Choices
November 23, 2011Blogs
November 9, 2011BRAVOTewz on Work of Art
One of the more intriguing aspects of Work of Art, the BRAVO reality show we've been following, is that the show's producers chose a handful of cast members who'd already had a presence in the world, whose self-propelled careers could exist apart from the reality-television ... More >>
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November 2, 2011Sherrie Levine gets a major retrospective
Voice Choices
November 2, 2011Murals unearthed 80 years later
Art
September 28, 2011Two Voice critics tackle the painter's big retrospective
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April 15, 2011Two organizations, the Institute for Urban Design and Project for Public Spaces, have joined forces to create a competition entitled "By the City, For the City." Addressing the city's need for public input and innovation, they've asked for your opinion on a seemingly trivial question: "How wo ... More >>
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April 13, 2011The evolution of night photography
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March 11, 2011Subaquatica.comJust as it seemed like street art was experiencing a rush, New York City developers have announced that Queens' own graffiti warehouse, 5Pointz, will be bulldozed. To the dismay of street artists and hip-hop fans alike, the "graffiti mecca" will be replaced by high-rises.
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March 5, 2011Mysterious British street artist Banksy just bailed out of jail two members of a Russian art collective called Voina, which means "war." Leonid Nikolayev and Oleg Vorotnikov awaited trial in a bed bug-infested St. Petersburg prison for four months until Banksy swooped in and paid their bail. ... More >>
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February 16, 2011Though Beavis and Butt-Head might approve of the New Museum's retrospective
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February 4, 2011Winona Chiropractic Center in Winona, Minnesota, hired a web designer to create a site with which to advertise their business. Apparently, they didn't follow through with the appropriate payments, so the web designer went back into the site and started recoding. Here's a link to the site. Mak ... More >>
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February 3, 2011Rebbe Menachem Schneerson​Lubavitch Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is rearing his ghostly head from a grave on Long Island, sending shudders of frustration through the halls of the New York art world.
A complex legal dispute over Schneerson's Library — a collection of 12,000 books and 50 ... More >>
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January 18, 2011"If you win this auction I will mail you a piece of paper revealing the true identity of "Banksy": This according to Ebay seller daigroandujo, who leaves us public folk only six more days to elbow our way to the prize of an English man's privacy. Perhaps the morning trudge from bed to bathroo ... More >>
Art
September 1, 2010James Cohan Gallery hosts the artist's Swing Shift
Voice Choices
August 11, 2010The German artist captured his country like no one else
Voice Choices
July 13, 2010A fascinating look at the rise of modern photography
Art
May 4, 2010A Chorus Line gets an unusual downtown video revival
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April 30, 2010Old School or New School? The choice is yours.Today, the New York Times takes note of the Museum of Modern Art catering to tourists who're too vapid unfamiliar with our city to sort out the name of their contemporary art outpost in Long Island City, P.S. 1. Thus, the Museum of Modern art has ... More >>
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March 24, 2010Blogs
February 20, 2010thegallerysagharbor.comThere is, according to the Wall Street Journal, a market in oil paintings of Alan Greenspan, and like most markets it's somewhat depressed of late.
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