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Nick Cave's Soundsuits to Graze Grand Central
Artist Nick Cave will lend 30 of his trademark recycled-material "Soundsuits" -- to be occupied by 60 dancers -- to the iconic train station's hundredth-anniversary celebrations, ArtInfo reports. The horse-shaped suits will perform choreographed routines,…
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POL & Sakiroo Choi's "Special Musician Collaboration"
It's a double-collab with these fantastic interpretations of classic music collaborations by two young illustrators. Colombian artist POL (Jean Paul Egred) hooked up with Korea's Sakiroo Choi to create a series that they call "Rock…
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Triskaidekaphobia at Parade Ground
"Triskaidekaphobia" means fear of the number 13, which might explain why this performance art event at Parade Ground (the new gallery across from Seward Park) was split between Saturday the 12th and Monday the 14th.…
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Robert Lazzarini's (damage) Opens Tonight
The Robert Lazzarini exhibit, (damage), at Marlborough Chelsea (545 West 25th Street) is finally opening tonight, January 10, 6 to 8 p.m. Originally scheduled to open in November, the show was one of the many…
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Julia Chiang Gets "Crafty" at New Museum
"Irascible" artist Julia Chiang will continue her five-day residency at the New Museum store each day this weekend from 2 to 6 p.m., working on A Word (Starting 2013), a group of twenty paintings inspired…
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Spacewar! Opens Tomorrow at the Museum of the Moving Image
Is 2012 the year video games became accepted as art? First there was "The Art of Video Games" at the Smithsonian. There was an exhibition at London's City Hall. The Museum of Modern Art started…
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For Sale: Keith Haring-Illustrated Leather Jacket
If you're looking for a lavish gift for an art-lover you know, but want something more unique (and less expensive) than just a painting, you might want to check out Artnet's annual holiday ephemera…
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Mary Ellen Johnson's Hyper-Realistic Food Paintings Are Making Us Drool
Get ready to feel very, very hungry. Mary Ellen Johnson has mastered the art of painting food with such intense hyper-realism that she has our mouths watering just looking at them. From glistening sticky buns…
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The Earth Like You've Never Seen It Before
Far out! The CEO and co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté, turned his passion for street performance and busking into one of the biggest international entertainment companies in the world. To top that, he…
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Internet Artist Adam J. Kurtz: "Tumblr Is Really Obsessed With Butts Right Now"
Artist and graphic designer Adam J. Kurtz has been making waves on the web with his tongue-in-cheek aesthetics that poke fun at internet culture. From balloons that read, "Sorry I Am Such An Asshole" to…
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Carlos Cruz Diez's Rainbow Art Installations
Artist Carlos Cruz Diez has been exploring the kinetic movement of color since the 1960s in his expansive and inventive installations, which you can visit now at the Musée en Herbe in Paris and the…
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World's Smallest Museum Seeks Donors
Billed as the world's smallest museum, and almost certainly the one with the shortest name, Museum occupies the bottom level of an abandoned elevator shaft in a TriBeCa alleyway. (We covered its opening here.) Its…
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OHWOW's "It Ain't Fair" Takes One Last Bow in Miami
We were saddened to hear that this year's edition of OHWOW's "It Ain't Fair" -- held in Miami during Art Basel for the last five years -- is going to be the last. We've enjoyed their perfect mix…
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Your Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach 2012: Part VII
Welcome to the seventh edition of our ongoing guide to Art Basel Miami Beach (check out editions I, II, III, IV V and VI HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE respectively). Let's get started:Andre…
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New Museum to Look Back 20 Years with NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Art Club 2000, Untitled (Conrans I), 1992-93. Courtesy the artist and the Estate of Colin de Land.1991 might have been the year punk broke, but 1993 was just as important for New York's art scene.…
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"Distance and Desire": Contemporary African Photography at the Walther Collection
Starting Friday, the Walther Collection's New York gallery will present the second installment of "Distance and Desire," a series of three African photography exhibits curated by Tamar Garb of University College London. Whereas the works…
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Ryan McGinley, Walker Evans Featured in New York at Night: Photography After Dark
The new photo anthology New York at Night documents just that, with images by the likes of Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon, as well as essays by New Yorker regulars Vince Aletti, Adam Gopnik and…
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Your Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach 2012: Part VI
Welcome to the sixth edition of our ongoing guide to Art Basel Miami Beach (check out editions I, II, III, IV and V HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE respectively). Let's get started:Big Update: It…
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Check Out Ingo Maurer's Futuristic Digital Candles
Take a look at "My New Flame," fantastic digital candles by engineer Moritz Waldemeyer for legendary lighting designer Ingo Maurer. Primarily composed of a thin strip of circuit board, the "candle" uses 128 tiny LED lights…
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Your Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach: Part V
Welcome to the fifth edition of our ongoing guide to Art Basel Miami Beach (check out editions I, II, III, and IV HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, respectively). Let's get started:In honor of the…
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