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Armory-O-Rama: Steven Sebring + Paul McCarthy's Upcoming Shows
New York City's uptown and downtown armories are mounting separate, one-man art exhibitions in the next few weeks. New York-based photographer, Patti Smith documentarian and artist Steven Sebring is opening a three-day installation called "Revolution,"…
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Photographer Jamil Hellu Takes People and Makes Them into Superheroes
Jamil Hellu has been quietly creating a cuckoo series of photos called "Guardians of the Golden Gate" for months. Hellu takes ordinary San Franciscans, and asks them to create a superhero identity for themselves, complete…
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You'll Soon Be Able to See All the Issues of the East Village Eye
Some exciting Tuesday afternoon news: legendary downtown paper the East Village Eye is making its entire 72-issue archive digital and downloadable. The Eye chronicled the art, fashion, politics and culture of the East Village, Lower…
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Video_dumbo, a Big Festival of Moving Image Art, Opens This Week
"Video_dumbo" -- the eighth annual festival and exhibition of "moving image art" -- opens on Thursday, May 16th, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (540 West 21st Street). Works…
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Watch "Taylor Mead's Final Fifteen Minutes"
Poet, downtown legend and Warhol collaborator Taylor Mead, who passed away last week at the age of 88, will be remembered tonight by friends at the Bowery Poetry Club with "For the Love of…
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Brian Eno: From Glam Rock to Gardening
If you attended Brian Eno's talk this past Tuesday, hosted by the Red Bull Music Academy, you might have re-considered your idea of Eno as a musician. Eno is credited as the Godfather of ambient…
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The Barnes Goes Contemporary with Ellsworth Kelly, Sort Of...
Ellsworth Kelly, Sculpture for a Large Wall, 1956 "Contemporary" is a tricky word in art today. It used to mean something that was aggressively pushing forward the new. Now with the waning of such avant-garde…
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This Simpsons Drawing Club Is Awesome
This collaborative blog, The Simpsons Drawing Club, featuring Simpsons-inspired artwork is pretty sweet. The famous yellow family is being re-interpreted through the artwork of artists and cartoonists like Kelly Walton, Benjamin Wright, and Sam Taylor.…
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Creative Growth Has a New Cheryl Dunn-Directed YouTube Series
We're big-time (and long-time) fans of Creative Growth Art Center, the Oakland-based non-profit for adult artists with developmental and physical disabilities. Founded in the 70s, Creative Growth has become better-known in recent years thanks to…
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Preview Images from Graffiti Book VANDALS
Graffiti artist-cum-photographer Nils Müller has been a part of the graffiti world for years. His new book of photos, VANDALS, takes you inside the world of tagging and trainwriting around the world, from Paris to…
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Everything You Need to Know About FRIEZE and NYC's Spring Art Week
New York's Spring Art Week is here! The weather has finally come around and it's a great time to get out and enjoy the tons of gallery openings, art fairs, auctions and parties taking…
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Daniel Widrig's Crazy 3D-Printed Wares Will Be Shown Off in London
COLLECT, the International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, is taking place this weekend in London and it looks like it's gonna be great. Of the designers whose work is being displayed at the Saatchi Gallery…
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Preview Works From Pratt's "Flameproof" Senior Thesis Exhibition
In February, Pratt Institute students who were in the midst of mid-term projects returned to the school's historic Main Building to find that their work had either been destroyed, or, at best, damaged, in a…
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Madison Square Park Gets a Knitted Makeover
Madison Square Park celebrates May Day with the unveiling of a brand new, site-specific work by Orly Genger. The Brooklyn-based artist has been spending the last several months constructing a huge, three-part "landscape" made of…
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Catch Street Art Couple Dabs Myla In This Awesome Video
Though they were born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, this girlfriend/boyfriend graffiti art couple Dabs Myla have been spray-painting LA with their rainbow cartoons and designs for the past four years. The duo's colorful,…
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Coming Soon: Photography Book of Little People, Big Food
Honey, I shrunk the art! Big Appetites is a series of photographs from artist Christopher Biffoli, who, using tiny figurines, captures various playful man vs. food adventures -- from climbing sugar crystal glaciers to mowing…
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5 Cool Things to Check Out at the Ideas City Festival
The four-day Ideas City arts and culture festival returns to New York's Lower East Side May 1st to 4th. Since 2011, it's been held in the galleries, storefronts and streets surrounding one of the event's…
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Outtakes from "Look Up New York," Highlighting the Beauty of NYC's Buildings
A lot of New York City tourists spend their days stopping in front of beautiful buildings around New York, and a lot of NYC locals spend their days cursing sightseers under their breath while they…
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Kenny Scharf Arrested in Bushwick
Acclaimed artist Kenny Scharf was busted on Friday night while tagging a Brooklyn building with a black-and-white snake cartoon (above). Following his arrest, he spent 20 hours in jail. Scharf commented via Facebook on…
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Tomorrow's Your Last Chance to See Jemima Kirke's Painting of a Pregnant Lady
Girls actress Jemima Kirke is not shy about loving pregnancy. A few months back she did some nudies with her second pregnant belly for VICE and now, she's created a whole series of paintings centered…
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