The Arts & Culture

Some at MoMA Show Forget 'Look but Don't Touch'

Seeded on Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:30 AM EDT (The New York Times)

A few Fridays ago, a young contemporary dancer named Will Rawls was working at his current production, the Marina Abramovic performance art retrospective at the Museum of...

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George Lucas Asked David Lynch to Direct Return of the Jedi

Seeded on Tue Mar 2, 2010 2:43 PM EST (alibi.com)

They met and the very notion of directing a Star Wars film gave David Lynch a headache. It's fun to imagine what a very different movie it would...

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Steven Sebring on Patti Smith

Seeded on Tue Mar 2, 2010 2:40 PM EST (artinfo.com)

The filmmaker discusses the sweet, quiet poet he has come to know. In the art world, people probably think of Patti Smith...

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MoMA Hosts Opening Night Benefit for the Armory Show 2010

Seeded on Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:51 PM EST ()

The Museum of Modern Art will host an evening benefit to celebrate the opening of The 2010 Armory Show on Wednesday ...

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Korean Contemporary Art Goes to New York

Seeded on Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:50 PM EST (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

Korean contemporary art is going to the Big Apple. The Korean Art Show, organized by the Galleries Association of Korea and Korea International Art ...

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Art on film

Seeded on Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:45 PM EST ()

A preview of this year's Reel Artists Film Festival ...

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Lady Gaga-themed Artwork Deemed Unsuitable For Uc Merced Show

Seeded on Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:42 PM EST ()

More than a week has passed since the opening of UC Merced's fifth annual Bobcat Family Art Show -- and one student's piece of art ...

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Art gallery hosts underground sex club

Seeded on Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:39 PM EST (Reuters)

VIENNA (Reuters Life!) - A Vienna art gallery has opened a nightly swingers club as part of a two-month project aimed at provoking debate about scandal ...

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A New Madrid Art Fair Goes Small

Seeded on Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:03 PM EST (The New York Times)

ARCO, Madrid's international art fair that runs from tomorrow through Sunday, has dominated the Spanish art scene for 29 years, offering artists, collectors, galleries and institutions from around the world a sophisticated and widely...

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My Big Fat Greek Art Wedding

Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:40 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Slaughterhouse, the new Deste Foundation space on the island of Hydra, opens tomorrow as a satellite addition to the second Athens Biennale, a much anticipated stop on the June 2009 art safari.

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Over and Over: Art That Never Stops

Seeded on Thu Jun 4, 2009 11:25 AM EDT (The New York Times)

VENICE — The Palazzo Michiel dal Brusa, a grand 14th-century pile here near the Rialto Bridge, is not exactly a place of desolation. It is filled with frescoes and lapped by the waters of the Grand Canal, and in the afternoon its cavernous first floor is suffused with...

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'Artery' Exhibit Prompts an Art Attack in Arkansas Town

Seeded on Thu Jun 4, 2009 11:22 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Exhibit A is a painting of Alice in Wonderland, by Beth Post of Fayetteville, Ark. Titled "The Temptation of Alice," it is a rendering of the iconic children's book character alongside the...

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If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon's Would Shriek

Seeded on Sat May 23, 2009 1:29 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Francis Bacon is an artist for our time. You may love or hate his work, which is still vigorously polarizing after all these years. But more than that of any other artist who emerged at the end of World War II, his work tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the...

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Ao On Site: Banks Violette's "Not Yet Titled" at Team Gallery New York, through June 20th, 2009

Seeded on Sat May 9, 2009 1:27 PM EDT (artobserved)

From May 7th until June 20th, Team Gallery presents new work by artist Banks Violette. Last night, a crowd -among which fellow artists Dash Snow and Matthew Barney- gathered at Team Gallery and Grand Street to take a first look at the work.

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Dennis Hopper curates show in of ex-L.A. artists

Seeded on Mon May 4, 2009 2:25 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

This little town has cast its spell on artistic outsiders ever since a broken wagon wheel in 1898 landed a couple of New York painters here, inspiring an art colony.

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Installation of art complements architecture and city skyline itself

Seeded on Sun May 3, 2009 11:55 AM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

And so we have it. The addition to the Art Institute of Chicago that has been a decade in the making will open with the first in a round of parties this week. The Renzo Piano-designed building formally will take its place in the city's architectural panorama.

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Two Works Stolen From Dutch Museum

Seeded on Sun May 3, 2009 11:51 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Masked gunmen stole two paintings from a Dutch museum on Friday, including a work by Salvador Dalí, officials said, The Associated Press reported.

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Great art gives you energy: an interview with art dealer Deborah Bell

Seeded on Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:45 PM EDT (Examiner)

Deborah Bell's office is located at 511 W 25th Street, one of the megamalls of art dealers located in Chelsea, New York City...

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Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week

Seeded on Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:48 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

From the hapless, lost hitchhiker to the grotesque carnival clown, Cindy Sherman has photographed herself playing a host of characters.

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Going native with billionaire collectors and bad-boy artists

Seeded on Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:26 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

So much for urbanization patterns, or dry tomes stuffed with statistics: For her latest project, sociologist Sarah Thornton went deep inside one of the most rarefied, complicated communities on the planet - the international art scene...

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Cuba Opens Up to the Art World

Seeded on Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:20 PM EDT (art info)

HAVANA—Cuba's 10th Havana Biennial is an overwhelming, scattered affair. For starters, like the past several editions, it's not a biennial at all, but rather a triennial, though no one has bothered to update the name.

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British Auction House to Sell Hitler's Paintings: Owner Hides Identity

Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 1:32 PM EDT (chattahbox)

(ChattahBox)—A report out today, of a British auction house set to auction off 13 early works painted by Hitler, the Nazi dictator synonymous with the face of evil and responsible for the deaths of millions, including the genocide of six million Jews.

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ArtBabble Site Opens Window to World of Museums

Seeded on Tue Apr 7, 2009 4:54 PM EDT (The New York Times)

For old television shows, there's Hulu. For college lectures, there's iTunes U. And now, for videos about art, there's ArtBabble, a Web site created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art that offers videos from sources including the Museum of Modern Art and the PBS series...

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Recession forcing museums to do more with less

Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 1:06 PM EDT (Newsday.com)

NEW YORK - The recession is hitting museums hard from coast to coast, forcing directors to boost admission fees, cut budgets and staff, and put ambitious projects on hold. But in a twist on the bleak economic news, museums are actually reporting an increase in attendance.

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Helen Levitt, No-Nonsense New Yorker

Seeded on Wed Apr 1, 2009 2:41 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Helen Levitt's photographs from the 1940s of children on New York streets, perhaps the most revealing and tender studies of play ever recorded, offer few clues about the formidable person who took them.

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