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This week is the last chance to experience the sound art exhibit installed throughout the lush gardens of the Caramoor Center, featuring mesmerizing works by Laurie Anderson, Bob Bielecki, Stephan Moore, Betsey Biggs and others.
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As the term feminism enjoys a resurgence in pop culture, two art shows which opened this month in New York City offer unique visions of its future.
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Artist and Illustrator Susie Ghahremani talks about how she balances her commissioned and personal work, shares how she got started finding clients, and what it was like returning to RISD, her alma matter, to teach.
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“If you have a piece of art, it can be like having a really good friend, for life.” Jackie Klemplay who runs her eponymous gallery out of her former apartment in Bushwick spoke with us about the history of her gallery and the place of art in our everyday lives.
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We discovered a plentitude of talented artists working in painting, photography, and sculpture around the Jefferson L station.
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Bushwick Open Studios, which took place this past weekend seems to be getting bigger every year. This year, the block parties, band line-ups, food trucks, street sellers and other entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on the event’s draw, threatened to take some of the focus off the art. On Saturday afternoon and into the evening, it was a bit of a mad-scene in the area around the Morgan L stop.
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“He doesn’t want to overthrow the Communist party. He knows he can’t do that. He just wants them to follow the law for all the citizens.” Filmmaker Andreas Johnsen discusses how he managed to gain the trust of internationally famous artist and activist, Ai Weiwei, the Chinese government’s continued efforts to silence Weiwei, and the common themes that run through his work.
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In a mammoth installation at the soon to be demolished Domino Sugar Factory, Kara Walker draws us into the bitter past of the sugar industry with a monumental work that replaces her artwork’s usual brutality with sheer impressiveness.
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On Saturday, May 17th, the ‘Zurich Meets New York Festival’ presented an amusing evening of absurdist artwork and performances that played homage to the founders of the Dada movement.
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A new documentary elucidates the absurdities of the Chinese government’s attempt to silence Ai Weiwei, while painting him as an extraordinarily complex figure.
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