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Art Education On the Rise in NYC Public Schools
Image: Shutterstock A new study conducted by the office of New York State controller Thomas P. DiNapoli found that almost all new high school graduates have completed mandatory art lessons. The study...
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Sean Yseult: Retrospective
Image: Shutterstock In the mid-1980s, Sean Yseult’s name was known for co-founding noise rock band White Zombie in New York City. Before and since then, her exploratory variety of careers has always...
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Pathmakers: Women in Art
Image: Shutterstock The exhibit’s title is a mouthful: Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury to Today. But it is a quite thorough summary of the collection currently on display at the...
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Emerging Female Artists Make Their Mark
Image: Kameelah Janan Rasheed | Artnet | Al Jazeera More and more women are being recognized now for their contributions to the arts communities. There have always, always been women making art, of...
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Craig Ward Makes Art out of Subway Bacteria
Image: Shutterstock If you took high school biology, you probably remember the exercise of taking a Q-tip around the classroom, competing to see who can swab the grossest surface and grow a bumper crop...
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MMOA Sued for Racist Paintings
Perugino’s The Resurrection, ca. 1502 | Artnet It’s no secret that much of Western art—the kind that often ends up in places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art—features veritable oceans of white...
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Nicolas Cage Returns Stolen Dinosaur Skull
The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar. Actor Nicolas Cage has agreed to return the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar he purchased—as an anonymous buyer—from a luxury natural history auction in 2007. The...
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Guy Wildenstein Accused of Tax Fraud
Image: Guy Wildenstein | Blouin Art Info Guy Wildenstein, 70, is heir to one of the largest art dynasties in recent memory, has been put on trial for accusations of tax fraud and money laundering. Two...
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Heart of Hearts: A Valentine’s Exhibit
Collective-LOK’s preparatory drawing of the Heart of Hearts installation | Artnet If you like kissing strangers in public places for art’s sake, this is the exhibit for you. A ring of heart-shaped,...
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Pushing Buttons
Image: Rush Arts Gallery Eleven artists are taking the ultimate in mundane objects, the humble button, and pushing them into the art realm with diverse uses in a Manhattan gallery this winter. They’ve...
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Dead Treez
Image: An image from the Dead Treez exhibit | Museum of Arts and Design Ebony Patterson has a lot to say about her homeland, Jamaica of the 1990s. Now a resident of Kentucky where she teaches at the...
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Donald Trump Makes for a Field Day in the Arts
Image: A tombstone for Trump was erected by an unknown artist in Central Park | Artnet Artists have a way of saying so much with so little (as the case actually is with a piece of art by Illma Gore,...
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Fly By Night Gives Pigeons Their Artful Due
Image: Shutterstock The humble and much-insulted pigeon has been an icon of New York City since the first skyscrapers went up. And now, thanks to artist Duke Riley, public arts organization Creative...
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David Geffen Donates $100 Million to the Museum of Modern Art
Image: David Geffen | Patrick McMullan | New York Times Billionaire and philanthropist David Geffen, considered one of the world’s top art collectors, has made a generous gift of $100 million to New...
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The Massive Sculptures of Richard Serra
Image: Richard Serra’s “NJ-1,” 2015, weatherproof steel, six plates, overall | Gagosian Monumental minimalism would be a good way to describe the works of abstract sculptor Richard Serra. The...
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Johnny Depp to Auction Off Art Collection as He Heads for Divorce
Image: Johnny Depp | Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP | NY Daily News Just ahead of his divorce from Amber Heard over abuse allegations, Johnny Depp will be auctioning off millions of dollars’...
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Meridian (Gold)
Mika Tajima, Meridian (Gold), 2016, installation view in Hunter’s Point South Park, New York. Courtesy the artist, 11R, New York and Taro Nasu, Tokyo. Photo: Yasunori Matsui Public art is usually...
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The Dissection of Sigmund Freud
Image: A photo of Nychos’ “The Dissection of Sigmund Freud” in New York | Flatiron Hot News Nychos, a street artist from Austria, is all about taking things apart. Well-known for his massive murals...
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Cartoon Art: One of San Francisco’s Most Unique Museums Seeks New Home
Image: A photo of the Totor exhibit at CAM in 2012 | ComicsGrinder San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum (CAM) began in 1984 with a group of artists who would put up temporary shows in other museums and...
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Wild Line
Image: “A rendering of the Wild Line, which would include “bug hotels” (left) and flower-shaped structures to house birds and bats.” | DNA Info The Montauk Cutoff has been a Queens eyesore for years,...
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