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The Lonely Query: Art World Beef With Rachel de Joode

NY Arts:  If you had the opportunity to start a playful Biggie/Tupac style art world beef, who would you choose to go after and why?  Rachel de Joode: I would be Tupac and Biggie would be Jeff Koons. For one, I like to pick a fight with a contemporary archetypical male artist. Then, I guess […]

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A Conversation with Brian Morris

Pete Tobey: You’re from New York City? Brian Morris: Yup. First generation American-Irish from Woodhaven, Queens. My folks grew up 100 miles or so from each other in Ireland, and met in The Bronx in ’68. I love New York. Lived all over, Brooklyn, Harlem, Astoria, Forest Hills, Little Italy, Alaska, and now LES. PT: Alaska? […]

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Morbid Attraction: Matthew Day Jackson at Hauser & Wirth

Matthew Day Jackson explores an ambitious hybrid fusion of art, science, and technology in his multi-media exhibition entitled, Capture, on view at Hauser and Wirth. The biological underbelly of life’s undeniable dark side is richly expressed in sculpture, framed wall works, and digital photography, where themes of dehumanization mediated by technological interventions create a hyper-tense […]

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Body Up: Five Figurative Shows To Put Eyes On

Abstraction purists love to wail and moan when a show focuses mainly on the human body. Especially in New York, what could be worse than being forced to see a person everywhere you look? Most of us spend our entire daily commute with our eyes glued to the ceiling, our phone, or the floor, pretending […]

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Petroleum Jelly at Clifton Benevento

Featuring: Polly Apfelbaum, John Burtle, Kirsten Nash, and David Zuttermeister Petroleum Jelly March 8th – April 12th, 2014 Clifton Benevento 515 Broadway New York City cliftonbenevento.com

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Jason Middlebrook and Letha Wilson at Retrospective

Jason Middlebrook and Letha Wilson March 15 – April 13, 2014 Retrospective Hudson, NY retrospectivegallery.com

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Feeling Human at BSAC with Ballast Projects

Featuring: Ryan Schneider, Austin Eddy, and Mira Dancy Feeling Human March 5th – April 19th, 2014 Bleeker Street Arts Club 305 Bleeker St. New York City bsacny.com

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Hans Rudolf Weber

I work in the media of painting, sculpture, and light installation. Originally trained as a lawyer, I have been exploring the area between the figurative and abstract since 1982. My latest works question the construction of reality in the context of a media saturated world’s ubiquitous production of images. Painting to me is an act […]

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Isolt

Each individual is an ecosystem. Tending to the apparition of mind and soul are practices which art can have a most profound effect on in ones life. Creating works of art is a ritual, a habit for ones spirit to dwell on, toil over, and eventually let go of self-centered temporal states of being that […]

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Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors at New Museum

Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors February 12 – April 13, 2014 The New Museum 235 Bowery New York City newmuseum.org

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