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Venus Over Manhattan Delivers Art in the Form of Cars

by Corinna Kirsch on December 7, 2013
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Take an elevator to the 7th floor of an open-air parking garage, and you’ll find Piston Head, an exhibition of over a dozen artist-designed cars, motorcycles, and trucks shipped from all over the world.

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Week Three: Jet-Ski Scam in Thailand by Rirkrit Tiravanija

by Corinna Kirsch on November 20, 2013
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Dream Exhibitions is a new weekly series that asks artists, writers, curators, and other creative types what as-yet unrealized exhibition they’d like to see.

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An Avant Garde Diaries Dispatch: Agathe Snow and Bill Beckley on the NYC Party Scene

by Gabriela Vainsencher on August 27, 2013
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Sometimes art and fun times go hand in hand. The dadaists partied at Cabaret Voltaire, Andy Warhol and friends had The Factory, and Ross Bleckner was not only a permanent fixture of The Mudd Club—he owned the building. Party scenes have traditionally been open, accepting environments to which artists were drawn.

Inspired by the recent show at Friedman Benda gallery And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music, the latest installment of The Avant/Garde Diaries takes an intimate look at two artists in the show: Bill Beckley and Agathe Snow.

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Frieze New York: Either Way, We’re Drinking Champagne

by Corinna Kirsch on May 10, 2013
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“Greetings from Captain John. There will be no swimming and no diving.” Sailing on the Frieze ferry to Randall’s Island, the driver told us that we were on our way to vacation, but cautioned against letting loose with freewheeling abandon. Once we landed, that ethos seemed to be in effect at the fair itself: dealers and collectors were having fun, and the fair was certainly crowded, but nobody was breaking out champagne in the early afternoon to celebrate skyrocketing sales.

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Tuesday Links!

by Paddy Johnson on October 4, 2011

  • Are Henry Rollins’ hands cool enough to make cinemagraphs okay after all? [dump.fm – Image pictured above]
  • Dan Colen has almost nothing to say about his work…for over eight minutes. [ViceTV via: @manbartlett]
  • Bravo’s show on gallerinas, “Paint the Town” (formerly Gallery Girls) might be filming at the Lower East Side Gallery, End of Century. [Gallerist NY]
  • Some guy with a beard in LA is selling a giant antelope head. Only $2500. [Craigslist]
  • AMAZING slideshow of Wonder of the Age’: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900 now at The Met. [NYTimes]
  • Rachel Sklar’s twitter account, in long form. [Business Insider]
  • Nicholas O’Brien advocates for wit and empathy in art. [Hyperjunk at Bad at Sports]
  • Just what you always wanted, a tour of the NY Art Book Fair with your embarrassing uncle. [Gallerist NY]
  • A report on Occupy Wall Street’s Internet team. [Betabeat]
  • From a discussion on blogger Greg Allen’s book, “Canal Zone Richard Prince Yes Rasta: Selected Court Documents, Etc Etc“: The court takes the role of the beleaguered parent who has just discovered that her child is having sex, to the point where Judge Batts employs pointed scare quotes in her introduction of “appropriation art” as a term. [The Brooklyn Rail]
  • Kanye West’s new fashion line comes with fur backpacks. No swoons from the critics. [BlackBook]
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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Let’s Not Talk About Dan Colen

by Art Fag City on September 29, 2010
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The art world’s most boring story this month is about how everyone hates Dan Colen. How his show at Gagosian sucks (it does); how his story is one of excess (both personal and professional: how he’s a reformed drug addict and his work is expensive); and how everyone begrudges having to talk about him because we all know the work isn’t worth it.

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Dan Colen: “poetry”

by Art Fag City on September 1, 2010
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Dan Colen, “poetry” Date: Friday, September 10th 2010 – Saturday, October 16th 2010 Venue: Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street Dan Colen’s presenting a bunch of skateboard ramps at Gagosian’s Chelsea location that no one is allowed to use. This separates the show from Deitch Project’s Skateboard Bowl in 2002-2003, which skaters performed on all day. We […]

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