Robert Melee
Robert Melee transforms cheap suburban decor into strange, riotous glamour. In the past he has accomplished this through room-size installations incorporating faux wood and marble; plastic shower curt…
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Robert Buck
In this exhibition, titled "Kahpenakwu," which means "west" in Comanche, Robert Buck (the artist formerly known as Robert Beck) explored the myth of the American frontier using various "artifacts"…
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Justin Vivian Bond
Go to Justin Vivian Bond’s website and you’ll find instructions on how to refer to the artist: “prefix: mx; pronoun: V; gender: trans or T.” A guide for those who might otherwise misaddress the perf…
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Adrian Piper
If there’s any artist whose work fully embodies the feminist maxim “the personal is political,” it is Adrian Piper. For some 40 years, Piper has utilized forms and strategies of Conceptual art—text, c…
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The Lush History of the Lower East Side
Lush Life, Richard Price's 2008 novel based on a real unsolved robbery-shooting, is full of all the peculiar inflections of cop talk that made the HBO drama he co-wrote, The Wire, such a hit…
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Katie Holten
To celebrate the centennial of the Grand Concourse, the legendary boulevard that runs 70 blocks through the Bronx, Irish artist Katie Holten created Tree Museum (2009), an audio guide to the…
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The Pains of Being Spencer Sweeney
For his third solo exhibition at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Spencer Sweeney—multi-media artist, DJ, nightlife promoter—moves his living quarters and studio into his gallery, ostensibly letting us all i…
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Re-Cutting the Legacy of Genesis P-Orridge
What most fans don't know about Genesis P-Orridge is she s/he has made visual art in the form of collage for over thirty years, which makes the retrospective Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: 30 Years of Bein…
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