Stars and Students at the Havana Biennale
The star power at the 11th Havana Biennale is palpable. With some 180 artists from 45 countries drawing visitors from as far afield as New York's MoMA and the Tate Modern, the month-long, city-spann…
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Christian Jankowski Makes His Own Personal Jesus
Last Wednesday, some 300 people—including a "confused but thrilled" Catholic newspaper reporter who vowed to return with her congregation—packed into London's Lisson Gallery to view Christian Janko…
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AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs On Butt Plugs Magic
Last night at Dashwood Books in New York, Canadian-born conceptual artists AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs launched their book Invocation of the Queer Spirits, which sums up recent years of performance…
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Bomb, Memory: Q+A With Jose Parla
You couldn't miss the opening of José Parla's solo show at Bryce Wolkowitz last week if you tried. The Miami-born, Brooklyn-based artist hired two street drummers he met on the subway to beat their pa…
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The Zabludowicz Clan Takes Times Square
In the summer of 1980, the Bronx-based collective CoLab and some 50 artists—including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch—infiltrated a derelict massage parlor at…
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Amir Baradaran Gives Tourists a Reason to Photograph Famous Art
As of yesterday, users of Frenchising Mona Lisa, an Augmented Reality (AR) smart phone application, can take Amir Baradaran's conceptual art anywhere. Focusing their camera phones on the eternally…
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Blips for VIPs Technical Woes Plague Online Fair
If The Social Network, the Facebook flick, taught America one lesson, it was that a successful web site shall not crash. Given Art in America's weekend test-run of the VIP Art Fair, the world's first…
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The World Catches Up to Kenny Scharf
"I'm not a kid anymore, and it's kind of funny to have someone in their fifties running around spray-painting walls-but it's fun, I like to do it," says Kenny Scharf. He's not the only one. After putt…
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New Documentary Goes Into the Woodmans
Francesca Woodman's 1981 suicide at the age of 22 conferred on the artist and her haunting black-and-white self-portraits a cult status that resonates today. And while the tragedy introduced the work…
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Behind the Glass: PC Valmorbida
Speculation about speculation isn't entirely beyond the purview of this 23-year-old Aussie transplant, whose steel-and-glass Prism Gallery on the Sunset Strip has put on some of the more innovative an…
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