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ARTINFO Does Design Week: 6 Highlights, From a Pirate Radio Station to Apocalyptic Furniture

ARTINFO | Posted 05.18.2012

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New York City devotes a week out of the year to art to coincide with the annual behemoth Armory Show -- and this year a second for Frieze New York -- ...

The Best of ART HK 2012, From a Zaha Hadid-Designed Booth to a Pack of Hairless Pets

ARTINFO | Posted 05.18.2012

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HONG KONG -- We're at the half-way mark of ART HK 2012 and the rain has set in. Unlike sales, which are patchy, the showers are heavy and show no sign...

Bargain! Buy a Damien Hirst Skull for £5,000

ARTINFO | Posted 05.18.2012

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Your pockets might not need to be as deep as François Pinault's or Victor Pinchuk's to get your hands on a genuine Damien Hirst skull. OK, you'll hav...

The Barbican's Bauhaus Show Teases Out the Playful Side of the Iconic Industrial Design School

ARTINFO | Posted 05.03.2012

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Prepare to see a slightly different side of the 20th century's most influential design movement. The objects in the upcoming Bauhaus survey "Art is Li...

The Bridge and Shuttle Crowd: 6 Ways to Get to Randall's Island for Frieze New York

ARTINFO | Posted 05.03.2012

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This week the art world jet set and many, many New Yorkers will visit a strange island for the first time in their lives to attend the inaugural Friez...

Koons for Kids: NADA Will Train Precocious 4-Year-Olds in Art Appreciation, Thanks to Little Collector

ARTINFO | Posted 05.03.2012

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How young is too young to become an art collector? The children's art print Web site Little Collector is making a business out of the argument that y...

Rem Koolhaas Thinks "Small" and Dasha Dreams of Richard Serra For Garage's New Home in Central Moscow

ARTINFO | Posted 04.27.2012

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LONDON -- Heiress Dasha Zhukova and leading architect Rem Koolhaas have today announced details of Garage Center for Contemporary Culture's new home. ...

Italian Government Moves to Take Over Rome's Zaha Hadid-Designed MAXXI Museum Amid Budget Crisis

ARTINFO | Posted 04.18.2012

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Alec Baldwin may be impressed by the Italian government's attitude towards arts funding -- the actor testified on Capitol Hill about its virtues yeste...

"Ungovernable" Artist Pilvi Takala Explains Her Radical Artistic Program: Do Nothing

ARTINFO | Posted 04.18.2012

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In a moment where everyone feels compelled to do something, anything, quick - from the Occupy movement to Kony 2012 - Pilvi Takala's standout piece in...

Dallas Art Fair Creators Partner With SFMOMA to Launch FOG, A New Modern Design Fair in San Francisco

ARTINFO | Posted 04.18.2012

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Dallas Art Fair founders Chris Byrne and John Sughrue are heading further West. In January, they'll be opening the inaugural FOG, a new San Francisco ...

Q&A: Playwright Amy Herzog on Family History, Political Activism, and the Culture of Capitalism

ARTINFO | Posted 04.16.2012

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Amy Herzog, a promising young American playwright, is pregnant and due to give birth to a daughter on May 1 of this year. The date has more than a lit...

From A Mini Alexander McQueen Show To A Moon Rock Swap, 7 Non-Furniture Attractions Of The Milan Furniture Fair

ARTINFO | Posted 04.18.2012

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Arguably the world's most important furniture trade show, Salone Internazionale del Mobile (or, the International Furniture Fair of Milan), opens its ...

Blue-Chip Modern: Who Are the Most Bankable Stars of 20th Century Design?

ARTINFO | Posted 04.13.2012

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In the season of heavy-hitting antiques trading that opens each new year, including the Americana sales at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York, the W...

"Frank Gehry Made a Kettle That Didn't Work": Architect Michael Graves on the Pitfalls of Product Design

ARTINFO | Posted 04.13.2012

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Curvilinear tables by Zaha Hadid. A violent (and humbly-named) chandelier by Daniel Libeskind. A modernist lamp by Richard Neutra. Architects frequent...

Behind the New Wave of Artist Documentaries, Part II: Directors on Filming Gerhard Richter and Gregory Crewdson

ARTINFO | Posted 04.10.2012

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This is the second in a two-part series examining the recent crop of documentary films devoted to the lives of artists. CORINNA BELZ ON GERHARD RICHT...

Are Your Banal Street Photos Good Enough to Get Into Instagram's First-Ever New York City Exhibition?

ARTINFO | Posted 04.10.2012

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Think you have the best photo diary in New York City? Instagram, the super popular iPhone (and now Android) app that lets users snap photos, add film-...

Guerrilla Girl Talk: The Masked Art Radicals on Their New Research, The Art Market, And Occupy Wall Street

ARTINFO | Posted 04.06.2012

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NEW YORK -- The very continued existence of the Guerrilla Girls is a reminder that the art world still has some growing to do. Last Thursday night, th...

Keith Haring's Endangered French Legacy: Jérôme de Noirmont on the Race to Save a Beloved Paris Mural

ARTINFO | Posted 04.06.2012

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Until recently, a huge, colorful Keith Haring mural featuring his loose-limbed, dancing figures was in danger of being cut into pieces or sold off. No...

Artist Yevgeniy Fiks Asks the Question, Once More, "Is Modern Art Communistic?"

ARTINFO | Posted 04.02.2012

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Yevgeniy Fiks Galerie Sator, Paris January 14-March 3 The two decades that have passed since the Soviet Union's demise have rendered many aspects of ...

Exclusive: "Holler If Ya Hear Me" and "Super Fly: The Musical" Take Wing

ARTINFO | Posted 04.02.2012

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The buzz among actors in New York, especially in the African-American community, is about the workshops of two promising projects: "Holler If Ya Hear ...

Richard Neutra's Son Is Selling Off a Precious Family Heirloom to Save His Childhood Home

ARTINFO | Posted 04.02.2012

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Richard Neutra's architecture calls to mind minimally-designed homes made of natural materials, generously supplied with windows (frequently echoed by...

Discovering Elaine Reichek's Sharp Conceptual Embroidery at the Whitney Biennial and Nicole Klagsbrun

ARTINFO | Posted 05.23.2012

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Born in 1943, Elaine Reichek studied under Modernist icon Ad Reinhardt at Brooklyn College as an undergraduate. She isn't exactly the kind of artist t...

Barbed Wire, Big Shoes, Bananas, and Beyond: 20 Outlandish, Unintentionally Surreal Museums in the U.S.

ARTINFO | Posted 05.23.2012

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The Museum of Modern Art may have "Starry Night," and the Metropolitan Museum has a treasure trove of Vermeers, but Ohio's Living Bible Museum has a l...

Q&A: Linda Emond on "Death of a Salesman," Working With Mike Nichols, and Life Being "Temporary"

ARTINFO | Posted 05.21.2012

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Linda Emond has been an "actor's actor" and a critical darling since she made her New York stage debut, in 1996, in Leslie Ayvazian's "Nine Armenians...

Action and Transaction: Hoberman on "The Kid With a Bike"

ARTINFO | Posted 05.21.2012

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Although they seldom show a church or have a character call on Jesus, the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are the worker-priests of European art...