New York City Art

State Of The Art: New Sensors Protect Medieval Works At NYC Museum

AP | By JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 08.09.2011

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NEW YORK -- It will take a good eye to spot them, but dozens of tiny, very modern works of art have been installed near the 15th-century unicorn tapes...

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Beyond Imagination: FIGMENT Unites Local Artists for Community Impact

Laura Cococcia | Posted 07.22.2011

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What do you get when you combine art and imagination and use its power to cultivate community and impact society?

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Matthew Palladino at Fredericks and Freiser

Marc A. Palatucci | Posted 07.18.2011

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May welcomes artist Matthew Palladino to the New York gallery circuit. The opening of his solo show at Fredericks and Freiser gallery in Chelsea now gives New Yorkers the opportunity to view Palladino's art in all its eerie splendor.

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Inspiring TED Talk

Posted 06.10.2011

Read More: Video, TED Talks, Hiroshima, TED Talk, Voice, Performance Art, Spoken Word Poetry, New York City Art, Bowery Poetry Club, Project Voice, Sarah Kay, Poetry, Radiation, New York, Arts News

After receiving a standing ovation for her poems 'If I Should Have a Daughter' and 'Hiroshima,' 22-year-old spoken word poet Sarah Kay went on to give...

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Haunted: Sue de Beer at the Park Avenue Armory

Doreen Remen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sue de Beer concentrates on giving form to that intense adolescent turmoil that we're all familiar with, modifying conventions of movie-making to help make her point.

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Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)

John Seed | Posted 05.25.2011

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With fierce objectivity, Penner paints portraits of Texas small town life without ever showing us a single human face. Their parked pickup trucks and their children's big wheels remind us that they are missing.

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Ghada Amer And Reza Farkhondeh's Collaborative Explorations

Posted 05.25.2011

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WHO: Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh WHAT: The Gardens Next Door WHEN: September 16 - November 20, 2010 WHERE: Galeria Filomena Soares Rua da Manute...

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INTERNATIONAL ART: Five Can't Miss Shows to Around the World Now

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York's art scene is fairly sedate in August (though we did manage to pick out ten can't-miss shows), so it's the perfect time to wax cosmopolitan....

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Art or Advertising?

Jeremiah Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Deitch-Gallery, The Bowery, Advertising, Robert Mapplethorpe, Soho, Tony Goldman, Shepard Fairey Houston Street, Andres-Serrano, Piss Christ, New York City Art, Shepard Fairey, Gentrification, New York News

The people have expressed their opinion of the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston Street in New York by throwing rocks through it. The City is expressing its with violation notices.

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Jeffrey Deitch's Last Show? Shepard Fairey

artinfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Deitch Projects continues to transition through uncertain times as proprietor Jeffrey Deitch readies for his new job at Los Angeles's Museum of Contem...

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Dia Announces Return To Chelsea

artinfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the Dia Art Foundation opened a permanent installation space in Chelsea in 1986, it was one of the only arts groups among the district's warehous...

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The Mysterious Stonehenge on West 22nd Street

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Beuys, Stonehenge, New York City Art, Scouting Ny, Tenth Avenue, New York City Streets, New York News

I was walking north of 21st Street on Tenth Avenue when I noticed something odd: A pair of stones, each about three feet high and set into the concrete.

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