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GRAPHIC VIDEO: 10 Most Intense Performance Art Pieces

Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Hermann Nitsch, Franko B, Carolee Schneeman, Marina Abramovic, Ron Athey, Tehching Hsieh, Vito Acconci, Performance Art, Gina Pane, Meat Joy, Sam Hsieh, Tom Otterness, Arts News

Performance art, an unconventional medium in itself, has taboos in its roots. Sex, violence and religion are pretty much a given. But when you have th...

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Festival Of Ideas Kicks Off In NYC

Marina Cashdan | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Cooper Union, Rem Koolhaas, Columbia University, Nyu, The New Museum, David Byrne, Bowery, The Reconfigured City, The Networked City, New York, Bowery Poetry Club, Murals, Street Art, Festival of Ideas, The Sustainable City, The Festival of Ideas for the New City, After Hours Murals on the Bowery, Museums, Streetfest, Marilyn Minter, Picnics, New Museum, Vito Acconci, Arts News
Marina Cashdan

This week a major cultural initiative will be launched, The Festival of Ideas for the New City, coordinated by the New Museum and scores of cultura...

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Art in the Time of Midterms: Museum as Democracy and the MCA's New Show

Monica Westin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Andrea Zittel, Artforum, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Jeff Koons, Adrian Piper, Scott Burton, Richard Serra, Liam Gillick Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Relational Aesthetics, Museums, Nicholas Bourriaud, Museum of Contemporary Art, Modern Art Museums, Contemporary Art Museums, Chicago News
Monica Westin

The modern or contemporary museum's self-professed job now often includes reconfiguring social relationships, emphasizing performance and participation of the audience.

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RULE Gallery Champions Young Artists in 4.0

Leanne Goebel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dan Flavin, Joseph Coniff, Hector Mandera Gonzalez, Denver, Gregory Hayes, Brooklyn College, Bruce Nauman, Matisse, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Christine Buchsbaum, Dmitri Obergfell, Rule Gallery, Vito Acconci, Contemporary Art, Robin Rule, Zach Rein, Clark Richert, Rmcad, Robert Storr, Denver News
Leanne Goebel

It's no secret to those in the know in Denver that Clark Richert is an influential artist. From his early days in the experimental avant garde project...

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STREET ART: Wooster Collective History Of Outlaw Art, Book Review

Cool Hunting | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Os Gemeos, John Lennon, Jenny Holzer, Trespass, Yoko Ono, Urban Art, Street Art, Vito Acconci, Graffiti, Barry-Mcgee, Krink, Wooster Collective, Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Arts News

Books on street art are as common as taggers who think they're going to be the next Banksy. So when we heard the elusive artist himself wrote the intr...

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Kathryn Bigelow's Life in Art

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Art & Language, Fritz Haeg, Abstraction, Strange Days, Whitney Museum of American Art, Film, Hollywood, Point Break, Lawrence Weiner, Conceptual Art, Richard Serra, Zoran Popvic, Vito Acconci, Blue Steel, Oscars, San Francisco Art Institute, Moca, Dan Graham, Artforum, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

It's undeniably a great thing that a woman won for the first time, but probably more surprising that Bigelow made the transition from collaborating on art world films to directing in Hollywood.

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Plan ForYourArt, February 19-23

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christine Y. Kim, Vincent Ramos, Sumi Ink Club, Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, Brendan Fowler, Pacific Standard Time, Steve Roden, Usc, Stephanie Taylor, Edgar Arceneaux, Hammer Museum, Chon Noriega, Julius Shulman, Brian Roettinger, Lucky Dragons, Foca, Steven/Stephen, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Eamon Ore-Giron, Sci-Arc, Haiti, Dave Muller, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Judy Baca, Alex Klein, Gabrielle Ferrer, Simon Leung, Sandra De La Loza, Vito Acconci, Moca, Pechakucha, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

This week in Plan ForYourArt, I preview the final reception and concert for the exhibition All Time Greatest, an interactive performance by Lucky Dragons, and more.

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