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Nov. 5, 2008
Artist Jonathan Horowitz Is Just As Excited As You Are Horowitz has cobbled together a very appropriate wall decoration for Obama’s new office.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 4, 2008
Artist Jonathan Horowitz Does Some Last-Minute Electioneering For those still undecided, Jonathan Horowitz has some voting advice.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 3, 2008
Photographer Catherine Opie Is Saving Up for That Zoom Lens Opie is best known as a provocateur, but she also has a talent for subtlety.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 31, 2008
Artist Zhang Peng Takes a Bloodbath Don’t you sort of wish you could be her for Halloween?
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 30, 2008
Beck Slays World’s Biggest Clown; Photographer Autumn De Wilde Is There When Beck holds the weight of the world in his hands, it looks like this: glowing, red, and in the shape of an egg.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 29, 2008
Artist Mary Jo Vath Is Saving That One for Later This darling, somewhat mournful scene is like a mini-ballet.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 28, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 24, 2008
Artist Daniel McDonald Does the Monster Mash Daniel McDonald’s latest figurine-studded dioramas reenact the struggle for autonomy among the creative classes.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Oct. 23, 2008
Artist Olaf Breuning Submits the Worst-Ever ‘Project Runway’ Application As glamour shots go, this one is overflowing with such playful grotesquerie that the only response is a gagging retch crossed with a laugh.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Oct. 22, 2008
Artist Mary Heilmann Paints Little Boxes Mary Heilmann cuts through the genre’s occasional academicism with lush colors and a woozily applied impasto that suggest she’s having a great, groovy time.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Oct. 21, 2008
Artist Swoon Has Seen the Needle and the Damage Done Not sure what this enchanting woman is sewing — has her blouse unraveled, or is she literally sewing herself?
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 20, 2008
Photographer Diana McClure Enforces Strict ‘No Shoes in the House’ Policy McClure seems to be imagining the scene in Sarah Palin’s domestic foyer on November 5, when the Republican candidate for veep can finally kick off her heels.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 16, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 15, 2008
Artist Philemona Williamson Is, Like, Whatever Philemona Williamson is taking up Judy Blume’s cause: painting restive teenagers caught somewhere between sadness and surliness.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 14, 2008
Photographer Florian Bohm’s Work Is Totally Pedestrian Florian Bohm, German photographer that he is, imposes order on hectic city life.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 9, 2008
Photographer Syreeta McFadden Captures the Calm Before the Shark Attack McFadden might have set out to create a nostalgic picture of a swimming hole on a summer’s day, but the scene is loaded with menace.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 8, 2008
Artist Roman Signer’s Musical Tastes Have Really Gone to Seed What does a flower sound like? No, that’s not a question from last night’s debate but rather one of the synaesthetic stumpers posed by Swiss artist Roman Signer.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Oct. 7, 2008
Artist Sloane Tanen Explains Her Work Better Than This Headline Ever Could Sloane Tanen is an author and artist working in the capricious mode that has propelled Kay Thompson, Josh Schwartz, and Tina Fey to cult status: adolescent angst for adults.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 6, 2008
Artist Joshua Lutz Visits History’s Most Exhilarating Ren Faire Joshua Lutz’s ever-so-slightly-askew photographs at ClampArt through October 18 document ten years in the meadowlands.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 3, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 2, 2008
Melanie Vote Paints Girls With Some Edge The artist paints girlie-girls as lusty badasses.
By Emma Pearse
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Oct. 1, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 30, 2008
Lauren Gohara Paints a Feather We Can Believe In The artist will be auctioning off her dreamy work at an Obama fundraiser.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 29, 2008
Larissa Bates Has an Eye for Boys Wrestling and Men in Bear Suits Did we mention that those men in bear suits are dancing? It’s mesmerizing.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 26, 2008
Sculptor Hiroshi Shafer Instantly Becomes Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Artist Hiroshi Shafer has a show of strange, lewd, rubbery, resin-y works reminiscent of Murakami’s pop figures.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 25, 2008
Artist Alessandra Sanguinetti Grounds Children Alessandra Sanguinetti’s playful scenes have both a sense of impending glee and one of imminent doom.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 24, 2008
Artist Susan Jane Belton Takes Her Coffee Cheap Her show at George Billis Gallery was inspired by the varied decaying coffee cups she has strewn around her studios.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 23, 2008
Artist Michael Krebber: Board to Pieces Although Starbuck’s reintroduction of the pumpkin-spice latte means that fall has officially arrived, sculptor Michael Krebber is keeping the summer alive.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Sept. 22, 2008
Artist Keith Jones Splits the Difference Between ‘Where’s Waldo’ and ‘The Road’ So where is Waldo? Probably holed up in his basement with stockpiled canned goods and a sawed-off Remington pump action.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Sept. 19, 2008
Artist Aura Rosenberg Is Loving Angels (of the Apocalypse) Instead Rilke observed that “every angel is terrifying,” and that certainly goes for the rapture-ready seraph in this collage.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Sept. 18, 2008
Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija Uncovers Some Astonishing Things About the Politics of Vermont Hippies Tiravanija’s work is based on photographs of demonstrations published in the ‘International Herald Tribune’ over the past six years.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Sept. 17, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 16, 2008
Artist Edwin Cohen Grows Flowers in the Dark Behold this gorgeous abstract concoction that looks like beach umbrellas in space.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 15, 2008
Artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders Falls to Earth The paintings are apparently based on vintage images of WWII and the Korean War and have the simplicity of form that made Monet’s water lilies timeless.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 12, 2008
Photographer Cody S. Brothers Will Walk From Here Brothers, once a painter and now a photographer, is showing a series of gorgeous, giant photographs at Ivy Brown Gallery, through October 24.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 11, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 10, 2008
Artist Alexey Kallima Chutes and Scores Kallima’s lucent sketches pop off the paper.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 9, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 8, 2008
Photographer Michael Thompson Caught Red-handed Thompson is showing giant photographs of beautiful objects like butterflies, rose-lipped women, and a curvy torso drenched in watery blue.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 5, 2008
Photographer Bill Durgin Visits Scene of Horrific Yoga Accident Photographer Bill Durgin’s torsos aren’t as elegant as Degas’s, but they’re definitely happy-making.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 4, 2008
All Artist Marilyn Perry Needs Are Some Tasty Waves Perry’s frothy work is capable of evoking gastronomical extremes.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 3, 2008
Artist Kehinde Wiley Plays Rock-Paper-Scissors Kehinde Wiley approaches men on the streets of Harlem, Lagos, and Dakar, and paints them into grand, opulently framed works that you’d expect to see on a wall in a Wes Anderson movie.
By Emma Pearse
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Sept. 2, 2008
Photographer Polixeni Papapetrou Shells Out This image of her almost-teen daughter in a frilled bathing suit would work there in a diorama of prehistoric adolescent life.
By Emma Pearse
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Aug. 29, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Aug. 28, 2008
Photographer Matt Hoyle Joins the Polar Bear Club Hoyle’s subject is often water and the people who swim in it.
By Emma Pearse
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Aug. 27, 2008
Artist Caroline Burghardt Visits Hippie Heaven Burghardt’s dirty-elbowed hippie is swathed in heavenly light. Is she Jesus’s secret girlfriend? Joni Mitchell?
By Emma Pearse
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Aug. 26, 2008
Artist Shen Jingdong Gives You Reservists With a Smile Shen Jingdong, who served for sixteen years in the Chinese military, merges Pop Art with Marxist propaganda.
By Emma Pearse
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Aug. 22, 2008
Photographer Lia Halloran Captures Skaters Hitting Warp Speed J.J. Abrams would do well to take a look at Lia Halloran’s spooky photographs of late-night skate parks.
By Emma Pearse
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Aug. 21, 2008
By Sadye Teiser
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Aug. 20, 2008
Artist Mircea Suciu Gets Brighter Whites Mircea Suciu’s paintings are apparently inspired by advertisements from the forties and fifties.
By Emma Pearse
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