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Jan. 29, 2014
See a Gallery of Jackie Nickerson’s Striking Photo Series ‘Terrain’ These pictures, of farmers in Africa carrying food, depict people as people, and as sculpture.
By Vulture Editors
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Sept. 19, 2011
By Christopher Bonanos
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June 29, 2011
Take a Rare Glimpse at Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei’s Early Photos of New York City Right after he was released from a Chinese prison, his early photos are being exhibited in New York.
By Josh Wolk
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Feb. 23, 2010
Pieter Hugo’s Photos on Nigerian Cinema Hugo sets up his own “film stills” based on common themes in Nigerian movies, resulting in sharp, strong images with narratives all their own.
By Miranda Siegel
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Mar. 6, 2009
What’s Selling (or Not) at the Armory Show Art critic Jerry Saltz previews the annual art show and sees how the recession is affecting sales.
By Jerry Saltz
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Jan. 28, 2009
Artist Alex Melamid Paints 50 Cent in Brood Strokes Melamid renders Curtis brooding in a romantic setting.
By Emma Pearse
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Jan. 27, 2009
Artist Loie Glasser Instructs You on Where to Sit Not all of Loie Glasser’s miniature armchairs are quite so ladylike, but this one sure is.
By Emma Pearse
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Jan. 26, 2009
Artist Peter Caine Brings Narnia to Chelsea Brooklyn artist Caine has given our winter demons a face.
By Emma Pearse
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Jan. 23, 2009
Artist Jenny Laden Not Overly Concerned About the Practicality of Her Hairstyle Jenny Laden’s delicate watercolor lady, seemingly spun like an old-fashioned candy cane, has the dashing angularity of Nefertiti.
By Emma Pearse
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Jan. 22, 2009
By Andrew Goldstein
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Jan. 21, 2009
Artist Matthew McGuinness Looks Back in Anger George W. Bush may have helicoptered off into the sunset yesterday, but artist Matthew McGuinness reminds that 43’s legacy won’t soon be forgotten.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Jan. 20, 2009
Artist Billi Kid Wishes You a Happy Inauguration Day Billi Kid’s latest stencil, on view in D.C., imagines the future that begins … today.
By Emma Pearse
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Jan. 16, 2009
Artist Liz Renay Ruins It for Everybody Renay, the late burlesque diva, gangster moll, and John Waters muse, occupied her reflective moments by painting erotic kitsch.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Jan. 15, 2009
Artist Samara Golden Redecorates the Batcave Golden’s diorama-like installation turns a basement nook into what appears to be the cluttered vanity of a media-obsessed eighties teenager.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Jan. 14, 2009
Artist Nancy Spero Bullish on Kate Winslet’s Oscar Shot Spero has been plumbing the totems and taboos of the human (especially female) psyche for more than a half-century.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Jan. 13, 2009
Artists Laurent and Jean de Brunhoff Sport Their Racing Trunks Half the charm of Laurent and Jean de Brunhoff’s drawings are in the titles.
By Emma Pearse
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Jan. 12, 2009
Artist Richard Aldrich Draws a Blank T.S. Eliot said the bloody-minded playwright John Webster ‘saw the skull beneath the skin,’ and here artist Richard Aldrich demonstrates a similar X-ray aptitude.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Jan. 9, 2009
Artist Gardar Eide Einarsson Brakes for Popes Were you to encounter this bleak road sign, what would be the appropriate response?
By Andrew Goldstein
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Jan. 5, 2009
Megan Cedro Goes Picasso by Way of Ghost World We have a feeling Dan Clowes would like to go record shopping with her.
By Emma Pearse
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Jan. 2, 2009
Photographer Amy Arbus Battles the Windchill Amy Arbus remembers when Manhattan women used to wear fur bikinis in the wintertime.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 30, 2008
Artist Alan Reid Is Breaking Up the Band Alan Reid has been busy with his coloring pencils, fashioning majestic women into insipid, sometimes silly situations.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 23, 2008
Artist Lisa Young Putters Around In Lisa Young’s hushed video, a young man wearing an untucked polo shirt tees off while a lawnmower crops the course quietly in the background.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 22, 2008
Artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Outsource Their Dull Lives For this video, the McCoys hired 50 actors to perform their daily tasks.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 19, 2008
Photographer Susan Mikula Shifts Focus With her Polaroid camera, Susan Mikula creates abstract visions of empty spaces that inspire memories we never knew we had.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 18, 2008
Artist Kehinde Wiley Does a Face-Plant Kehinde Wiley is in danger of overexposure at this point, but his show of four grand new paintings (and a few oldies) at Deitch closes this Saturday and we think you should see it.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 17, 2008
Artist Nathalie Djurberg Makes Table-Dancing Classy In Nathalie Djurberg’s latest animation, a gangly ballerina prances about a table set for a tea party.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 16, 2008
Photographer Jesse Rieser Shows a Flexible Three-Bedroom Jesse Rieser’s luminous, hyper-staged photograph seems to be a warning to aspiring party planners.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 15, 2008
Artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton Send Their Condolences At Art Basel Miami this year, Powhida and Dalton whittled up a few dirt-cheap six-piece box sets of Leunig-like condolence cards.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 11, 2008
Artist Nagisa Nakauchi Bears All Nagisa Nakauchi’s capped boy squats amid a mosh pit of fluffy bears and flattened dolls, all of them looking terribly bored with the whole situation.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 10, 2008
Artist Ann Lislegaard Makes Sci-fi Less Boring Lislegaard has animated science-fiction novels to make them more sparkly than the average, garden-variety sci-fi experience.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 9, 2008
Photographer Martin Klimas Will Send You Dead Flowers Every Morning Martin Klimas has a series of stunning images at Foley Gallery (through January 17) that might have been shot by housewives after watching ‘Quantum of Solace.’
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 8, 2008
Artist Marianne Vitale Pitches a Tent in Hell One of the standout works on display at Art Basel is a vision of making a new home in hell.
By Andrew Goldstein
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Dec. 5, 2008
Artist Ves Pitt’s Cross-dressing Isn’t Fooling Anyone There’s something incredibly compelling about a glitter mustache.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 4, 2008
Artist Elizabeth Peyton Paints Self, Turns Vacation Into Tax Write-off Elizabeth Peyton presents a peaceful, if slightly somber, picture of herself, her dog, her book, her flip-flops, and her pool.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 3, 2008
Photographer Nikki S. Lee’s Triple Exposure Indeed these are photographs of sketches Lee commissioned from street portraitists around the world.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 2, 2008
Artist Kate Gilmore Breaks Down the Fifth Wall The artist, dressed in a black wrap dress and yellow spiked heels, punches and kicks her way through five layers of drywall.
By Emma Pearse
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Dec. 1, 2008
Artist Rafael Perez Will Get His Pants Back From That Bird Here, a pantless woman inspects her kinda dainty rifle with care.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 25, 2008
Art Collective Yemenwed Visits Mars Yemenwed has whittled down a millennium of culture into a short video that is quite blissful to watch.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 24, 2008
Artist Shai Azoulay Falls Asleep at the Canvas If the sleep of reason creates monsters, does the sleep of creativity create … paintings?
By Andrew Goldstein
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Nov. 20, 2008
Photographer Cindy Sherman Does Her Best Kirsten Dunst For the 1990-era series, Sherman transformed into famous forlorn contessas. Here, she channels a reclining Marie Antoinette.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 19, 2008
Artist Holly Andres Apparently the Victim of ‘Milk’ Viral Marketing Holly Andres might be the slightly crazy girl who always shows up to your stoop sale in search of the gaudiest objects you can’t believe anyone would pay for.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 18, 2008
Artist Jeff Sonhouse Saves You the Cost of LSD Sonhouse paints prominent and not so prominent African-Americans into colorful, distorted, geometrical compositions that render the subject barely recognizable.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 17, 2008
Artist Bogdan Rata Injured in Horrific Teleportation Accident Rata’s foot-slash-hand (fand? hoot?) looks like something out of the trailer for J.J. Abram’s ‘Star Trek.’
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 14, 2008
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 13, 2008
Photographer Renate Aller Could’ve Sworn Those Ice Caps Were There a Minute Ago Aller’s show is a series of neat photographs of different versions of the same seascape.
By Lane Brown
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Nov. 12, 2008
Photographer Mickey Smith Goes to the Library Smith’s polished photographs pay homage to the days when hanging at the library was cool.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 11, 2008
Artist Casey Ruble Will Blow Your Little Mind Ruble’s gouache works look like hallucinogenic versions of those scratch-n-sniff children’s books.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 10, 2008
Artist Luigi Benedicenti Orders a Suggestive Dessert Benedicenti’s paintings are of delicious treats like cream-filled profiteroles, pears dripping in caramel, and the sunniest of sunny-side up breakfast eggs.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 7, 2008
Artist Tessa Farmer Kills Tinkerbell Tessa Farmer’s fairies are made of dead insects and live on twisted plant roots and animal carcasses.
By Emma Pearse
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Nov. 6, 2008
Artist Michael Buhler-Rose Visits Bollywood, Florida Michael Buhler-Rose seems to have stumbled upon an outpost of Bollywood extras waiting for their big moment.
By Emma Pearse
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