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The Art Angle Podcast: How an Artist’s $120,000 Banana Ate the World

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Dec 24, 2019
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The Philadelphia DA’s Office Has Just Hired Its First Artist in Residence. He Previously Spent 27 Years in Prison for Murder

Dec 24, 2019
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Artists-in-residence programs have become popular at institutions ranging from Google to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Now, they are coming to government agencies, too. Next month, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office will become the first agency associated with law enforcement to launch an artist-in-residence program. James “Yaya” Hough, the artist chosen for the job,...

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What Was the Most Influential Exhibition of the Decade? We Asked Dozens of Art-World Experts for Their Pick

Dec 24, 2019
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As the turbulent and event-filled 2010s come to an end, we asked more than 100 artists, curators, gallerists, and other art-world figures to tell us their picks of the most influential art and art-makers of the decade. Here is a selection of their responses.   “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present” Museum of Modern Art,...

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How Artist Lucien Smith, Fed Up With Speculators and Dealers, Quit His Galleries and Got His First Solo Museum Show

Aug 18, 2020
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In 2013, just two years out of art school, the artist Lucien Smith had already become a cautionary tale. That year, his painting Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree set a stratospheric auction record at Phillips New York, when it sold for $389,000. Smith saw two more years of

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Editors’ Picks: 7 Things for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Ruth Asawa-Inspired Workshop to an Outdoor Photo Show

Aug 17, 2020
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Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health situation, we are currently highlighting digital events, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)    Monday, August 17—Sunday, November 29 In

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‘Landscapes Opened a Whole New World for Me’: Artist Shara Hughes on How She Subverts the Tradition of Flower Painting

Aug 17, 2020
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Kaleidoscopic landscapes and riotous bursts of flowers are the signatures of Brooklyn-based artist Shara Hughes—scenes she creates entirely from her imagination. The artist’s third solo show with Zurich’s Galerie Eva Presenhuber, “Day By Day By Day,” opened in June, but she will not have seen it in person by the time it closes in September. “It’s very strange,”

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