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by Paddy Johnson

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Until taking this assignment, I had the luxury of avoiding the question everyone loves to ask and nobody wants to answer: What is the state of contemporary art? Or as I like to put it, “Is new art any good?” For the most part, the answer is no, and those inside the [...]

Artists on Artists Lecture Series at Dia:Chelsea
Monday, March 15, 2010, 6:30pm  

Gedi Sibony was born in 1973 in New York, where he lives and works. His recent one-person exhibitions include presentations at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2009); Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2007); Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2007); and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (2007).

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“It’s been a long time. We shouldn’t have left you… without a dope beat to step to.”
G.R.L., Open Frameworks and graffiti legend Tempt1 have teamed-up to bring you the latest weapon of ocular assault: the EyeWriter. Source code, free software, HOW TO guide, videos and eye tags by Tempt1 available ateyewriter.org.
“Art is a tool of empowerment and social change, and [...]

House Taken by art-ants gang
text by Apostolos Mitsios for Yatzer
“House Taken” is an original symbiosis between nature and art in the mind of Colombian artist Rafael Gómezbarros. All it takes is 1300 ants that seem to have no moral inhibitions to take over any important monument around, this time being the building of the National Congress of Colombia. [...]

DOMUS VULGUS

Artist: Debut Solo Show of artist Apnavi Thacker

Exhibition Dates: March 11th 2010 to April 13th 2010
Opening Reception: March 11th 2010
Venue: The Guild, NY
45 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10010
www.theguildny.com

NEW YORK—The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present, Domus Vulgus, the New York debut show of Contemporary India artist [...]

film still from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. Courtesy of Charlie Horse Gallery.

Time Tunnel
Charlie Horse Gallery
Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick
28 Marcy Avenue, between Hope & Metropolitan
March 5 – March 17, 2010
Opening: Friday, March 5, 7 – 9 PM
Web Site

Charlie Horse Gallery presents:
Time Tunnel
Curated by Pali Kashi
Mira Billotte
John [...]

Jess Baines

Jess Baines looks back at London’s printmaking workshops of the 1960s and 70s, DIY sites of political and community activism that rejected the role of the artist to participate in a network of campaign groups, radical publishers and distributors.

The Poster Workshop was set up in London in the summer of 1968 and closed in [...]

Art Fair Survival Kit by 20×200
The essential NYC art week survival kit with limited edition prints, contests, and more
by Karen Day in Culture on 4 March 2010

photos by Youngna Park
The tradeshows of the art world, art fairs can leave even the most avid art enthusiast feeling deflated by day’s end. To help keep everyone [...]

Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new –be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine– over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a one-day event at the [...]