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Ruinart and Georgia Russell's Collaboration Launches at Art Basel Miami Beach

There sits a cave, well, a cellar, in the south of Reims, the unofficial capital of the Champagne-Ardenne region. It's dark and dank and cold, aged and vast, almost cathedral-like in its scope....

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4 Questions: Xu Bing

The formidable artist, Xu Bing is most well-known for his large-scale installations that incorporate language, text, and characters.

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In the Studio: Nari Ward, Part I

Harlem is a peculiar place. The ghosts of literati past that linger through its present cultural gatekeepers, the gentrification that went from 0 to 60 in under six seconds. It’s riddled with good...

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In the Studio: Nari Ward, Part II

Dramatic, sculptural installations that transform collected mundane materials into works examining race, poverty, consumer culture, and materiality have become synonymous with the Jamaican-born,...

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4 Questions: Samuel Levi Jones

There's something to be said (and held closely) about quietude in a time when shock and volume are firmly aligned with power and value. It's something more to explore that power and value, in all its...

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In the Studio: Nari Ward, Part III

Dramatic, sculptural installations that transform collected mundane materials into works examining race, poverty, consumer culture, and materiality have become synonymous with the Jamaican-born,...

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The Month's Best of New York Art & Culture

Here are my picks for this month's best of art and culture in New York in no particular order. Ajak Deng + Laurie Simmons + ArtNews Since Sarah Douglas's turn at the helm of this storied publication—...

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David Salle Debuts at Dallas Contemporary, Skarstedt

David Salle's reputation proceeds him. The sophistication of his work was as evident when he was a young student at CalArts in the 1970s as it is now, certainly a significant factor in his rise to...

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Misty Copeland, Susan Fales-Hill Raise More Than $1 Million at Northside Gala

Last week the Northside Center for Child Development, led by Thelma Dye-Holmes, Executive Director and CEO, hosted its annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street with honorees American Ballet Theatre's Misty...

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4 Questions: Giuseppe Penone

When you step into the Gagosian Gallery on Via Francesco Crispini in Rome, housed just steps from Palazzo San Lorenzo in a neoclassical building with its soaring ceilings and treated floors, there's no...

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3 Picks for Art and Culture in Rome

The thought of Rome might not immediately conjure up images of contemporary art. Quite the opposite when you consider the ancient city and it's ghosts of culture past. But this month was one for the...

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The Best New York Art and Culture for June 2015

Here are just some of my picks for this month's best of art and culture in no particular order. The new Whitney Museum Everyone is visiting and talking about the new Whitney Museum, and for good...

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Carolina Herrera, New York Botanical Garden Raise More Than $1.6 Million at...

Hundreds of guests swirled about the New York Botanical Garden last Thursday evening. They were there for Carolina Herrera and the garden's self-described blockbuster exhibition that presents Frida...

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Last Chance: Bruce Conner at Paula Cooper Gallery

Perhaps the most aggrandizing quality of Bruce Conner is his veiled honesty. It's not always immediate or even explicit, as he was known to ascribe the credit for his works to others, but it's there....

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Rashaad Newsome opens at SCAD Museum of Art

VideoRashaad Newsome is king. Last night, Newsome held an intimate affair of a few dozen during his 24-hour residency at Ace Hotel New York. Before collaborators, curators, writers, artists, and...

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Fort Gansevoort opens in New York City's Meatpacking District

New York is no stranger to food, art, or retail, but when independent curator Adam Shopkorn was presented with the opportunity to take over a 19th-century Greek Revival row house on the corner of...

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Behind the Image: Three Photographers Tell All About Three Iconic Images

The stories behind iconic photographs.

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Contemporary Marble Sculpture Line the Ruins in Rome

Photo: Davide Fracassi/Pacific Press/Newscom The finest marble comes from a small town in Tuscany. Sitting 300 feet in air, the quarries raise tall like snow-drunk mountains. Men work in tune,...

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4 Questions with South African Artist Robin Rhode

By 1990, chalks-down protests in South Africa were so common they were almost routine. Sure, the beginnings of Apartheid reform and desegregation were present, as slow as molasses as it were, and by...

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Dash Snow Survey Opens at The Brant Foundation

The November morning was warm. The sprawling Connecticut lawn was drunk with sun under an azure sky and bordered by the deepest crimsons and chestnuts, of ambers and saffrons as if the autumn weather...

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