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Have a Good Weekend: Bushwick Open Studios, WMFU Record Fair,
New Wave Sci Fi

Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 76° F NIGHT 57° F Out in theaters: The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne at Film Forum. Also, We Are the Best! and Night Moves.  Bushwick Open Studios, tonight and all weekend! […]

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Horse Riding Horse and Other Frieze Highlights

Frieze Art Fair is the best trip to a luxury pop-up shopping mall a press pass can buy! Maybe it was the illusion of travel from the ferry ride to Randall’s Island or the un-warehouse quality of that giant, billowing, sun-streaked white tent, but the art was very enjoyable. Here some highlights. First, Beom Kim’s […]

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Have a Good Weekend: New Romantics, Possession, Gaslamp Killer

Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 69° F NIGHT 49° F  “New Romantics Performance Night” at Eyebeam in conjunction with the ongoing exhibit. Miao Jiaxin, Mikey McParlane, Ann Hirsch, Vincent Tiley, ATOM-r and MSHR. “Using sound, interactive devices, and skype […]

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Have a Good Weekend: Je t’aime, Bunny Rogers and Party Monster Comedy

Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 47° F NIGHT 40° F Back by popular demand, Je t’aime, je t’aime is back at Film Forum through the 18th, because dir. Alain Resnais just died and suicidal time travel […]

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The Armory: Better With the Internet

The Armory Show came and went with its hundreds of galleries. There was no Playoff Bracket. No one won an MVBooth Award. Sometimes, there is just no unified curatorial arch or higher implications in the motifs of a pile of stuff. Well, there are niche market trends. This year’s focus was on hot-shit galleries from […]

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Have a Good Weekend: Silent Bombs and Muscular Ladies

Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 19°F NIGHT 14°F Larry Clark’s 71st birthday party is tonight at Baby’s All Right, if you’re into that sort of thing. (8pm, Brooklyn, free) Get your noise on with Prurient […]

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Fill This Up With Rafaël Rozendaal

Artist Rafaël Rozendaal just launched a new art site, FillThisUp.com. To use, click, point around and fill screen with cheery gradient geometrical bits. Rozendaal explains: My abstract works are an ongoing research… the viewer’s relationship to the artwork… the viewer’s relationship to the screen… the limits of the browser… computational abstraction… dynamic compositions on an unpredictable canvas… Some […]

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Kim Gordon Is Surprised
She’s the Only Woman in Gagosian’s 35-Artist Show

Gagosian Gallery’s upcoming group exhibition in London “The Show Is Over” features 35 artists, 34 of whom are male. That’s 97% male, a sausage fest! In fact, it’s 2% sausagier than the Met’s Modern Art section in 1989, according to the Guerrilla Girl’s “weenie count.” That sort of gender disparity on behalf of the curator is too […]

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Jay-Z and Marina Abramovic
Are a Hustler, Baby

“There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you’re getting in,” Pace rep told my editor. She’s been getting calls about Jay-Z all day. “It’s a closed set.” Jay-Z was shooting a Mark Romanek-directed music video inside a gallery in Chelsea, lip-syncing and dancing with half the New York art world as cameos. When Tweets alleging “Jay-Z is doing performance […]

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Who Should #GetBusted
on the High Line?

As part of their upcoming exhibition Busted, the High Line is allowing the public to nominate their favorite person to be immortalized in bronze during a portion of the exhibition atop the historic elevated park in Chelsea. Our friends over at ArtFCity have already nominated both seasoned owner and director of Postmaster’s Gallery, Magda Sawon. Who do you want to […]

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