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ArtSlant Is Shutting Down: Thank You, Goodbye + Archiving

Near the end of this month ArtSlant will shut down after twelve years in operation. Co-founder Catherine Ruggles has determined it is no longer possible to keep the site running.First and foremost: you...

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Uma Iyli Answers 5 Questions

This is 5 Questions. Each week, we send five questions to an artist featured in Under the Radar, our weekly email highlighting the best art on the ArtSlant network. This week we seek answers fromUma...

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Uma Iyli Answers 5 Questions

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At Miami's All-Women Art Fair Poorgrrrl Channels the Weight of Womanhood

Poorgrrrl is a persona that arouses pity in her audience. The Miami-based artist’s performances are fragmented, confessional, musical, and often incorporate lighting, costume, and installation. They...

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At Miami's All-Women Art Fair Poorgrrrl Channels the Weight of Womanhood

Poorgrrrl is a persona that arouses pity in her audience. The Miami-based artist’s performances are fragmented, confessional, musical, and often incorporate lighting, costume, and installation. They...

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At Miami's All-Women Art Fair Poorgrrrl Channels the Weight of Womanhood

Poorgrrrl is a persona that arouses pity in her audience. The Miami-based artist’s performances are fragmented, confessional, musical, and often incorporate lighting, costume, and installation. They...

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Christopher Tavares Silva Answers 5 Questions

This is 5 Questions. Each week, we send five questions to an artist featured in Under the Radar, our weekly email highlighting the best art on the ArtSlant network. This week we seek answers from...

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Wednesday Web Artist of the Week: Katie Torn

New York-based new media artist Katie Torn makes work suspended in limbo somewhere between our physical and digital realities, as she seamlessly synthesizes filmed or photographed sculptural objects...

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Simone Leigh Salutes the Complexity of Black Women’s Self-Representation

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.This excerpt from Malcolm...

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After Dark

Asa nisa masa, a phrase from Fellini’s 8½, is an incantation recalled from the childhood of the film’s protagonist, Guido. In the film we see a young Guido utter the phrase repeatedly while wildly...

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Leisure Class

On any given Saturday, the perimeter of Oakland’s newly revived and landscaped Lake Merritt gushes leisure and its minions: weekend bohemians with shiny banjos, eager-eyed GreenPeace solicitors in...

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"Gelitin, come out to play?"

The last time Gelitin had a show at Tim Van Laere they constructed an elevated outhouse atop a bare bones stairway and invited visitors to urinate in it. The pee flowed down through a transparent tube...

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Art Basel: the Burning Ring of Fire

Whenever I think about art fairs, the first thing that comes to mind is money. Like how Art Basel can cost a gallery well over $10,000 for a small booth, which means they have to sell at least $20,000...

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Basel: Staid Yet Surprising

Last weekend I travelled to Basel for a conference. It's been years since I was in Basel, so many years, that my memories of the city are vague, but after twenty-four hours, I remembered where I was....

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A Transformation Incomplete

The Schwules Museum is a critically important institution. It was the first museum in the world dedicated to the promotion and exhibition of LGBT-related art and artifacts. It holds an extensive...

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Gavin Turk: The Forgotten YBA

Gavin Turk: his work is mature and yet provocative; he has made a living as an artist and not sold out; and his ideas retain an urgency from not being overstated. But who is Gavin Turk? This exhibition...

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Nights Without Armor

Heraclitus wrote, “Nothing is constant but change,” illustrating succinctly his philosophy of the nature of the universe; with her current exhibit Battle Armor, Karen Heagle illustrates this adage,...

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Special Projects at SCOPE Basel 2013

Just as the chaos of Frieze week in New York has calmed down, the party is resurrected in Basel, Switzerland. After a big splash at new venue, Skylight at Moynihan Station, SCOPE art fair continues to...

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Free Basel: Your guide to free and open to the public events during Art Basel

Art fairs can be exclusive affairs. And they certainly do encourage that notion, with their hallowed and inscrutable VIP lounges, wealthy collector-types air kissing dealers across the aisles, art...

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Basel Hotspots: Your Basel Week Calendar

If you are planning to visit Basel during June's Art Basel week, you should be prepared to dive into the most exciting week on the world art calendar. After the inauguration of the Venice Biennale,...

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