‘Black Pain Is Not for Profit’: An Activist Collective Protests Luke Willis Thompson’s Turner Prize Nomination

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‘Black Pain Is Not for Profit’: An Activist Collective Protests Luke Willis Thompson’s Turner Prize Nomination

The protesters accuse the artist of making work that profits from the suffering of black and marginalized people.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 25, 2018

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Giant Video Portraits of Refugees Are Circling Manhattan for the UN General Assembly This Week—See Them Here

Shimon Attie's floating film installation can be seen on New York's Hudson and East Rivers.

By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 25, 2018

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8 Things Not to Miss During Berlin Art Week, From a Tasteful Night at Berlin’s Notorious Berghain Club to a ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Reading

Here are the highlights this year's Berlin Art Week, which opens tomorrow at various institutions, project spaces, private collections, and galleries across the German capital.

By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, Sep 25, 2018

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A Pop-Up Museum in New York Illustrates the Harmful Effects of Broken Windows Policing

The exhibition aims to highlight the impact of the policy on African American and Latino communities.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 24, 2018

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This California Winery Is Opening a Massive Sculpture Park With Works by Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama, and More Blue-Chip Artists

The park features major works by a veritable who's who of contemporary artists.

By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 21, 2018

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High Art? Las Vegas’s New Cannabis Museum Has Hunter S. Thompson’s Chevy and the World’s Largest Glass Bong

Yes, that's the actual "Red Shark" Chevrolet Caprice from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 21, 2018

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‘They Were Like Challenges to Me’: Watch How Rackstraw Downes Engages With Great Landscape Painters Who Came Before Him

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Artnet News, Sep 20, 2018

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Munich Says Its Art Scene Doesn’t Get Enough Attention. Can a New Gallery Share Program Change That?

The first edition of Various Others shows promise.

By Kate Brown, Sep 18, 2018

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5Pointz Is Gone But Its Artists Have Reunited to Turn a New York Stairwell Into a ‘Museum of Street Art’

The citizenM hotel has turned over wall space to the street artists whose work was whitewashed from the 5Pointz graffiti mecca.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 17, 2018

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How Rising Star Firelei Báez Uses Yoruba Myth and Her Afro-Caribbean Heritage in Her Profound ‘Joy Out of Fire’ Murals

The artist opens a new show at Kavi Gupta in Chicago this weekend.

By Jasmin Hernandez, Sep 13, 2018

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We Asked a Comedian, a Rock Star, and 13 Other Culturally Plugged-in People to Tell Us Their Must-See Fall Art Shows

Culture mavens from around the globe name the shows that excite them the most—from Alex Prager in New York to Basquiat in Paris.

By Artnet News, Sep 13, 2018

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‘You Have to be Confronted With Reality All the Time’: Watch Artist Gabriel Orozco Explain Why the Street Is His Studio

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

By Artnet News, Sep 13, 2018

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From a Turner Prize Winner to a Mysterious Viral Prankster, Meet 6 Artists Making Their New York Solo Show Debuts This Fall

Kicking off the new season with artists showing their work in the city for the first time.

By Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, Sep 11, 2018

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‘My Whole Life Has Been Following This Single Material’: How Liza Lou’s Obsession With Beads Transformed a Village in South Africa

The artist's show of glass-beaded works inaugurates Lehmann Maupin's new Chelsea gallery.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 10, 2018

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29Rooms Returns to New York With a Photo-Ready Mix of Art, Ads, and Activism—See 3 Highlights Here

There are some real artists amid the product placement at 29Rooms.

By Sarah Cascone, Sep 7, 2018