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kkprojects, via alldaybuffet.com Earlier this spring I had the pleasure of touring New Orleans with two art and architecture historians from Tulane University...

Courtesy of Deitch Projects The PIG opened in Deitch Project’s Long Island City location on April 25th. The collaborative show is a reincarnation of a group show from Art Basel Miami Beach in December of 2008...

Austin Thomas Think of your ideas 2008 5 x 7 inches gocco ink on paper, Austin Thomas' brings her two year project, Pocket Utopia to a close this Sunday at 4 with the space's final salon...

Ligget Hall, early 20th century barracks on Governors Island Governors Island is a strange place. Renamed from Nutten Island in 1784 when it was reserved for use, exclusively, by New York's royal governors, it has spent most of the subsequent time in the service of the armed forces...

Jana Leo, tablebook via invisible-exports.com The relationship between art and trauma has a long and difficult history. There has rarely been a higher goal articulated for artistic practice than to serve the guardian of traumatic memory...

The India Street Mural via NBPAC The North Brooklyn Public Arts Coalition is holding a fundraiser for it inaugural venture, The India Street Mural Project, this Wednesday at Gallery 1889...

via Cleopatra's This Sunday Cleopatra's presents an hour of trailers drawn from the 1960s films of Jean-Luc Godard. If one has never been to the gallery, a charming, if tight spot in Greenpoint, this event presents a fine excuse...

Empty storefronts go both ways. On the one hand they seem to foreshadow an onrushing urban dystopia born of an extended economic downturn, while, on the other, hinting at the return of that great god Authenticity which i have been taught to worship by my elders...

Empty storefronts go both ways. On the one hand they seem to foreshadow an onrushing urban dystopia born of an extended economic downturn, while, on the other, hinting at the return of that great god Authenticity which i have been taught to worship by my elders...

Lilibeth Cuenca How to Break the Great Chinese Wall II Women on painting, 2008...

Chaperone, via EFA Describing the contemporary media environment as 'viral' does only partial justice. Yes, pieces are passed person to person via friends and acquaintances in a way that is similar to the spread of a virus...

The End of Oil via exitart.org To a greater and greater extent, it seems, the world we inherit has been organized around the patterns of consumption and production of oil...

Disciplinary Chart by Andrea Liu Everyone has had the experience of discussing an artist or an event or something with someone who you hold in very high regard, only to learn that they have never, ever heard of said person, place or thing...

Johanna Billing, still from Where she is at, 2001, via raster.art.pl Upon witnessing the return of his father's ghost, Hamlet mutters: "And still your fingers on your lips, I pray/The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite/That ever I was born to set it right!" Its an image - of a dislocated,...

Jonathan Brand, Fallen, medium density fiberboard, wood glue, hardwood dowels, 2007 via jonathanbrand.com At NURTUREart’s exhibition for the Bushwick Biennial, the intent is to focus on “utopia, urban change, and the role of a place in artistic identity” but the resulting show is...

Molly Larkey Untitled ("Pastel Bars"), acrylic and gouache on paper via pocket utopia This Saturday marks the opening of the inaugural Bushwick Biennial...

ArtWalk 09 Continuing what has to be a banner week for Brooklyn art events - look for our upcoming coverage of the Bushwick Biennial - the Brooklyn ArtWalk kicks off on Saturday...

Its Bushwick This weekend marks the beginning of this year's installment of the Bushwick Open Studios. Sponsored by Arts In Bushwick, BOS '09 features over 200 registered artists, and aims to involve the entire local community in organizing, celebrating and otherwise facilitating the event...

Gran Fury, 1988, oil on canvas, 8 × 10 feet. Courtesy of Visual AIDS. The efficacy of political art is too often measured against more classically political actions. Thus activist artists are asked, somehow, to justify their work on the same terms as organizers and other social agitators...

Ethan Zuckerman via contributemedia.com Technology usually plays a central role in narratives of progress. Broadly understood as sedimented human ingenuity, different stories grant technology a greater or lesser role in our eventual emancipation...

Liao Yibai, Cash Fighting 2009, Stainless steel, 161 lbs, via mikeweissgallery.com The figurative rendering of a cultural imaginary is not new terrain. A good deal of work consists simply in recording the exaggerations and misreadings ostensibly structuring our collective unconscious...

Lee Mingwei via malepregnancy.com "I would like," wrote Michel de Certeau, "to follow out a few of these multiform, resistance, tricky and stubborn procedures that elude discipline without being outside the field in which it is exercised, and which should lead us to a theory of everyday practices,...

Carsten Nicolai, labor e, 1997, steel, rubber, wave-form generators, mixing board, dat recorder. Via the artist's website. Collaboration in the visual arts today is not without its contested legacy...

Museum of Arts and Design Thursday, a panel moderated by Marek Bartelik and Barbara A. MacAdam, will consider the relationship between the national frame and art criticism...

Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg. Throw (2004). Video Still. Image courtesy of the artists...

Matt Sheridan Smith, Untitled (open/shut), 2008, looped video projection (7:35 mins) via lisa cooley Blanks, Templates, Undos, Redos, Matt Sheridan Smith's debut solo exhibition at Lisa Cooley, is comprised of opaque sculptures and drawings which occupy a vague, transitional territory despite...

A form in decline, the print magazine remains a pernicious breed. Contemporary fame is largely its doing; the fawning, uncritical portraiture, the endless parade of high gloss mediocrity...

Cobain and co, via stereogum For a decade that is almost another full decade behind us, the nineties remain mercifully undefined...

Lionel Trilling, in the course of arguing that the focus of personal morality had shifted from a Victorian era emphasis on outward consistency, or sincerity to a proto-existential adjunct to 'be true to oneself,' known as authenticity, quotes Andre Gide's remark that, "One cannot both be sincere...

Thar Sayegh, unidentified work. Freedom and Beauty: The Art of Iraqi Refugees St. Paul the Apostle - 405 W 59th St, New York NY 30 April - 28 May 2009 ...