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Chinatown Film Project at Apple Store

Tuesday, September 29 Documentary and experimental filmmakers Jem Cohen and Shelly Silver will be present for a discussion of their work in the Chinatown Film Project. Night Scene, New York by Jem Cohen...

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Mon, Sep 28 2009

Brooklyn at the Guggenheim

Also in: Architecture, Contact, Featured

You might be tired of the whole “Brooklyn writer” thing, but it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Actually, it is. It’s going uptown. Friday night the Guggenheim museum hosted...

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Sun, Sep 27 2009

Digital Film, Digital Dissident

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The New York Times reviews “Ghost Town,” a documentary by Zhao Dayong that looks at the life of a small village near the Chinese-Myanmar border. As the Times highlights, one notable aspect...

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Sat, Sep 12 2009

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

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Last night Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, a documentary about the legendary New York band under the leadership of Eugene Hutz, premiered at New York City’s Cinema Village. Directed by Colombian born Margarita...

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Tue, Sep 8 2009

GUGGENHEIM AND GOOGLE INVITE YOU TO VOTE FOR WINNER OF ONLINE DESIGN COMPETITION

Virtual Structures by Ten Finalists of Design It: Shelter Competition On View at Guggenheim.org/vote Beginning September 7, 2009, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google invite the public to vote...

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Tue, Sep 8 2009

Jean-Hubert Martin on His Upcoming Moscow Biennale (Interview)

Art Margins published an interview with Jean-Hubert Martin, curator of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art called “Against Exclusion.” “Art always needs a sort of consensus, I mean...

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Fri, Aug 14 2009

Kazakhstan in Queens: Screening Tulpan at the Socrates Sculpture Park

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Queens, New York. Rainy summer. Wednesday evening. The gray sky promised nothing but another pouring rain. Regardless, Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens went forward with the screening of the a — part...

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Thu, Jul 16 2009

In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 – 1976

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Jan Dibbets. Untitled. 1969. Photolithographed postcard. In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, the new show at MOMA, is a portrait of the Amsterdam conceptual art scene. This “scene,”...

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Thu, Jul 16 2009

Chinese Artist Xing Xin to Live in Metal Box for 49 Days

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Just outside this year’s Venice Biennale someone has welded themselves inside an iron box. Fortunately, the box is equipped with waterproof LED TVs connected to two internal cameras. Xing Xin, a...

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Fri, Jul 10 2009

The Columns Held Us Up

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The Columns Held Us Up opened yesterday at Artists Space, a show done in partnership with the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center of Istanbul. Offering itself as a kind of interim space, Artists...

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