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    Artist Tomma Abts Pop-ifies the Bat SignalTomma Abts’s mini-canvasses could break your brain with all the rays and zigs and zags.
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    Artist Molly Smith Thinks Outside the BunWhen is a hot dog more than just a hot dog?
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    Icelandic Artists Build a NestIt’s spring-cleaning time in this pigeons’ nest.
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    Artist Chris Scarborough Clouds Our JudgmentChris Scarborough sketches small animals and sweet, pointy, anime-inspired children.
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    Cindy Sherman Disavows ‘Guest of Cindy Sherman’Paul H-O’s identity crisis in the shadow of Sherman, as the less-famous half of an artist couple, spurred the film. The film, in turn, spurred the breakup.
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    Artist Karin Weiner’s Work Is, Frankly, a Little StiltedWeiner’s oil-painted men navigate the rainy abyss on wooden stilts caving under the cloudy pressure.
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    Artist Nikki Lindt Takes a Sandy SojournNikki Lindt’s ‘Landscapes and Small People #4’ (2007).
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    Artist Victoria Sambunaris Looks Through the Desert in a Photograph With No NameHere’s a giant untitled photo of the Nevada desert baking in the winter sun.
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    Artist Judith Supine Makes Our Head SpinJudith Supine’s “Dirt Mansion†is a dingy playground of winding tunnels and ghoulish feminine features.
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    Artist Mark Andreas Celebrates the Imminent Robot ApocalypseIf artist–slash–engineering genius Mark Andreas had his way, the Transformers would be in charge of this withering planet.
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    Art Collective Alfort Raises Terrifying Doll ArmyAll these gorgeous Lilliputians need is a little love.
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    Artist Tamara Kostianovsky Displays Her Finely Tailored Meat ProductsWith Morgan Spurlock off hunting Osama bin Laden, Tamara Kostianovsky carries the torch, shoving the gore of our carnivorous culture back in our faces with her frilly carcasses stitched from old clothes.
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    Artist Team Leonardogillesfleur Defies Gravity, Hogs Sidewalkleonardogillesfleur’s ‘Remake of a Remake’ is 1 minute, 54 seconds of two figures, one falling (or flying), the other quietly witnessing, all set to the background noise of Brooklyn traffic.
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    Susan Homer Makes Grandma Art Cool AgainWe’ve seen so much world-weary art recently that our first impulse was to reject Homer’s work as something our grandmother would hang on her wall.
  16. the take
    Video: Jerry Saltz at ‘©Murakami’’New York’ art critic Jerry Saltz visited “©Murakami†at the Brooklyn Museum to walk us through a few of the highlights.
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    Artist David Foote’s Attack of the ClonesDavid Foote’s “New Girls†are elegant, spooked, spooky, lovely, glamorous, sad, freaky, and alienlike.
  18. apropos of nothing
    Banksy Commits Biggest-Ever Act of VandalismSemi-annoying graffiti artist Banksy perpetrated his biggest act of vandalism yet over the weekend, stenciling this scene on the side of a post office in Central London.
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    Artist Richard Pettibone: Cereal AppropriatorRichard Pettibone, creepy as it may sound, has made a career of appropriating Andy Warhol’s art.
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    Photographer Laura Letinsky Fails to Clean Her PlateLaura Letinsky has made a career of photographing elegant undone tables, always suggesting decadent meals shared, perhaps, between ballerinas.
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    Artist Angelo Filomeno Bugs OutHere, a bug and a butterfly are anthropomorphized somehow (with names Rex and Regina), or at least rendered more beautiful and yet more freakish than any taxonomist might do.
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    See Artist David Ellis’s ‘Percussive Cockfight’Last night, Brooklyn-based painter and video artist David Ellis presented Hell’s Angel vs. DJ RoyOwl, a “percussive cockfight†between a mechanized drum sculpture and a D.J. in a bird costume.
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    Artist Keith Edmier Gloriously Re-creates Kitchen of His YouthFor his current exhibition, Edmier has precisely re-created the kitchen from his suburban family home. It’s yellow.
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    Marcel Dzama Finally Gets a Little BloodyIncreasingly, Dzama’s subjects are war, greed, anger; his tone macabre even if whimsical.
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    Artist Ryan McGinley Has His Head in the CloudsIn most of Ryan McGinley’s photos, honey-limbed teens run, jump, or bounce naked through American landscapes.
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    Artist Tamy Ben-Tor Hosts the Worst Kids’ Show EverThe performance artist and caustic satirist, dressed as a Ukrainian-ish folk-kinda-heroine figure, sings nonsensical, reprehensible lyrics to an audience of probably horrified youngsters. Enjoy!
  27. the best part
    Takashi Murakami’s Art Is Really Hard to Describe’Times’ reviewer Roberta Smith makes a valiant effort to boil down several chaotic, crazy-ass Murakamis into words, and the results are telling.
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    Artist Eva Davidova Takes Disciplinary Action Against Flying KidEva Davidova has taken a booted youngster and levitated him against a bathroom wall.
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    The Brooklyn Museum Visits Astroland One Last TimeGood-bye, Coney Island?
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    Artist Lisa Dahl Gets the Housing-Market BluesReal-estate prices are through the roof, so Lisa Dahl has painted her own little blue house on a very green prairie, using acrylic paint on a ripped page from a nameless real-estate magazine.
  31. apropos of nothing
    So, What Did Pablo Picasso Look Like Naked, Anyway?Find out in this recently unearthed watercolor!
  32. in the magazine
    Inside Pritzker Prize Winner Jean Nouvel’s Downtown Gem’New York’ Magazine’s profile of Nouvel’s gorgeous 40 Mercer reveals the work of architecture’s newest prizewinner.
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    Artist Thomas Holton Exceeds Apartment’s Maximum OccupancyWhile his hyperreal photography, currently showing at Sasha Wolf Gallery in Tribeca through April 26, isn’t quite as gritty as Lush Life, Richard Price’s latest LES-set cop-versus-hipster thriller, digesting the two in a weekend will make you feel a regular Jack Nicholson.
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    Art Truck Parked at Pool Fair Gives New Meaning to ‘Outsider Art’“We wanted to enter [the Pool fair],†one painter explains, “but we found out it cost $2,000.â€
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    To View Kota Ezawa’s Art, You’ll Need an Allen WrenchAt the Armory Show, an artist takes his inspiration from IKEA catalogues.
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    At the Art Fairs, Advice for Dealers in a Bear Market: Be Nicer!Nine contemporary art and design fairs are opening this week at a time when there’s more talk of Bear Stearns than bare walls.
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    Artist Brandon Nastanski Invites You Into His Secret HideoutFrom this weekend’s PULSE show at Pier 40, a secret hideaway for art lovers.
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    Artist Lady Pink Redefines ‘Statuesque’Art from graffiti icon Lady Pink’s new show suggests how Lady Liberty could be a whole lot hipper.
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    MoMA’s Glenn Lowry Bares All in DubaiDuring his keynote address at the United Arab Emirates’ Global Art Forum this weekend, Glenn Lowry threw caution — and local Muslim custom — to the wind.
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    Artist Jordan Eagles’ Work Is Bloody GorgeousJordan Eagles should offer his decorative services to Dexter.
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    Artist Matthew Sleeth Visits an Umbrella CemeteryHere lies a pile of discarded umbrellas on a drizzly Tokyo street (and notice the girl who hasn’t learned her lesson toting a new one).
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    Artist Sarah Lynch Sets a TrapIt’s a cream cake dangling from a fishing rod — every dieter’s nightmare! Actually, it’s a photograph of a pile of papers suspended from a piece of wire — you clod!
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    Artist Kristen Schiele Goes Night SwimmingIt looks like a scene from that awful M. Night Shyamalan movie, except way better.
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    Artist Devorah Sperber Boldly Goes Where No Needlepointer Has Gone BeforeIt’s a picture of Spock! Made of thread!
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    Artist Jennifer Poon Paints the World’s Least Cooperative BikiniJennifer Poon’s watercolor ladies would fit well on the pages of Vogue.
  46. the take
    Video: Jerry Saltz Tours the Whitney BiennialNew York art critic Jerry Saltz walks us through the highlights.
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    Artist Cleon Peterson Says Friday Afternoon’s Alright for FightingCleon Peterson’s awesomely graphic (both the violent and the artistic sense) acrylic-on-wood painting offers just the kind of jolt many of us need to push through these last few hours of the week.
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    War: What Is it Good For? Awesome Drawings, Says Artist Geneviève CastréeFrench Canadian artist Geneviève Castrée’s elegantly comic style makes her one of the only relatively kid-friendly artists working with wartime imagery.
  49. chat room
    ‘Rectal Realism’ Artist Neke Carson on the Long-Lost Portrait of Warhol He Painted With His Butt“I tried it out with a paintbrush and Pentels. I’d dip one end into rubber latex so you could kind of grip them in a way.â€
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    Artist John Powers Builds a Better Death StarJohn Powers’s handmade aluminum-plated Styrofoam sculptures are so detailed and mathematically precise, you’ll think they crawled out of your PS3.
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    Artist Justin Francavilla Gets Into a Boardroom BlitzThe inspiration for artist Justin Francavilla’s ink-and-spray-paint corporate smackdown? Sports-page photos, of course.
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