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  1. art candy
    In Artists David McDermott and Peter McGough’s World, the Televisions Watch YouUsing a highly effective DIY high-def, photorealistic technique, collaborative painters David McDermott and Peter McGough channel sixties-era glamour (and clunk-free mascara).
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    Artist Zhang Xiaotao Says Wear a Seat BeltIn Passage, Chinese painter Zhang Xiaotao demonstrates what — in all its starkly unapologetic reality — would have happened if Will Smith’s Agent J had pressed the red button.
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    Artist Mireille Vautier’s Got a Brand-new BagMeticulous handiwork, unlikely medium — artist Mireille Vautier aestheticizes plastic bags as only American Beauty’s Ricky Fitts has done before her.
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    Painter Paul Kolker Makes High Art in Low DefPaul Kolker’s heavily pixelated, neo-pointillist (think Seurat, Pissarro from time to time) paintings are evocative of dial-up modems circa AOL 1.0.
  5. news reel
    The Whitney Biennial: Behind Eduardo Sarabia’s Tequila BarIs tequila art?
  7. news reel
    Opening Night at the Whitney Biennial: The Art Crowd Is Not ImpressedIt was hip to be squared at last night’s opening.
  8. the take
    Video: Jerry Saltz Explains ‘Jasper Johns: Gray’Just how interesting is an art exhibit called “Gray†featuring paintings that are, for the most part, gray?
  9. news reel
    Brice Marden: Forget About Public Art; Jeff Koons: Just Fix the Potholes!He hates those daisies on the taxis too!
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    This Is the Last Year That Artist Julie Rofman Will Serve on the Prom CommitteePainter Julie Rofman rigs this high-school gymnasium with such an abundance of junk it makes it hard to say if she’s decorating for a dance (balloons!) or playing a prank (chandeliers, paper cutouts, carpets, the kitchen sink, etc.).
  11. art candy
    Artist Stuart Karten Finally Finds a Use For That Excess Skin You Have Lying AroundThese grotesque, wrinkly balls of flesh (they’re made of engineered human tissue) come fully customized — your four-legged creature can be tanned, tattooed, or pierced to your desired specifications.
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    Photographer Brian Finke Hangs Out With Some DudesPhotographer Brian Finke infiltrates various hipster-hating A-crowds (i.e. fray boys and cheerleaders) for a hilariously poetic look at social hierarchies and, in this case, alcohol tolerance.
  13. art candy
    Richard Serra’s Nephews Celebrate New York Street CultureRichard Serra’s nephews aren’t nearly as well known as the steel-loving uncle (is anyone, really?), but twin brothers and artistic collaborators Ivory and Shelter Serra are making their mark.
  14. the take
    Jerry Saltz on Thomas Krens: Our Long Cultural Nightmare Will Soon Be OverKrens will continue to do what he does best: sullying the Guggenheim’s good name.
  15. the take
    New York ‘Times’ Profiles Wealthy CowardsThe Times investigates “art anxiety,†or, as we call it, “being chickenshit.â€
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    Artist Florian Süssmayr Paints With Beer Goggles OnThe sheer breadth of Florian Süssmayr’s hazy, Richter-esque Munich beer hall (her work, overall, is an evocation of Germany in the eighties) puts all of our local establishments to shame.
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    Artist William Eggleston Wonders What It Takes to Get a Little Service Around HereHe’s an innovator in the field of color photography, so it’s no wonder William Eggleston took to redheads.
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    Artist Joel Meyerowitz Finds the World’s Laziest SwimmerPure pipe-dream material on a day like today, Joel Meyerowitz’s video-and-photographic installation (which opened yesterday at the uptown Edwynn Houk Gallery) is the result of Meyerowitz’s work in July 2007 with Olympic divers in Florida.
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    Artist Sean Raspet Scrapbooks in 3-DPhysically navigating Sean Raspet’s new installation, The Ones We Work For, at Chelsea’s Daniel Reich Gallery seems to require superhuman agility.
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    Artist Joanna M. Wezyk: There Will Be BloodJust the sorts of paintings we imagine Tim Burton would present to Helena Bonham Carter on some kind of momentous occasion — or, at the very least, to his interior decorator as inspiration.
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    Artist Jesse Pasca Is Bearish on the Economy, Bullish on Colorful ChartsJesse Pasca’s new exhibition of works on paper aestheticize the innermost thoughts of every overcaffeinated, anxiety-ridden, recession-fearing banker.
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    Photographer Graziella Vigo Honors One of Opera’s Best-Ever HaircutsIn a new photography show documenting productions of Verdi’s greatest hits in Italy and Japan, Graziella Vigo captures all of the boisterous moments (not to mention bogus hairdos) that help make opera interesting.
  23. the take
    Little Girls in Big Beds: Contemporary Photographers Explore ChildhoodA Vulture slideshow.
  24. art candy
    Artist Magdalena Abakanowicz Hangs Something Suggestive From the CeilingIn honor of Valentine’s Day, we thought we’d feature this rose-colored statement, part of P.S.1’s “WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution,†opening Saturday.
  25. news reel
    An Artist’s Look at Eli Broad’s Last-Second Sucker Punch of Michael Govan and the L.A. County Museum of ArtA New York artist talks about LACMA’s surprising betrayal at the hands of a wealthy collector.
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    See? Conceptualists Are Nothing to Be Afraid Of, Says Artist Albrecht FuchsIn what’s best described as an art-world version of US Weekly’s “Stars: They’re Just Like Us!†feature, German photographer Albrecht Fuchs’ “Portraits†show gets cozy with contemporary art world greats.
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    Artist Chris Ware Raises the RoofIn 2005, cartoon artist Chris Ware (think iconic New Yorker covers, Acme Novelty Library) launched The New York Times Magazine’s “Funny Pages†with 30 weekly drawings, each illustrating the evolving history of a Chicago apartment building.
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    Sonic Youth Art Exhibit Coming to the Whitney?The band plans to perform at each museum as well.
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    Artist Frank Webster Paints the Much-Fabled Ugly TreeWe found Frank Webster’s desolate postindustrial Americana — muted tones (for the most part), no people, nondescript city blocks, factories, and interstates — to be pretty appropriate for a day like today
  30. art candy
    Artist Germaine Kruip Does a PostmortemTo inaugurate its new project space, Studio 495, the Swiss Institute brings together works rooted in formal comparison. Germaine Kruip’s ongoing Image Archive project does just that and in doing so creates some interesting political undertones.
  31. in the magazine
    Exclusive Video: Artist Guy Ben-Ner’s Ikea SitcomAn excerpt from Ben-Ner’s highly praised video Stealing Beauty.
  32. art candy
    Artist Gus Powell Is Not Minding the GapThough it’s always good to have confidence in your work, this shot — part of Gus Powell’s “Manhattan Noon†show currently up at the Museum of the City of New York — makes us a little uneasy.
  33. countdown
    P.S. 1 Young Architect Winners Would Like You to Eat Cabbage This SummerAnd they’ll grow it for you, in P.S. 1’s courtyard.
  34. you saw it here first
    Ghosts of New York: Photographer Arlene Gottfried Captures Disappearing GothamAn exclusive preview of photos from her new book, and her memories of taking them.
  35. art candy
    Artist Minoru Hirata Celebrates History’s Least Practical HeadgearThough it’s a part of “The Masked Portrait,†a survey of post–World War II Japanese art up at Marianne Boesky through Saturday, this image, Natsuyuki Nakanishi’s “Clothespins in a Stirring Action,†taken by Japanese photographer Minoru Hirata circa 1963, screams club kid circa 1995.
  36. news reel
    At the Met’s Jasper Johns Show, Big-Name Collectors Come Out of the ClosetWhy were typically shy art owners suddenly willing to go public?
  37. art candy
    Artist Marc Dennis Paints a WaspitalMarc Dennis painted some dead wasps.
  38. apropos of nothing
    The ‘Times’ Slideshow on Jasper Johns: Gray, Gray, Gray, Gray, Gray, GrayWHOA!! What the hell is that?!?
  39. art candy
    Andy Warhol’s Topless TerminatorAndy Warhol’s tan and grainy portrait of everyone’s favorite Terminator/governor — on display with 99 other Warhol Polaroids at the uptown McCaffrey Fine Art gallery through February 23 — captures just the kind of fame Warhol promised his bevy of “superstarsâ€: fleeting and shirtless.
  40. you saw it here first
    Matthew Barney, Banksy, and More: A Sneak Peek at Bono and Damien Hirst’s Art AuctionVulture’s exclusive slideshow of our favorite work in Sotheby’s (AUCTION) RED.
  41. you saw it here first
    A Sneak Peek at Bono and Damien Hirst’s Art AuctionVulture’s exclusive slideshow of our favorite work in Sotheby’s (AUCTION) RED.
  42. the take
    Snootometer Update: Gary Tinterow Makes His Move!The New Yorker fingers a Met curator as Philippe’s heir.
  43. art candy
    In Artist Duan Jianghua’s China, Every Day Is Like SundayDuan Jianghua’s City No. 1 (2007).
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    Artist Seher Shah Administers a Rorschach TestSeher Shah’s architectural training comes through in this kaleidoscopic print, Projective 1, part of her “Jihad Pop†show, up at Chelsea’s Bose Pacia Gallery.
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    Artist Bill Armstrong’s Been Painting Without His Glasses AgainThe curves may suggest blurred and reworked Internet porn à la Thomas Ruff, but artist Bill Armstrong gets his source material from Renaissance master drawings.
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    Artist Kim Jones Doodles on SelfArt sort of becomes artist here, but we can’t help being reminded of that freaky YouTube video that’s been circulating lately of the unfortunate Indonesian man turning into a tree.
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    Artist Christopher K. Ho Loves His GalleristIn an installation-based musing on the requisite collaborations between the “protagonists†of the art world, local artist Christopher K. Ho riffs on art-world ritual and even sculpts gallerist Edward Winkleman in the nude.
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    Artist Ingo Maurer’s Electric TableIf you haven’t made it up to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum to check out Ingo Maurer’s majestic installation of nearly 40 years of engrossing, cutting-edge light design, book it uptown — you only have until Sunday!
  49. apropos of nothing
    Do the California Museum Raids Change the Race to Succeed Philippe?Time to recalibrate the Snootometer!
  50. art candy
    Artist Hope Gangloff Takes the TrainHope Gangloff’s pulpy, ‘zine-esque drawings and illustrations like the above Ladies Man stay true to life by culling most of the tableaux from casual snapshots.
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    Artist Lisa Yuskavage Gets CheekyMoMA’s current second-floor exhibition, “Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now,†is a veritable hit parade of work from contemporary superstars, but this painting is our favorite.
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