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    New York Artist WK Interact’s Street ScribblingsNew York–based artist WK Interact, famous scribbler of those writhing soldiers in Nolita and Williamsburg, is showing a new body of work at Williamsburg’s Espeis Archetype Gallery.
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    Artist Mariko Mori’s Huge Light-Up PhallusThe ultimate Christmas light: Techie-slash-artist Mariko Mori’s Tom Na H-iu is a fifteen-foot meditative beast of interwoven LED lighting, hidden neatly within a gracefully minimalist — albeit phallic — glass capsule.
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    Artists Kenneth Knowlton and LD Harmon Type a Naked LadyThink of Kenneth Knowlton and LD Harmon’s Studies in Perception (an Olympia-esque nude pictured via computer-generated symbols as determined by halftone densities) as an early take on those labor-intensive typographic pictures shared circa 1998 in creepy AOL chat rooms.
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    Artist Pietro Roccasalva’s Cute OverloadPietro Roccasalva’s demonic (and presumably narcissistic) parrot suggests a Technicolor (and adorable!) take on Hitchcock’s The Birds.
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    Artist Liz Craft Makes Art We’d Like to Play InWhen will the city step in and have these folks start designing playgrounds, you know, for grown-ups?
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    Artist Urs Fischer Digs His Own HoleOh to be an artist and gain permission to saw, drill, and dig in posh, white-walled spaces and leave the mess behind you.
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    Artist Romare Bearden Reinvents ‘The Odyssey’From Joyce to the Coen brothers, lots of artists have tried their hands at reinventing The Odyssey — and now this guy!
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    High Priority: Check Out This Pie ChartTo celebrate our Web-video spectacular in the current issue, we called up Gretel, the Manhattan-based design studio of visual artist Greg Hahn, to have them make us this impressive animated pie chart.
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    Chinese Artist He Yunchang Paints Despite Sore FeetOn September 23, 2006, Chinese performance artist He Yunchang scooped up a rock in the British town of Boulmer and walked (and walked, and walkedÂ…) counterclockwise around the country until he could return said rock to the very same spot
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    Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz Makes Art From ChocolateBrazilian-born Vik Muniz’s photographs of his chocolate-y scribblings, like Mass (Pictures of Chocolate Series), are among the many standout lots at Phillips de Pury’s contemporary sale.
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    Robots Fight Potatoes at the Kaiju Big BattelKaiju is a giant-size spectacle, with performers in Godzilla-style monster costumes wrestling one another in a ring strewn with balsa-wood skyscrapers while a spiky-haired announcer cracks wise at ringside.
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    Artist Duane Hanson Is Having a Garage SaleNope, that’s not an in-gallery squatter selling cheap books and D-quality art.
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    The Many Faces of ‘New Yorker’ Cartoonist William SteigOn what would have been his 100th birthday, the Jewish Museum pays tribute to New Yorker cartoonist and children’s author William Steig (1907-2003).
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    Artist Diana Al-Hadid’s Stairway to HeavenDiana Al-Hadid’s classically derelict Record of a Mortal Universe is visually captivating, architecturally complex, and physically enticing.
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    Departed Artist Jeremy Blake’s Psychedelic PanoramaJeremy Blake’s high-profile suicide earlier this year sent blogs (namely, this one) and tabloids into a frenzy.
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    Photographer Jeffrey Sheehan Took Your Table at Corner BistroJeffrey Sheehan’s series Refuge: Images from the Corner Bistro.
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    Artist Frederick Mershimer Actually Makes the F Train Look Good, For OnceSure, the results seem slightly dated, but any medium that keeps the F train looking quaint and pristine, as it does in the above image, is fine by us.
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    Cosimo Cavallaro Makes the Blessed Saints Above More Delicious Than EverEveryone talks about Chocolate Jesus. But what about the chocolate saints?
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    Santiago Calatrava vs. the City of BilbaoA Spanish mayor rips a world-class starchitect a new one.
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    Artist Justin Faunce Imagines the Apocalypse, Planet Hollywood StyleJustin Faunce’s Pictophilia could very well be what Hollywood looks like in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear event — or tomorrow’s writer’s strike!
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    Performa 07: Don’t Miss Our Guide to This Year’s Performance Art BiennialCate Blanchett! Patsy Cline! Minstrel shows!
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    Sculptor Martin Puryear Builds a Ladder to NowhereKids were free to explore Richard Serra’s winding arcs, but it’s safe to say that this work, no matter how enticing, is decidedly hands off.
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    Swedish Artist Oskar Korsár Draws Picture of Awkward Woman in UnderwearSure, these ladies may seem to have old souls, but beholding their lanky limbs, gawky posture, oversize ears, freckles and/or pimples, and general look of bewilderment reminds us of something else — our own childhood.
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    Bare RugThis Art Candy is rated PG-13.
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    Not to Bum You Out or Anything…But, as heavy as its themes might be, wouldn’t this untitled work make a kick-ass album cover?
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    Midnight at the OasisIn Oasis, the above ink and spray paint on Mylar drawing, Cnaani’s moldy and decrepit Middle East looks a little like Hollywood, complete with palm trees and a dapper rogue out front.
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    No DancingThough our buddy here looks like he’s rocking out Footloose style, artist Robert Longo actually captured these jilted, erratic poses by pelting his subjects with tennis balls.
  29. apropos of nothing
    William Wegman Makes the Met’s ‘Macbeth’ a Real DogHas director Adrian Noble decided to dispense with singers altogether for his new production of the Verdi opera?
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    Ouch!The Whitney isn’t the only place to catch Kara Walker this season.
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    Francesco Vezzoli: ‘Pushy Little Shit’Vezzoli’s A True Hollywood Story on YouTube.
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    Over the Counter and Under the TableGotta love a tyke who can throw them back.
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    At Last, a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ for LunaticsTo call Elvis Studio’s highly graphic Elvis Color A “busy†might be a bit of an understatement.
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    Tom Waits Heralds the Return of Chocolate JesusCosimo Cavallaro “My Sweet Lord,†a statue of a crucified Jesus made entirely out of chocolate, makes its return to Chelsea’s Proposition Gallery on October 27. So enjoy this Tom Waits song!
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    Rosie O’Donnell Affirms Status As World’s Most Talented PersonShe writes, she acts, she blogs, and now … she paints?
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    Nope, This Is Not Pete DohertySomething about this still from Karen Yasinsky’s animated short Jean & Juliette screams Pete Doherty (The hat? The pastiness? The ability to score with girls way out of his league?), but, alas, Yasinsky’s sources are slightly more dated.
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    Making the Indoors Safe for HippiesArt that appeals to aging hippies, psychedelic aesthetes, and pothead college students the city over.
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    I Shot ‘The Sheriff’Gonzo artist Ralph Steadman and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson collaborated on this 1995 print, The Sheriff commemorating Thompson’s run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the “Freak Power†ticket.
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    The Headless SawmanEmerging artist to watch Jamie Isenstein has a magic-themed spectacle up at Andrew Kreps through next weekend.
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    ‘What Five-Car Pileup?’The French take a lot of heat when it comes to attitude, but, sadly, we think New Yorkers might have reacted the same way.
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    ‘Roid RageIn this untitled painting, Brooklyn-based Parisian painter Jules de Balincourt ropes and wrangles a corpulent meteor.
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    Have a Nice TripAussie painter Stephen Bush dreams in DayGlo.
  43. daily intel
    Herbert Muschamp Dies at 59The longtime NYT architecture critic is remembered by Justin Davidson.
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    57 Channels (and Nothing On)Effective, eerie, and the perfect place for a late-night screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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    Locked in SpaceWe’re not sure if this entirely intentional, but the grill — derived from a photograph of a now-destroyed sixteenth-century mosque — suggests some pretty terrifying (though aesthetically pleasing) security at the obscured airport.
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    Pope ArtIt’s like Warhol gone Catholic!
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    Vandalize ThisIngrid Calame’s From #210 Drawing (Tracings up to the L.A. River) defies Jackson Pollock’s chance-driven splatter method by taking its inspiration from specific graffiti and paint spills found on city streets.
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    Alumi-NumbskullDamien Hirst wasn’t the first to aestheticize (i.e. make shiny) the skull.
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    Indoor GraffitiPaul Santoleri’s “canvases†tend toward the industrial (think Philadelphia infrastructure and oil tanks), but here’s something he drew on a wall!
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    The Hills Have EyesLouise Bourgeois’s Eyes (nine elements) (2001).
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    In the JungleThis densely packed tropical panorama by German video artist Marcel Odenbach, doesn’t owe its wisps and branches to an Old Master technique or a wide-format camera lens. Nope, they’re crumpled-up newspapers.
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