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    Chuck Close at His Gala Party: Eff You Every MuchWith a cameo from an art-grubbing Michael Ovitz!
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    A Sub-Continental Picasso Gets His DueS.H.Raza’s Prakriti Purush, 2006.
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    A French Painter Takes on Captain Americauk Vidor’s American Anatomy (2007).
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    Till the Maos Come HomeIn New Mao Chinese sculptor Guangci gives his country’s former Communist leader the sort of egalitarian, iconographic treatment that Mao himself might’ve actually appreciated
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    Calling Al Gore!Jon Elliott’s The Raft (2006–7).
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    Is the Art Jeffrey Deitch Booted From His Gallery Really That Offensive?Vulture has full images of both pieces.
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    Art From a CanIn what’s best described as a Gothic revivalist approach to environmentalism, Mircea Cantor’s Rosace gets at the potential of crushed, discarded soda cans.
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    Fear and PaintingIn a boozy, peyote-induced, psychedelic haze, the late Hunter Thompson might have considered David Perry’s expressionistic portrait remarkably true to life.
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    A Sweater Lovely as a TreeIsabel Berglund’s cuddly City of Stitches should be the avant-garde mascot for environmentalist types the world over (though we suspect they’d oppose to the cotton medium — is there such a thing as soy yarn?), and pretty much the only tree we’d ever actually hug.
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    Random Creep Shopping Jeremy Blake–Theresa Duncan Movie Script“Transistor-gators?â€
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    Not ImpressedLisette Model’s Fashion Show, Hotel Pierre, c. 1957 is one of many “slice of life†standouts in Aperture’s fall survey, “Lisette Model and Her Successors.â€
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    World’s First Porno for Plants Not Nearly As Hot As It Could Have BeenArtist Jonathan Keats’s Cinema Botanica is, he claims, the world’s first porno film for plants and features “explicit acts of cross pollination.â€
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    Wait, Bryan Adams Took a Picture of Tony Blair?We always knew Blair was cooler than our president. Plus, we just noticed that he’s kind of hot.
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    Float OnThe above sculpture is just one of many pieces that make up Keith Tyson’s sprawing installation at PaceWildenstein, Large Field Array.
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    If This Art Looks Bad, It’s Because You’re UglyIsraeli artist Daniel Rozin takes the fun-house concept to a whole new level with his interactive Weave Mirror.
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    In Your FaceIf anything, Matt Keegan’s optically curious assemblage Humberto, Humberto, Humberto suggests a sort of contemplative anonymity.
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    You Know What They Say About a Guy With Big Hands…As the first of many fall previews, we bring you this giant, delicately decayed hand by Zhang Huan (actual title: Fresh Open Buddha Hand).
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    Behind the MusicLollapalooza may have been four weeks ago, but now that the last of the attendees have finally found their way back to their cars, we thought it might be a good time to highlight this installation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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    Bling: Now With More PotassiumPuerto Rico–born, Brooklyn-based artist Miguel Luciano, one of 45 Caribbean artists showing in the Brooklyn Museum’s “Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art,†brings us Plátano Pride, a seamless amalgamation of North and Central: one precocious teen, a taste of hip-hop culture, and Puerto Rico’s favorite starch.
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    Pulp AfflictionMan-Crazy Nurse is one of Prince’s many “Nurse†paintings — sexy, sinister images culled from pulp lit.
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    Mob ArtEver wonder what Goodfella Henry Hill is up to these days? Us neither, but apparently it’s selling his own artwork on eBay.
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    Suspended AnimationEugene de Salignac may have been shooting in an official capacity — he was, after all, the staff photographer for the New York City Department of Bridges, Plant and Structures — but his pictures have an air of whimsy and nostalgia rarely seen in governmental commissions.
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    Bringing It All Back HomeDowntown types will recognize WK’s work instantly — life-size black-and-white figures with blurred, agonized mugs — but his newest series goes where few contemporary street artists tend to go, at least locally.
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    Hot AirIt’s the Discovery Zone gone highbrow, an avant-garde playpen minus the screaming children and, more than likely, a psychedelic lair for campus stoners.
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    He Gets Down With His Bad SelfThis artist might have shifted from the streets to the studio, but the graffiti aesthetic is still ever-present in his work.
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    Hot Crocodile-on-Human ActionSan Francisco–based duo Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall’s whimsical renditions of an imagined subterranean world are essentially Alice gone urban.
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    Infinitesimal Light and MagicBefore there was high-def or CGI Beowulf, there was, well, this.
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    AwwwkwardHere’s hoping our pals at La Guardia don’t resort to anything like this.
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    Space Is the PlaceJohn’s works are lovely, and they suggest that life in suburbia might not be as bad as we’d think (though it’s probably still pretty awful).
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    Fine, We’ll Start Recycling!Mary Mattingly’s Dry Season paints a bleak picture of Earth’s future.
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    Scrip CentralPerhaps riding on the Whitney’s psychedelic coat tails, the Lower East Side’s Envoy Gallery’s August exhibition is now showcasing works by Alain Dister — a French photographer who spent the better part of the sixties taking in Stateside sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
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    Dash Snow’s Latest Hot MessYou may recall reading about Dash Snow and Dan Colen’s infamous “Hamster Nest,†a Dada-esque mass of shredded telephone books “installed†in hotel rooms around the world. Now’s your chance to experience it firsthand.
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    Masked and AnonymousIn his late-seventies series Arthur Rimbaud in New York, David Wojnarowicz seems to have airlifted the legendary poet from late-nineteenth-century Paris and dropped him into a crappy Manhattan walk-up.
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    The Devil Inside the InternetArt for the Harry Potter–loving/Hackers-watching/anti-capitalist computer geek in you.
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    After the FloodJapanese artist Takashi Horisaki’s bleak vision of post-Katrina New Orleans looks like something out of Will Smith’s latest apocalypse movie.
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    Kanye West Meets Takashi MurakamiWhat is Kanye saying, exactly?
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    Clowns: TerrifyingThis Joker-like character may lack the sex appeal of Heath Ledger’s brooding villain, but he’s got the whole nefarious-psycho-clown thing down.
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    The Mathematics of Jackson Pollock on a Street Corner in InwoodIn an impressive display of academic vandalism, uptown artist Mike Saijo created his bigger-than-life work Pollock Equation from pages torn from an advanced mathematics textbook, over which Saijo printed a photo of Jackson Pollock in all his wily glory.
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    Knocked Up The Friedrich Petzel Gallery asked sixteen artists to reinterpret Willem de Kooning’s sixties-era “Door Cycle,†a series of wooden doors featuring grotesque female figures.
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    Art That Sells UnderpantsJanaina Tschäpe transforms her models into colorful, imagined creatures — flora–meets–fauna–meets–Fruit of the Loom mascot.
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    Beck and Ryan Adams Design Books, Don’t Embarrass ThemselvesPenguin has musicians design book covers for their favorite Penguin Classics.
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    A Lemonade and an AK-47 to Share, PleaseMarcel Broodthaer’s Décor: A Conquest (1975).
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    Jeremy Blake’s Body IdentifiedAccording to a report in the Asbury Park Press, a body discovered four miles off the New Jersey coast on July 22 has been positively identified as that of missing artist Jeremy Blake.
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    Mozart Goes to the Laser ShowThe OpenEnded Group, “Masses I†from “Breath†(2007).
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    Self-Portrait As Twelve Confused SchoolboysThink of it as a visual analogue to Spring Awakening — if John Gallagher Jr. had insisted on playing all the roles.
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    Extreme Makeover: Hotel EditionChris Doyle asked 45 artists to create short films in or around hotel rooms in Connecticut.
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    Inflaming LipsEl Museo del Barrio’s fifth annual “Bienal: The (S) Files†opened yesterday, with enough paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, sculptures, multimedia works, and site-specific installations to choke a starving artist.
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    Jeremy Blake’s Body Found?Updates forthcoming, but this just gets sadder and sadder.
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    Woman Devalues Priceless Painting With Her CootiesEarlier this week, 30-year-old Sam Rindy was so enthralled by a Cy Twombly painting in an Avignon, France, museum that she kissed it, leaving a red lipstick mark.
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    So You Think You Can CurateApexart’s The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, up through August 11, started as an open call for amateur curators (i.e. anyone willing to slap a “curated by†in front of their names).
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