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    Artist Jeremy Blake’s Disappearance: Suicide? Scientology?The mysterious circumstances surrounding the apparent double suicide of video artist Jeremy Blake and his filmmaking girlfriend, Theresa Duncan, have conspiracy theorists, uh, theorizing.
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    The Very Model of a Successful Duel“How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Ladies),†by Yinka Shonibare MBE (2006).
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    Charles Sandison’s Illegible ‘Utopia’Sandison immerses gallerygoers in this ever-morphing manifestation of More’s imagined paradise.
  4. the take
    What’s the Story With Errol Morris’s New ‘Times’ Blog?Though Errol Morris is an amazing director, he’s not much of a blogger yet.
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    Artist Jeremy Blake Is MissingSad news about a visual artist and Beck collaborator.
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    Rest-Stop Mystery From a Leipzig Up-and-ComerA semi-voyeuristic tableau of questionable rest-stop happenings from Miriam Vlaming.
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    A Weekend With the ‘Elevator Girls’Japanese artist Miwa Yanagi.
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    Artist Manages to Make Britain’s First Couple Look Even Less LifelikeWhile strolling through group shows on the Lower East Side the other day, we came across the latest contribution to the genre of celebutard portraiture.
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    Dirty, HairyParisian artist Renaud Muraire deifies modern beauties, dressing our “icons†with the same sort of signifiers once used to suggest divinity and the sublime.
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    Always a BridesmaidWe wonder what the bride was wearing in this Lee Friedlander photo.
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    Russians Manage to Produce Impressive Architecture Despite Oppression. In Your Face, Stalin!Richard Pare’s photo of the Shabolovka Radio Tower.
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    A Danish Drama Plucked From the PastJesper Just’s new film, A Vicious Undertow, currently on display at the Perry Rubenstein Gallery, plays like a poetic forties-era drama.
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    What Is This? An Art Studio for Ants?Joe Fig’s tiny, meticulously crafted miniature replicas of famous artists’ studios, up at Southampton’s Parrish Art Museum through August 5, are every art nerd’s—and doll house enthusiast’s—happiest dream.
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    Brooklyn’s Next Viral Marketing CampaignAn intriguing mash-up of short story, video game, and street art is currently unfolding on the sidewalks of San Francisco’s Mission District.
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    Mario Testino Comes HomeThe salon-style, Mario Testino–curated exhibition “At Home†opened yesterday at Yvon Lambert to a crowd of hipsters, models, art world royalty (Rachel Feinstein! John Currin!), Sienna Miller (looking as Edie-esque as ever), and Testino himself.
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    Dennis Hopper Would Be ProudAs inextricable from youthful folly as they may be, road trips, in the purest sense, are somewhat foreign to New Yorkers — at least to those of us who haven’t driven in years. Get in touch with the rest of the country and check out the blissfully nostalgic “Easy Rider: Road Trips through America,†opening tomorrow at Yancey Richardson.
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    Born to Be a Moody Think PieceSure, “The Atrocity Exhibition,†up at Thierry Goldberg Projects through July 28, may be the thematic Debbie Downer of summer shows — especially when compared to whimsical uppers like Smith Stewart’s exhibition “She Was Born to Be My Unicorn.â€
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    A Riot of Film From Katharina SieverdingKatharina Sieverding’s Transformer rounds out the pro-fem show “Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution,†now in its last week at L.A.’s Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Sieverding’s drag-ish, seventies-era film reels (seen here in a still from her video projection) are what we’d imagine Warhol’s “Film Stills†might have looked like had Marilyn Manson been his on-set stylist.
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    Last CallLatex sculptor Christoph Broich’s installation Voluptuous Panic, on view as of today at the Lower East Side’s Envoy Gallery, plays like an abstract bacchanalian cavalry.
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    Making Cindy Sherman ProudMercedes Helnwein’s immaculately executed drawings play out like dramatically lit, attractively cast indie flicks. To wit: In various works a jaded Lower East Side spinster type acts coy, wears torturously high heels, and poses half-naked with a duck.
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    The Multitasking BuddhaRudolf Stingel, the art critics’ darling whose highly anticipated retrospective opened this weekend at the Whitney, has a funny way of exploring artistic process. While he’s best known for his colossal minimalist constructions (Styrofoam “canvases,†transformative installations — both of which are on view at the Whitney), we kind of like the look of this multitasking Buddha: a tranquil (though perhaps maniacal) take on artistic apprenticeship.
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    L.A. Designers Bring Touch of Whimsy to New York HipstersThis year’s weekly “Warm Up†dance party at P.S.1 gets an aesthetic boost from Ball–Nogues’ whimsical, kaleidoscopic installation.
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    Artists, Meet Your MakersAs summer group shows abound, it’s refreshing to see one of the megagalleries taking a vintage approach.
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    Nothing a Nice Wall Hanging Wouldn’t FixThe Venice Biennale is essentially a highbrow round of show-and-tell as galleries from around the world boast their best and brightest.
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    Buy Bad Art From Zach Galifianakis!New York by New York is an experiment in six parts. We’re collaborating with some of our favorite bands, D.J.’s, vegan chefs, comedians, and underqualified art auctioneers on an event a month (six in all) through the fall.
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    Factory Boy
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    Palm Trees and Camouflage Do-rags, Happy TogetherFor her showing at this summer’s Documenta 12 (the show staged every five years in Kassel, Germany, at which Jeff Koons was famously discovered decades ago), Bosnia-born artist Danica Dakic gets at a new kind of “teenage wasteland.â€
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    That’s Mister Mr. to YouTakashi Murakami has already spawned multiple editions of just about every object imaginable — so it was only a matter of time before he spawned a candy-colored disciple too (or two, or, twenty, actually). Enter the first: Mr. (yes, just Mr.), a mysterious protégé and a product of Murakami’s “factoryâ€-like Kaikai Kiki company-collective. Mr. wraps up his New York solo debut tomorrow at Lehmann Maupin. —Rachel Wolff
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    Take That, Splasher!Back in town for his first local solo show in seven years, RISD-trained street-art wunderkind, and habitual “splasher†victim Shepard Fairey takes it inside for two concurrent shows, the first of which opens tonight at 81 Front Street.
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    Same Summer: Where’s the Love?Though you wouldn’t know it from the Whitney’s punch-drunk “Summer of Love†show, the sixties were hardly just peace, love, and LSD.
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    General Tso’s ArmyUnlike most guys in New York, Edward Burtynsky isn’t just looking at China’s breakneck development to make a buck (or a billion). The photographer, subject of Manufacturing Landscapes, a new doc opening today at Film Forum, makes bizarrely beautiful, enormous photographs of China’s new industrial revolution.
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    Flash Fire
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    Take Your Skull and Shove It (We’re Talking to You, Hirst)
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    Getting Inside the Brain of Richard Serra
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    What Other Crap Can Damien Hirst Encrust in Diamonds?Damien Hirst’s diamond skull, rumored to be purchased soon for around £50 million, is the talk of Europe, with some amused by the British artist’s cheek and some enraged by his gall. But what will Hirst do for an encore? We’ve got the scoop.
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    ‘Crazy Love’: The Crazy Art Show
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    Annotated Artwork: Ripping and Shredding the Art MarketRon Rocheleau, the one-man editing machine behind the mid-nineties Public Access hit Concrete TV, is back with a solo debut at Chelsea’s Cristinerose. After a thirteen-year hiatus from galleries, Concrete Ron has abandoned the crash footage, porn tapes, and B-movie clips of his TV days.
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    Party at Our House!
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    Marilyn Minter Fails to Make Nice With the Fashion Crowd, Art-World Hopefuls
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    Slideshow: The Homeless ‘Get Lost’ Show
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    Lou Reed Remembers Muhammad Ali
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    Will Natalie Portman Star in Danielle Ganek’s ‘Lulu’?
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    Caution: This Art Might Make You Seasick
  45. the take
    Why Did Warhol’s ‘Green Car Crash’ Sell?
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    Video: Meeting Michael Jackson Is Easy
  47. the industry
    Batten Down the Scenery: De Niro, Pacino Back Together
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    Who Actually Bought the Rothko? (Hint: The ‘Times’ Was Wrong!)
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    Mars Investigations Closed for Good?
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    ‘New York’ Magazine Loves William Powhida. Sort of.
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    Americans Get Outbid at Sotheby’s and Christie’s
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