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'Particularly in America as an Arab-American, to win this award and have an exhibition at the Guggenheim museum, I feel incredibly honored.'
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Two strippers dressed as cops wheel out a cake decorated with Picasso's 'Guernica,' tempting the gallery owner yet again.
Tom Sachs: Grand Theft Auto ‘The Most Important Artwork of Our Time’
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Chuck Close to Paint Zhang Huan's Giant Head All by Himself
Zhang Huan uses 100 studio assistants. "I'm a schmuck," says Close, "I've been doing all my own work."
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.
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.
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.”
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.
MoMA's Glenn Lowry Bares All in Dubai
During 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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