Art Review | Whitney Biennial 2008 By HOLLAND COTTER
Advertisements for the 2008 Whitney Biennial promise a show that will tell us “where American art stands today,” although we basically already know. A lot of new art stands in the booths of international art fairs, where styles change fast, and one high-polish item instantly replaces […]
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By PENELOPE GREEN ANN LOFTIN could write a textbook on the nuances of modern psychotherapeutic methods — and the personality types of their practitioners — based on the home office décor of the therapists who have treated her. There was the strict Freudian whose couch was covered in plastic and who barely […]
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Fashion Diary By GUY TREBAY Paris
HUGE crowds gathered last summer at the Russian pavilion of the Venice Biennale to see a three-screen video installation by a collective known as AES+F. Filled with dreamy computer-game landscapes, scary monsters, rocket ships, carousels and nearly naked post-pubescent models engaged in elaborate mock battles, “Last […]
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Weekend in New York | Street Art By SETH KUGEL
OUT-OF-TOWN visitors are excused if they get overwhelmed walking down a busy New York City street. There’s so much going on that no one can possibly take it all in.
Natives long ago learned to filter the sensory onslaught: some exclusively people watch (looking for fashion […]
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