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Anyone looking for a crash course on the "contemporary" should head to New York City over the coming weeks. A recent blitz of the city's nonprofits and commercial spaces revealed one of the best seasons in years. Right now, an art trip to New York needs to start with the better part of a day spent at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, in a huge old school in Queens.  

The Northern Arizona University graduate is originally from Phoenix and currently lives in Albany. Q: What brought you out this way? A: After I finished school, I was uncertain about what I wanted to do.  

Shiao-Ping Wang immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1981 along with family members. She found a husband, home, and a new career. Today Wang is a full-time artist.  

By my count, it has been more than six years since the curators at the Yale University Art Gallery organized a show of contemporary art in all media. That is difficult to understand, given that the museum collects in this area and primarily serves students, including those studying at the nearby Yale School of Art. The wait, however, has been worth it. "Continuous Present," which examines how artists are working with ideas of time, presents some terrific contemporary artwork in an engaging yet scholarly  

Taslima Nasreen is banking on an appeal from Italian poets, writers and artists to Sonia Gandhi to let her live freely in India, including Calcutta. "One thousand Italian poets, writers and artists have written to Sonia Gandhi describing my plight and requesting her permission to help me lead a free life in India…. I hope she will respond. I'm living a nomadic life," Taslima told Metro from Paris on Friday, exactly two years after fundamentalists held the city to ransom demanding that she be thrown out.

One thousand Italian poets, writers and artists have written to Sonia Gandhi describing my plight and requesting her permission to help me lead a free life in India…. I hope she will respond. I’m living a nomadic life   -Taslima Nasreen

 

The mission of the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg is to collect, exhibit, preserve and interpret the art and archives of Frederic Remington, but as our Sarah Hagen tells us, that mission also means being able to spot fakes and forgeries. OGDENSBURG, N.Y. -- Experts say Frederic Remington was the most popular artist in America at the turn of the century. Frederic Remington Art Museum Curator Laura Foster said, "His work kept him in a very comfortable lifestyle. And it was profitable from t

His work kept him in a very comfortable lifestyle. And it was profitable from the time of Remington's death in 1909 onward, for people to create objects that they could sell as Remington Artworks.   -Laura Foster

 

No kiddin'. About 10 years ago, I met a girl via IRC (of all places..) and arranged to have coffee with her one night. Seemed fairly cute from the photo she tossed me, which, of course, was just of her face.  

Opening tomorrow night, November 21st, Euphoria Left The Room comes to Scion's Installation L.A. Gallery. The show is a group exhibition curated by Judith Schwarzbart –curator of the Copenhagen Quadrennial: U-TURN, that seeks to question what fragments of avant-garde thinking and visual experimentation are still at work in contemporary art practice. This exhibition addresses the fate of creative and visionary imagination, which through the 20th century, was set free though a sense of experimentation dem  

The tabular content relating to this article is not available to view. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience caused. Christie's owner François Pinault, artist Jeff Koons and Louvre museum director Henri Loyrette were just a few of the art world movers and shakers who flew into Abu Dhabi this week for the launch of Abu Dhabi Art. The event, a "cultural platform" including an art fair, was put together at breakneck speed this summer by the Emirati authorities and continues until tomorrow.