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OPEN CALL: EYEBEAM FELLOWSHIPS 2010 APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 11, 2009. All applicants will be informed of their application status by January 15, 2010. CONTEXT: Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the USA. Our unique collaborative environment fosters fellowships and residencies, research, education, public programming, and a vital web space, eyebeam.org. We are located in the heart of NYC’s Chelsea art district in a resource rich 15,000 sq.ft. space. Please see the Fellows and Projects sections of our web site for information on current and previous work developed at Eyebeam. OVERVIEW: Eyebeam is seeking applications from artists...

Last night, Lady Gaga reaffirmed her specialness by meeting the Queen! As did Miley Cyrus, Mika, and Alexandra Burke, who did not wear red PVC cloaks and also probably did not behave ridiculously enough for papers to write entire articles about them today. (Gaga's plastic gown actually reminds...

Chicago artist Josue Pellot deploys several mediums and styles in order to examine his Puerto Rican roots as transplanted into the quintessential American experience – that is, as mediated by pop culture and consumerism in his current exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center.��� Thus, he displays...

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• Photographer Ryan McGinley is shooting a portfolio of athletes from the Winter Olympics wearing outfits designed by Rodarte. [Hint Mag via Fashionologie]

• Many retailers, like Gap and Brooks Bros., are poised to offer more markdowns and shopping events this month to offset the lull...

POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON All images: AFC The best versions of countless works I’ve seen in my travels to fairs and biennials over the course of last year are currently on display in The Rubell Family Collection’s exhibition “Beg, Borrow and Steal.”���A curators-delight, the show focuses on the at times tediously trendy subject of reproduction [...]

Richard Wright, winner of the Turner Prize. The highly intricate gold-leaf painting across one wall of the gallery is the artist’s most complex work to date. (Photo: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images) A graffiti artist has taken this year’s Turner Prize. It’s the sort of announcement that would...

Through 1907, when Vasily Kandinsky was entering his forties, he was a regional artist of little consequence. He had yet to make a painting that was all his. Then something happened. 'Kandinsky,' a major retrospective on view at the Guggenheim...