Carolina A. Miranda

Carolina A. Miranda appears in the following:

Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?

Friday, April 29, 2011

At Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MOCA), a big new survey called Art in the Streets looks at the last forty years of graffiti. Not coincidentally, the LAPD arrested seve...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, April 28, 2011

WNYC
The Whitney Museum takes a trip back to the early 20th century, Willem de Kooning's figures go on view at Pace, a British street art gets a solo in Brooklyn and an unheralded Africa...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, April 21, 2011

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The Met re-opens its rooftop with modernist sculpture. Kara Walker tackles race, power and identity in new graphite drawings. And, for the night owls, there's a highly intriguing ga...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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An array of floating paper guns, paintings that chronicle Picasso's 17-year-old lover and muse, smashed up cars, sculptural drawings, public interventions and a quilt that pays trib...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, April 07, 2011

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The artful civil rights photographs of Charles Moore, Romantic paintings of idealized European vistas, masterful drawings by Rembrandt and a rare gallery show that puts a spotlight ...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, March 31, 2011

WNYC

Neon wall texts inspired by Samuel Beckett, paper constructions that mimic indigenous totems and an event that celebrates failure. Not to mention pictures of Frida Kahlo and turbulent paintings that pay tribute to Gotham's darker attributes. New York (and environs) has got it going on this week. Our guide to what's tops.

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Notes From Underground

Monday, March 28, 2011

WNYC

Artist Alexander Chen has turned New York city's subway map into a digital work of musical art—that you can play.

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, March 24, 2011

WNYC
Eye-popping German Expressionism, racy underground comix, the found object as found object, vintage works that aren't and a photographic chronicle of New York's avant-garde in the 1...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Exhibits examining new wave and post-War Japanese culture, a New York photographer's chronicle of gay culture and urban decay in the '70s, and a New Jersey painter's work inspired by ...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, March 10, 2011

WNYC
An exhibit that explores the art of painting and identity at the Whitney, extraordinary pre-Columbian tunics at the Met, quirky illustrations at the Jewish Museum and a temporary in...
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The Axe as Art

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

The guitar is the focus of three separate exhibits currently on display in New York. From mixed-media representations by Picasso to exquisitely crafted instruments by luthier John Monteleone, we examine the axe as art with critic and WNYC regular, Carolina Miranda.

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Rubin Museum Hosts Pajama Party

Monday, March 07, 2011

WNYC
On Saturday night, more than 80 artsy types in pajamas filed into the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea for its first ever adults-only sleepover. The purpose: to see what sorts of dream...
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New York Art Fair Report: Bring on the Big, the Ballerinas and the Meat-Grinders

Friday, March 04, 2011

WNYC
It's Armory Arts Week in New York, which means we've got art events coming out of our ears through Sunday. Here's a taste of what you can expect to see, including a visual round-up of...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, March 03, 2011

WNYC
David Wojnarowicz (of Smithsonian censorship fame) gets his due in Chelsea, the influence of Russian abstractionist Kazimir Malevich is charted at Gagosian Gallery and the Brooklyn ...
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At the Queens Museum: Luis Márquez In the World of Tomorrow

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

WNYC
In a curious exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art, curators Itala Schmelz and Ernesto Peñaloza of the National Automomous University in Mexico City have put together a highly intriguin...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, February 24, 2011

WNYC
The Koran reconfigured, the changing face of William Shakespeare, an installation that combines architecture and photography and a Brooklyn-based artist who works with found images of...
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Empire State Flashback

Friday, February 18, 2011

WNYC
As part of our Empire Tweets Back project—in which we watch all eight hours of Andy Warhol's film "Empire"—we did a little rooting around in the WNYC and Museum of Modern Art archiv...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, February 17, 2011

WNYC
Tipis in Brooklyn, wry illustrations in Chelsea, drawings inspired by photography in SoHo and cartoons that poke fun at the art world at John Jay. Herewith, our guide to what's cook...
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Watching (and Tweeting) Andy Warhol's 'Empire'

Thursday, February 17, 2011

WNYC

Warhol's marathon eight-hour film of the iconic Empire State Building has long been talked about, but rarely seen. On Friday, WNYC Culture goes to the movies.

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Thursday, February 10, 2011

WNYC

Picasso's guitars, Cézanne's card players, abstraction and the Arctic, not to mention a wonderful documentary about hobo graffiti. New York has got it going on this week. Here is WNYC's guide to what's tops.

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