Amanda Ryan

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Amanda is the NYC Events Editor at Artlog. In her free time, she occasionally writes for fashion and culture blog Cellar Paper and collaborates with digital publishing house RATIOGOLD. She completed her BA in Political Science at NYU with a focus on international relations and development.

Posts written by Amanda Ryan

Are These Olympic Portraits a Critique of American Heroism Or Just Plain Incompetent?
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Photographer Joe Klamar caught some flack for his less-than-flattering portraits of the US Olympic Team.

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Artists Use Technology to Investigate Our Dystopian Future
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Heather Dewey-Hagborg imagines a not-so-distant future in which police sketches are made using current DNA technology, and Paolo Cirio promotes activism with transmedia storytelling.

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The Mystery of the Lost (and Found) Dalí
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A Dalí painting was stolen from Venus Over Manhattan gallery, only to be returned a week later.

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Celebrate America by Blowing Something Up
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In celebration of the Fourth of July, here are a few artists who have used fireworks and explosions in their work, from drawing on walls to collaborating with research laboratories to creatively disposing of others’ artworks.

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Art in NYC: Time to Get Wet
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This Week in NYC, meet Wendy, this year’s Young Architects Project at MoMA PS1, check out the Guggenheim’s new photography show, and take a dip in the brand spankin’ new McCarren Park Pool.

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Analog Music Makers Unite!
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A celebration of the Buchla 200e, the Bugatti of modular analog synthesizers.

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Monuments to Youth, the Beach, and Clubbing
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In the vein of Kehinde Wiley’s Renaissance-inspired paintings, Rineke Dijkstra creates monumental photos of ordinary people.

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The Brooklyn Museum Wants YOU to be a Curator
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Ever dreamed of curating the next big museum show? The Brooklyn Museum’s GO Project wants your input.

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Flip Flops Required at This Summer Group Show
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Martos Gallery’s project space, Shoot the Lobster, has the cure for your unimaginative summer group show blues.

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Jon Kessler and Mika Rottenberg Want to Juice Your Chakra
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Jon Kessler and Mika Rottenberg “juice the chakras” of seven participants. What does “juicing a chakra” mean, you ask?

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This Week in NYC: A Fictional Artist by Jonathan Safran Foer, Sharon Hayes' Protests, and a Pile of Salt
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This week in NYC, author Jonathan Safran Foer fabricates a fictional artist for an exhibition, the Whitney Museum presents Sharon Hayes’ protest art, and the LUMEN Festival uses a mountain of salt as its backdrop. For more summer picks, check out ARTLOG’s Summer Art Guide.

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Artists Use a Mountain of Salt as Their Canvas
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This year, The LUMEN International Video and Performance Festival received an enormous gift— 150,000 tons of salt.

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