Kelly Hill

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Kelly Hill is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Sotheby’s Institute of Art here in New York. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in May of 2011, majoring in History of Art and Anthropology, with a minor in World Politics. She is originally from Cincinnati, OH, and has always had an appreciation for art since a young age, with her mom being an artist herself.

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Portraits with Raw Meat, Placentas, and Custom-Fitted Catsuits
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Photographer Pinar Yolaçan accessorizes the women in her portraits with raw meat and animal parts.

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A Celebrated Director from Istanbul, Underappreciated in the US
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Whenever Ferzan Özpetek returns to his native Istanbul, he’s greeted as a hero.

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Istanbul's Must-See Art and Culture Institutions
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After you’ve hit up the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the 3,000-vendors-strong Grand Bazaar, make sure to visit these museums.

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Helmut Newton: Sex and Landscapes
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Gallerist Perry Rubenstein unveils his new space in LA with an exhibition by late photographer and provocateur Helmut Newton.

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The Next Crop of Curators Show Their Stuff
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Twelve curators, twenty-nine artists, and 7,000 square feet of space: the fourth edition of Young Curators, New Ideas pulls out all the stops for its biggest iteration yet.

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Los Angeles Finally Has a Biennial
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Los Angeles has long had its rightful place in art history obscured by the influence of New York, but the last few years have started to reverse decades of neglect.

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The Manifesta 9 Biennial Descends into the Deep
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Manifesta 9, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, opens June 2 in Genk, Belgium and runs through September 30th. Beginning in the early 1990s, the biennial was created to bring Europe back together through art after the end of the Cold War. This year’s curatorial theme is The Deep of the Modern, inspired by the area’s history as a major coal mining region.

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James Franco vs. James Dean
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Famous actor and shameless dilettante James Franco has made short work of his art career since his first solo show only two years ago at Clocktower Gallery. His latest project at LA MOCA is based on Nicholas Ray’s classic 1955 film Rebel Without A Cause.

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A Family at the Center of the Parisian Avant-Garde
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The Steins Collect at the Metropolitan Museum of Art demonstrates how Gertrude, Leo, Michael, and Sarah Stein promoted and supported some of the greatest artists of their time, including Matisse and Picasso.

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Kehinde Wiley in Israel: Can we all get along?
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In his Israel series, Wiley brings together the contemporary—the young men who pose for the portraits—and the traditional—the ceremonial papercuts that are the source for the backgrounds—to create a dynamic new form that empowers and enlivens both.

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Summer Projects from Public Art Fund
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In 1977 Doris C. Freedman merged public art programs City Walls and the Public Arts Council to form Public Art Fund, which has produced more then five hundred projects all over New York City, bringing work by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Anish Kapoor, Sol Lewitt, and Sarah Sze to the public. This summer Public Art Fund is presenting three new projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn with the first going up May 24th at City Hall Park.

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Kenny Scharf: A Hodgepodge of Cartoons, Cadillacs, and Cosmic Caverns
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Kenny Scharf’s newest show, Hodgepodge at Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, incorporates everything from a fluorescent Cosmic Cavern installation to The New and Improved Ultima Suprema Deluxa, a modified Cadillac covered in paintings.

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