Crime

KNOW // The World's Greatest Art Market Is Faking It
Cameron Meade |
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Industry experts suggest that China’s art market is being used as a front for bribery.

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SEE // Gangland in Midtown
Spencer Nelson |
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Weegee: apolitical paparazzi, ambulance-and-cop-chasing cameramen, and high art photographer.

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Artists Against Gun Violence
Georgina Wells |
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Can an artist produce an iconic image or gesture in the fight against gun violence?

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The Fake Matisse That Hung in a Museum for Two Years (And Was Missing for Ten)
Tiffany Jow |

Matisse’s Odalisque in Red Pants has been stolen, forged, peddled, and finally, recovered. Confused? Keep your pants on.

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In a Corner of Spanish Harlem, an Artist Records a Latino Struggle
Spencer Nelson |
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Secreted away in the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, an award-winning photographer shoots extreme poverty and extreme violence.

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Artists Use Technology to Investigate Our Dystopian Future
Amanda Ryan |
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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
Amanda Ryan |
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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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Don't Miss Picasso and Gilot at Gagosian
Spencer Nelson |

Gagosian’s Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953 takes on the life and work of both Picasso and his then-mistress Françoise Gilot.

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1980s Williamsburg: Where Car Parts Go to Die
Tiffany Jow |
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Photographer James Cathcart captures the unofficial graveyards for planes and automobiles, some of which might have once been in your very own backyard.

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Gilbert & George Steal Thousands of UK Crime Posters
Tiffany Jow |
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Every day for six years, the British artist duo Gilbert & George stole gruesome and lurid posters advertising the day’s newspaper headlines.

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