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Co-curators Victoria Yee Howe and Sierra Stinson discuss their 48-hour pop up gallery and shop on wheels hitting the streets of New York City this weekend.

Looking back on December 2010. artist Yumiko Furukawa returns with “Art Review Drawings 002” on press releases. Summer 2011 reviews coming soon,

What is Madonna’s “Material Girl” but an adaptive re-performance of Marilyn Monroe’s “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”?

As the MAD panel participants discussed, the fragmentation of the nightlife scene into distinct spheres has not prevented the weekly parties from enduring as spaces where uninhibited expressions of marginal identities may still be celebrated.

One of the key 1980s New York artists, Jean-Michel Basquiat did not make it to the publication in the last minute due to a dispute with the Basquiat Estate.

“Many of our relationships in Japan have confirmed that they are okay, but this is an incredibly difficult time in this part of the world and we wanted to do all that we can to help.”

This is a project of artist Yumiko Furukawa titled “Art Review Drawings,” drawing on press release paper collected by and drawn on by the artist and new NYABlog “drawing” reviewer.

If you’ve seen “Greater New York” already, time your next visit with a performance, have a glimpse at the exhibition’s machinery and see for yourself the extent of its evolution.

Mining the trove of artists here is lucrative for a first-time viewer, but don’t be turned off if you’ve seen something before. Have another look, and you may well surprise yourself.

Set to be a weekly event throughout the month of July, ‘Noches’ will bring the public face-to-face with a variety of emerging New York artists to facilitate conversation among artists and their peers in an intimate space.