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Paging: Bob Nickas on Abstraction

You could say Bob Nickas behaves more like an artist than a critic. Since moving to New York in 1984, he has developed a reputation for being a truly independent voice in his field, working against the prevailing narratives of  contemporary art without compromise. Nickas has curated over 80 exhibitions and from 2003 and 2006 served as curatorial advisor for PS1. In 1994 he co-founded the highly influential, now-defunct Index Magazine with artist Peter Halley.

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The Price is (Sometimes, Arbitrarily) Right

Paintings sold for cheap in non-art venues is usually something artists leave off an exhibition history. For Max Schumann, it's the foundation of a lifelong practice. Since moving to New York 20 years ago, Schumann has installed a steady series of shows all over the downtown area, ranging in quotidian function from supermarkets to nightclubs to a theater lobby; and selling his artworks, small, figurative acrylic paintings on cardboard, at affordable prices.
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Pre-P.C.: AA Bronson Republishes His Famous Erotica

Artist AA Bronson (born Michael Tims) was a founding member of the Toronto art collective General Idea (1969–1994), who published seminal artist magazine File Megazine and founded the artist bookstore Art Metropole in 1974. Since the deaths of his collaborators, he has established a solo career as a multimedia artist and worked as the President of Printed Matter, Inc. A new edition of Bronson's early work of fiction shows the artist expanding the book format through experimental, sexual models early on.

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Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York.

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