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A visitor snaps a photo of a sculpture by Will Kurtz at the Portal art fair.

George Washington’s Former Stomping Grounds Host Art Made of Trash

The government monument hosts a scrappy new art fair called Portal, which features large-scale installations and artwork by 28 artists.
By Alanna Martinez
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New Art Fair to Occupy Wall Street’s Federal Hall Building This Spring

The Portal Art Fair will take place May 4 through 10 (with a preview on May 3) and is being organized by the folks responsible for the highly popular—and anything but conventional—Governors Island Art Fair.
By Alanna Martinez
Among them, Uzbekistan-born sculptor Aleksandr Razin whose massive outdoor work made of car bumpers, titled Universal Butterfly, is a showstopper. (The fair "boosted its 'call'" for outdoor sculptures this year, according to Mr. Zito.) If you peer carefully through a porthole tucked away on one side you'll catch an optical illusion formed by slivers of light cutting through a shaft in the sculpture's interior—the effect, according to the artist, looks much like a fluttering butterfly.

Homegrown Art Fair Takes Over Historic Mansions on Governors Island

The fair features over 100 artists whose work occupy nearly 100 rooms between four of the Colonels Row houses.
By Alanna Martinez

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