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Trans Am 2016 Race, day 7

By Cycling
The Trans American Bike Race (TABR) launched on Saturday morning, June 4th.  From Oregon to Virginia, the Trans Am is the hardest unsupported road race in the US.  At 4400 miles, it's twice as long as the Tour de France. Day 7 Trans Am Race Report - With one week…
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Trans Am 2016 Race, day 5

By Cycling
The Trans American Bike Race (TABR) launched on Saturday morning, June 4th.  From Oregon to Virginia, the Trans Am is the hardest unsupported road race in the US.  At 4400 miles, it's twice as long as the Tour de France. Day 5:  Just another day as usua… whoah there.  Just…
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Trans Am 2016 Race, day 4

By Cycling
The Trans American Bike Race (TABR) launched on Saturday morning, June 4th.  From Oregon to Virginia, the Trans Am is the hardest unsupported road race in the US.  At 4400 miles, it's twice as long as the Tour de France. Day 4: Sarah *the Aussassin* Hammond rode through the night…
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Unfinished, at the Met Breuer

By Exhibitions
The "Unfinished" exhibition at the Met Breuer is truly a magnificent collection of paintings. I say that with some care as it's debatable whether or not the exhibition is great on its own or as a group of orphaned works spanning eras and demographics held together only by the academic…
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Eating X.Ray Burns

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I've spent 20 years of Sunday afternoons listening to the radio broadcast "The Glen Jones Radio Programme featuring X.Ray Burns", from WFMU at 91.1fm out of New Jersey, come rain or shine–including frigid Sundays listening in piles of snow on my roof, with my foot jiggling the antenna and drinking…
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Richard Pousette-Dart at Pace

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Pousette-Dart was the youngest of the big AbEx painters.  As such, he was able to live beyond the gravity of the hype and take that manic and energetic (action) painting and retreat into a sort of existential minimalism.  Pace Gallery, in one of its many Chelsea galleries, has created an…
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