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| Stephanie Schroeder - Q+A Linda Stein - Curve Magazine, March 2008 | |
| The sculptor Linda Stein may be best known as one of the “commoners” duped by Sacha Baron Cohen in his 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan—and for writing and giving interviews about that... |
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| Linda Stein - Give Borat the boot - Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2008 | |
| THE commentary on Sacha Baron Cohen's mothballing of his character Borat ["Dissecting the Tao of 'Borat' -- Did We Learn?" by Hillel Felman, Jan. 4] is wildly off the mark.... |
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| By Hillel Felman - Dissecting the Tao of 'Borat' -- did we learn? - Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2008 | |
| The Kazakh 'journalist' played off of Americans' self-consciousness of the moment about their international image.... |
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| Skip Sheffield - Linda Stein; Nathan D. Rosen Gallery; Boca Raton, Florida - Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2008 | |
| Linda Stein is an artist and pacifist with a knight-errant’s passion for protecting the world. “The Power to Protect: Sculpture of Linda Stein” showed the latest evolutionary turn in her work, which encompasses calligraphy, drawing, painting, and... |
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| BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO - Women’s Bodies as Art, Wrinkles and All - The New York Times, July 8, 2007 | |
| “Heroes,” by Linda Stein, part of a show that balances ideology and flair. |
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| IAN YOUNGS - Artist gets even after Borat hoax - BBC News, June 14, 2007 | |
| An artist who was duped into appearing in the Borat film has got her revenge on the hoaxer by giving him a starring role in her new set of sculptures.... |
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| Robin Gelfand - Sculptor Linda Stein's Warrior Women: The Safety of Objects - The Boca Raton Observer, March 2007 | |
| Through her art, particularly her sculpture, she created her own "bodyguards" using nothing but her hands and imagination. In doing so, she built a fortress of protection around herself, giving a feeling of refuge from a world spinning out of control.... |
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| RESHMA KIRPALANI - The Power To Protect: Sculpture Of Linda Stein - Boca News, January 14, 2007 | |
| Her torso is magnificent: a thick, sturdy terrain of welded bronze whose feminine curves belie her formidable weight of four hundred pounds. Her form protrudes from the smooth yellow wall of the Nathan Rosen Museum, a tribute to the depths of Linda Stein. |
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| LEWIS GOLDBERG - Make Benefit Glorious Boca - New Times Broward-Palm Beach, January 7. 2007 | |
| There are some very funny moments with artist Linda Stein in Sacha Baron Cohen’s hit film Borat (she’s one of the feminist chicks he interviews – remember?) but the New York City artist who had the good (mis)fortune to have been skewered by everyone’s fav |
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| SKIP SHEFFIELD - Linda Stein, “The Woman Who Stood Up To Borat,” Introduces “Warrior Woman” at Rosen Gallery - Boca News Online, January 8, 2007 | |
| Linda Stein has grown into international prominence in the 20 years since her work first appeared at Boca’s Gallery Camino Real and the Boca Raton Museum of Art.... |
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| - “The Power to Protect: Sculpture of Linda Stein” at the Nathan D. Rosen Museum - artknowledgenews.com, December 20, 2006 | |
| Boca Raton, FL - Once you feel the strength of Linda Stein’s sculpture, it’s not a surprise that she had the nerve to stand-up to Borat in his current film. Stein’s monumental knights evoke a visceral power of protection impossible to ignore.... |
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| ELLISON WALCOTT - Linda Stein’s defensive armor - Chelsea Now, November 17 - 23, 2006 | |
| In a world where many people feel the ever-looming threat of terrorism and violence, Linda Stein has created sculptures that symbolize strength, but also represent the ongoing feeling of vulnerability.... |
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| KARMEN BEGOVIC - AMERIKANCI NA UDARU LAŽNOG KAZAHSTANSKOG NOVINARA - Globus, November 15, 2006 | |
| Boratovi naturš?ici, ljudi koje je tzv. kazahstanski novinar intervjuirao i prevario kazavši im da snima dokumentarac kojim ?e Kazahstancima pokazati život u Americi, dolazak filma u ameri?ka kina uglavnom su ?ekali sa strepnjom. Zajedni?ko im je da... |
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| HEIDI PATALANO - Borat interview shows artist’s flair - metro new york, OCT 26, 2006 | |
| Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional Kazakhstan reporter “Borat” has already made mischief across the globe with his off-color views and raging libido, posing as a serious reporter until he unleashes questions guaranteed to make any interviewee squirm.... |
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| IAN YOUNGS - How Borat hoaxed America - BBC News, Monday, 23 October 2006 | |
| Spoof Kazakh reporter Borat - aka Ali G comedian Sacha Baron Cohen - is expected to score a box office hit by offending and humiliating real Americans in a new movie.... |
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| LINDA STEIN - How I was duped by Ali G. - Downtown Express, October 13 - 19, 2006 | |
| I click onto the trailer of the upcoming 20th Century Fox movie, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” at the urging of friends. They’re right: I’m in it. The clip shows me in my art studio in Tribeca... |
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| ANDREA PEYSER - THE BORAT TRAP'S BIG CATCH: HOW FAKE KAZAKH FOOLED A FEMINIST - New York Post, October 9, 2006 | |
| October 9, 2006 -- WHAT'S a hard-core feminist gal to do? Linda Stein is a serious artist and a tough, smart lady - possessing a master's degree, a striking set of pectorals and a seat on the board of Veteran Feminists of America.... |
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| LINDA STEIN interviewed by DR. HELEN HARDACRE - The Power to Protect: The Warrior Woman In the Sculpture of Linda Stein - Harvard GLR/Worldwide Magazine, May-June 2006 | |
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| DONALD MILLER - Linda Stein - ARTnews, May 2006 | |
| Longstreth Goldberg Art Naples, Florida The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent war on terror were the motivation and inspiration.... |
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| SHERIDAN SANSEGUNDO - Linda Stein: An Artist of Contradictions - The East Hampton Star, July 7, 2005 | |
| There are artists who work with brutal materials, using welding irons and chisels to bend metal and stone to their will, the floors of their studios littered with detritus. And there are artists who work at clean white tables, their pencils sharp... |
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| MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Max Ernst, Eric Fischl and Linda Stein in New York - Dan's Papers, May 13, 2005 | |
| What do such disparate artists Max Ernst, Eric Fischl and Linda Stein have in common? First is their diverse connection to our local area. Second is their depiction of the figure.... |
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| LINDA STEIN - Knights (A Sculpture Series After 9/11) - HLFQuarterly, 2005 | |
| As I ran, after being evacuated by the police from my Tribeca studio during 9/11... |
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| MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Small Works at Gallery Merz - Dan's Papers, December 10, 2004 | |
| We're also glad to see Linda Stein's metal sculpture... |
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| MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Summer in the City: An Art Critic's Journal - Dan's Papers, August 13, 2004 | |
| Feminist artist Linda Stein . . . |
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| LINDA STEIN - Intrigued By The Face - HLFQuarterly, January 2004 | |
| I can be a pain to friends who want to go to a show with me. I can’t agree to simply get the best seats available because when going to a live performance--whether theatre, opera, dance or lecture--I must sit up close. In fact, even when everyone says the |
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| MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Gallery Hopping, Hamptons' Style - Dan's Papers, September 26, 2003 | |
| We are drawn to the watercolors' subtle, even romantic demeanors, as colors and facial features merge, blur and evolve. |
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| LINDA STEIN - The Machete Blade: An Artist's Search for Security & Strength - HLFQuarterly, Winter 2000 | |
| Dream 3/9/78: Sometimes I’m walking down the street and a group of boys try to rape me. I manage to get a pair of scissors, but I’m more frightened by having the scissors, than not.... |
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| ERIC GERSHON - Dazzling Celestial Sculpture Now Graces Airport Lobby - The Southampton Press (Eastern Edition), Thursday, June 23, 1998 | |
| ... affixed to a wall outside the terminal's entrance, is a fire engine red ... |
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| SHERIDAN SANSEGUNDO - Art Is Up At Airport - The East Hampton Star, June 11, 1998 | |
| The competition is over, the artists have completed their work, and the prizewinning entries are now at the East Hampton Town Airport... |
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| STAFF - Curious As to What This Is? - The East Hampton Independent, June 10, 1998 | |
| Curious as to what this is? This bright red abstract assemblage sculpture by Indy's own art columnist Linda Stein joins work by three other commissioned artists now on permanent display at the East Hampton Airport.... |
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| S.J.F. - Airport Sculpture Finished - The East Hampton Independent, May 20, 1998 | |
| The East Hampton Art Committee, along with Councilman Peter Hammerle, have announced that artist Linda Stein has completed her outdoor sculpture commissioned for the East Hampton Airport... |
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| TOWN OF EAST HAMPTON - STEIN COMPLETES AIRPORT COMMISSION FOR OUTDOOR SCULPTURE - PRESS RELEASE, May 12, 1998 | |
| Councilman Peter Hammerle and the East Hampton Art Committee are pleased to announce that the outdoor sculpture commission for the East Hampton airport has been completed by Linda Stein... |
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| MARCIA NEWFIELD - Linda Stein: Machete Blades and Beyond - Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Winter 1995/1996 | |
| "Yes, I do machete blade sculpture," says artist Linda Stein. "and, my, the comments it triggers in some people: 'What's a nice, pretty girl messing around with intimidating knives?" |
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| STEPHEN HENKIN - Machete as Medium, the Art of Linda Stein - The World & I - A Chronicle of Our Changing Era, October 1994 | |
| Thanks to Stein’s innovative craft, once razor-sharp machete blades, along with outmoded male-female roles, have taken on a whole new meaning... |
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| ARLENE RAVEN - Is Bad Good or Bad? - The Village Voice, April 19, 1994 | |
| In junior high in the '50s, bad is tight skirts, seamed stocking, cigarettes, and hanging out on street corners instead of going to school. Ten years later, bad is no skirts or stockings, going to school instead of hanging at home with kids... |
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| SKIP SHEFFIELD - Unusual Furniture - The News (Boca Raton - Delray Beach - Boynton Beach - Deerfield Beach), Sunday, April 5, 1992 | |
| When is a chair not a chair? Novo Arts, 193 E. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, has opened a gallery of weird furniture you may or may not want to sit, eat or sleep upon... |
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| THE CITY - Transforming Machetes Into Works of Art - The New York Times, Sunday, April 3, 1994 | |
| When Linda Stein was growing up, she says, she was told, "good girls shouldn't play with knives." So what did she do? She created works of art from machetes... |
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| GREG GATTUSO - Entertainment Best Bets - New York Newsday, Sunday, March 20, 1994 | |
| Linda Stein never has to ask people what they think of her work. "Avant garde," "adventurous," "eerie," "hopeful," "paranoid" and "militant" are words people use to descrie Stein's steel blade sculptures... |
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| MARCIA NEWFIELD - Sculptor Recreates What Scares Her - New Directions for Women, May-June 1993 | |
| A machete blade as a sign of love, harmony and the finer impulses of life? Not your first assumption? Understandable. But it just means you haven't seen the sculptures of Linda Stein... |
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| STAFF - Stein Exhibit Opens at Boca Museum of Art - THE NEWS (Boca Raton - Delray Beach - Boynton Beach - Deerfield Beach), Monday, June 3, 1991 | |
| On Thursday June 6, Linda Stein, whose environmental sculptures and multi-media shows have drawn rave reviews, opens an exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. |
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| EILEEN WATKINS - Furniture Isn't Taken for Granted at Exhibition - Sunday Star Ledger (Newark NJ), June 23, 1991 | |
| To treat something "like a piece of furniture" means taking it for granted. Five artists showing their works at Aljira in Newark this month, however, make household objects that are hard to ignore... |
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| KATHLEEN M. HORAN - Sculptor Turns Weapons Into Original Works of Art - Weekend News Transcript (Serving Western Monmouth County, NJ), June 21, 1991 | |
| Artist's Fusion of Steel, Wood has Powerful Impact Two opposing feelings, one of a dangerous weapon and the other of a fragile work of art, are represented in the exhibit "Blades, Transcending Aggression," currently on display at the Count Basie.. |
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