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Opinion

A Dizzying City of the Future Now

Chris Burden's frenetic installation at LACMA "refers specifically to Los Angeles … of the future" but it's more reminiscent of fast-growing megacities, like Chongqing and Dubai.

Art

New iPad App Makes Sketching Social

MANILA, Philippines — For years now, artists and designers have had blogs and social media to give the general public access to their studios and lives. But what if you could peek into artists' very thought processes? What if you could see their sketches evolve day by day, before they're actualized

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Trick or Treat in the Manila Slums

MANILA, Philippines — The film opens casually enough. Children wearing Halloween masks float, or roll, backwards. As we pay attention to the surroundings, we realize we are following the children through the poorest conditions, which shoot past us. Over time, we realize we are on railway tracks, and

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3 iPad Apps Recreate the Museum Experience...Almost

MANILA, Philippines — Over the past few months, I’ve watched with envy as stunning museum shows have gone up in my old haunts in Los Angeles and New York. Thankfully, in recent months three museums have released exhibition-related apps for the iPad and iPhone. To see how they stack up, I reviewed th

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A Zen Buddhist and a Catholic Walk Into a Composition

MANILA, Philippines — The words “Catholic” and “Zen” rarely appear in the same sentence together, but there's a potent history of mixing of these traditions. Benedictine monk Thomas Merton famously studied Zen and Taoist classics as part of his meditative practice, and Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh h

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An Artist Grapples With the Worst Documented Attack on Journalists

MANILA, Philippines — On November 23, 2009, just a little over two years ago, Esmael Magundadatu, the vice mayor of the southern Philippine city of Buluan, invited 37 journalists to accompany him as he filed for his certificate of candidacy. The group, along with a cadre of lawyers and family, never

Opinion

Cardboard Los Angeles

MANILA, Philippines — One of the lovely things about living abroad is seeing the American art world through the internet. When in the US, I'm tugged in so many directions from brick-and-mortar spaces, but there are a ton of American gems online, and not all of them are in New York and Los Angeles. L

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The Father of Filipino Conceptual Art

MANILA, Philippines — Where does one start with Philippine contemporary art? So little is known outside the country, even amongst foreign-born Filipinos.

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World's Longest Graffiti Street in China?

MANILA, Philippines — As is so often said about Chongqing, you've never heard of it, but with 30 million people and rising, it's one of the largest municipalities in the world (for perspective, all of New York state has some 20 million people). Located in the heart of southwest China, a former city

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Art, Tech and the Tropics: Writing on Philippine Contemporary Art

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — What's up, Hyperallergic? I'm excited to begin blogging again more regularly this month. I've just landed in Manila, the bustling capital of the Philippines, to begin a month-long writing residency at Green Papaya Art Projects.

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Getting Naked for Ai Weiwei [NSFW]

BEIJING — When Ai Weiwei's assistant, Beijing artist Zhao Zhao, was brought in for questioning recently, the supposed charges were simple: distribution of pornography. The image in question was "One Tiger, Eight Breasts," a shot of Ai with four young women, all of them naked. I first saw the photo i

Opinion

"We Need to Ai Weiwei": The Ai Weiwei Question on Chinese Social Media

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — What has the response to Ai Weiwei's tax case been like in China? We've seen the thrilling surge of netizens lending over a million dollars to the artist, and he recently made a deposit while he contests the bill. The artist has returned to Twitter, posting actively once more.