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Sundance Gives Ai Weiwei Middle Finger of Support
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" was award the US Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and the audience flipped the filmmaker off.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Christian Marclay's unoriginal(?) "The Clock," art in post-revolution Egypt, power of Renaissance portraiture, GIF trends, Gagosian troubles, Adolph Gottlieb's words in 1966 and more.
Art
Art Hack Day Is Tomorrow at 319 Scholes
Tomorrow, the doors of 319 Scholes open for the public unveiling of the 48-hour projects that were given birth to during Art Hack Day at the East Williamsburg art/tech space.
Opinion
Is Twitter Going to Censor? Ai Weiwei Threatens to Quit Tweeting
Yesterday, Twitter announced that it will start censoring tweets in certain countries as a concession to governments as the service expands globally. Some, including Ai Weiwei, are not happy.
Opinion
MoMA Brings Out a Classic of Remix Culture
Sure there was collage and assemblage before him, but what Pop artist James Rosenquist did in the 1960s is probably closer to our contemporary sensibilities about remix culture with its flattening of disparate images using a similar aesthetic to unify jarring visuals.
Opinion
Traumas of a Spotted Lady
Yayoi Kusama seems to reinforce popular notions of the artist who battles with some form of madness.
Opinion
Is Damien Hirst Lazy?
A spotted judgment pops up on the streets of Paris. And someone goes in stoned (we think) to the Hirst show in LA.
Opinion
David Hockney Disses Hirst, Now Former Professor Trashes Him
The Brit-gone-LA artist was grabbing headlines earlier this month for his supposed swipe against Damien Hirst but now it's his turn to take criticism from someone who knows his work, a former professor.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an unfinished masterpiece, artists on Facebook, Guggenheim's free online catalogues, Okwui Enwezor lectures on art and civic imagination, Russian space, nasty ancient graffiti and much more …
Opinion
Reports from Last Night's Bushwick Panel
Last night's "Confronting Bushwick" was attended by roughly 120 people and there are already two excellent reports published online about the event … not to mention the tweets.
News
Occupy Museums Writes Letter to MoMA, Demands Stand on Sotheby's Lockout
On the heels of their rally at the Museum of Modern Art last Friday, the following focused and powerful letter arrived in our inbox 15 minutes ago from Occupy Museums.
Opinion
Absolutely No Comment: Berlin Press Release Edition
This morning, I received the following image of a press release from a Berlin gallery show and I was speechless.