Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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We received this note yesterday from a Hyperallergic reader: "Bob Cassilly died … His bulldozer tumbled down a rocky hill, flipping over a bunch of times while he was in it. He was a pretty tough guy. He turned a giant shoe factory in St. Louis into The City Museum. A wonderland of potential lawsuit
Art
I ran to Times Square this morning to catch a glimpse of artist Zefrey Throwell's latest incarnation of his performance series, Midtown Games, but a missed subway connection which delayed my arrival a few minutes making me late to witness the artistic/athletic spectacle. Luckily, I tracked down Thro
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Teamsters representatives have been circulating a letter to Chelsea galleries indicating that they will be protesting jobs by Crozier Fine Arts, who they say have crossed their picket line by partly replacing their workers at Sotheby's. The Teamster are finding back and threatening to protest all fu
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A little birdy told us that there's a flashmob brewing tonight at the New Museum called "The Perfect Match." We're not sure of the details yet but we hear it will have quite an ending! Stay tuned as we find out more. UPDATE: We hear through the grapevine that the New Museum is doing everything possi
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Carter Cleveland of art startup Artsy claimed at an event last night that, "For every household that buys fine art in US, there are 37 households with the same average income that don't." So I asked him to elaborate.
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Next year, Brooklyn's Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods will have a new community center with the worst acronym known to humanity, North Brooklyn’s Town Hall and Community and Cultural Center (NTHCCC). The center will rise in the place of Engine 212, known as the "People's Firehouse," which
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Today, in a ceremony at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, American artist Romare Bearden was honored with set of four "Forever" stamps issued by the US Postal Service.
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We already knew New York is a 24-hr city, but with the acquisition of Christian Marclay's "The Clock" by MoMA, art lovers will have something to watch during every friggin' minute of it.
Opinion
Recently, I received a press release from the Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) heralding their new show, Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art. My first reaction was astonishment. I didn't understand how Australian Aboriginal
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"…Chinese press…reported that that a painting, ‘Put Down Your Whip’ by Xu Beihong…which sold last year at auction in Beijing for 14 million dollars, is claimed to have been painted by an art student in the 1980s.Ten former students signed an open letter…stating that the painting had been ‘a class ex
Opinion
The archival footage features a number of artists in the New York school (Alcopley, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joe Stefanelli, John Stephan, Robert Richenburg and Will Barnet) discussing life in New York's 1950s art world.
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Following a three year conservation project, the final section of the rare, Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose (c. 1539-1292 BCE) will go on long-term view at the Brooklyn Museum on September 28.