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Wackiest News of the Day: UFO at New Museum?
What the hell is that diamond-shaped object floating in the sky? A photographer shot this unidentified object from the New Museum's Sky Room Terrace, according to his testimony on a UFO site.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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The Signs of #OccupyWallStreet
On Friday and Saturday night I traveling to the Occupy Wall Street action in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park to document the signs created by the protesters and their supporters. I was impressed that this small island of protest had quickly created a library and an art station for protesters to shar
Opinion
Required Reading
This week's edition focuses on the de Kooning retrospective at MoMA, some final essays on the 9/11 Museum, an endangered mural in Manhattan, the timeline design of Facebook and Instagram as art.
Interview
When Republicans Were Progressive: US Political Cartoons, Circa 1912
Marc H. Milleris the man behind an exhibition that is currently going on at the Charles P. Stevenson Library at Bard College in upstate New York, The Presidential Election of 1912 in Cartoons. Drawn from his personal collection these images provide a window into the world of US Presidential politics
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Islands of Luxury Frozen in Marble and Rattan
Walking through Yutaka Sone’s Islands exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, I was reminded of a Victorian greenhouse. If the artist, judging by his interviews, seems to feel his work is postmodern, it appears suprisingly pre-modern to me as the objects feel precious and exotic, like the remnants of s
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Seaport's 19th C Print Shop Expected to Reopen
"The new managers of the struggling Seaport Museum New York have committed to reopen the 19th-century print shop Bowne & Co. Stationers, advocates said this week … at a closed-door meeting on Tuesday, the leaders of the Museum of the City of New York, which is taking over the Seaport Museum, promise
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One Language Traveller at the National Gallery of Denmark
If the stately looking Statens Museum for Kunst, or National Gallery of Denmark, has a fantastic (yet, small) early 20th C. French collection featuring a stunning Matisse room, it currently lacks few signs that contemporary art has an important role in its collection or mission. History stops abrupt
Opinion
Street Artist Triumphs Over Urban Outfitters in Copyright Case
We posted about Cali Killa's copyright issue with Urban Outfitters last January, and how the corporation has blatantly stolen from the street artist to sell tshirts. Now, Melrose and Fairfax is reporting that Cali Killa had copyrighted his image and was able win his case.
Opinion
Bay Area Hypocrisy: No Penance for Otterness, No Palestinian Art for Kids
The Bay Area is full of artistic hypocrisy this month. On one side of the San Francisco Bay, two commissions by artist Tom Otterness are on hold because of a tasteless art video he did in the 1970s, and on the other side of the same bay, a Palestinian children's art show is cancelled because it piss
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What's On the Menu at #FEEDFEED, a Meme Potluck
Last Friday night, artist Man Bartlett opened up his Bushwick apartment on Myrtle avenue for what he conceived as a networked pot-luck extravaganza called "#FEEDFEED." A self-admittedly low-brow version of Relational Aesthetics, the event invited participants to contribute a meme or internet-inspire
Interview
The Artist Is Present Game Creator Talks Marina Mania, Video Games & the Rules
Pippin Barr works and teaches at the Center for Computer Game Research at IT University in Copenhagen, and readers of Hyperallergic will know him as the guy who created "The Artist Is Present" video game, which has already become an online sensation. I caught up with Barr online to ask him about "Th
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The Best Matisse Room I've Ever Seen
Among the surprises at the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, is an exquisite room of early Matisses that will blow your mind.