Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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I admit it, sometimes I'm slow to post something. Case in point, my article on the 2011 Bushwick Open Studios was published in the summer edition of the Brooklyn Rail but I never got around the publishing in here. So, here I go. Posting this piece I wrote before summer started right before the seaso
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Pressure from some Bay Area Jewish groups and others have pushed the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland, California, to cancel A Child's View from Gaza, which is an exhibition featuring 50 art works by Palestinian children aged 9 to 11.
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Today is the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 and this edition of Required Reading is about 9/11 and the power of images.
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TMZ reports actor Jim Carrey's 1st attempt at "street art" was cleaned up by city workers but now he's "stuck it to The Man with a brand new piece."
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Today, Wooster Collective has published the above work by street artist Zevs that is only visible using UV light and was created in the actual room that the convicted 9/11 terrorists stayed in before their infamous attack. But what does this say?
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Some good news for Manhattan's Seaport Museum, which has been in financial trouble for quite some time, as they received a $2 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
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A Scottish Castle commissioned four Brazilian street artists to paint their walls and now they are fighting to have them stay that way.
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Near Arne Jacobsen's SAS Hotel and a stone's throw from Tivoli Gardens is a peculiar building painted by Danish artist Poul Gernes. Labeled as part of his "Decorations" on his website, this multi-colored building is a flash of color in the city. I've been told architects hate it, but I'm more curiou
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I couldn't imagine leaving Copenhagen without experiencing the classic Arne Jacobsen SAS Hotel that opened in 1960. One of the things that makes this structure so unique is that Jacobsen was commissioned by SAS, the Scandinavian airline, to design the world's first designer hotel. While the notion o
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COPENHAGEN — Shepard Fairey's wall mural at Jagtvej 69 in the Nørrebro neighborhood of Copenhagen may scream "Peace" but graffiti artists appear to have declared war on the art work that sits on the site of Ungdomshuset, the former leftist youth center that was destroyed by the country's right-wing
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This week's edition of Required Reading comes a little later than usual, but aren't all good things worth the wait? We'll be back to our morning publishing schedule next Sunday. Enjoy the linkage.