Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Artist William Powhida has taken to Twitter for his latest project, “Everyone We’ve Never Met (from memory and imagination),” and he explains, "In another effort to broaden the project and to make the ideas of 'Everyone' mean more than Sheboygan and vacationers from Chicago in a way that I can still
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Boston's Museum of Fine Art is asking visitors to donate so they can add the 42-foot-high, 10,000 pound, 2,400 piece "Lime Green Icicle Tower" sculpture that is a highlight of the current Dale Chihuly show.
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Art book lovers of the world will have something to look forward to in Manhattan this summer. Yesterday, Chelsea's David Zwirner Gallery open its second annual summer pop-up bookstore for a two week run — it closes Friday, August 5.
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This story brings a tear to my eye: "Supporters of the campaign to recall Michigan Gov Rick Snyder are reporting they collected more than 5,000 signatures during the Ann Arbor Art Fair."
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Whatever artist Ai Weiwei's deal is with the Chinese authorities about his participation on social media, it doesn't appear to have included the newest kid on the social networking block, Google Plus.
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This week, Geronimo's eye, classic New York art dealer profiles, did arts reporting save the Rose Art Museum, in defense of bare walls, Uffizi's new iPad app, artist suppression, Frederick Law Olmstead on the US South, Marshall McLuhan speaking to high school students (circa 1960s), a video tour of
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A golden nugget from James Kalm's Facebook profile page and the birth of a fantastic new term, "vaginal surround sound."
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Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the first artist-in-residency program exclusively for emerging LGBT contemporary artists in the United States, has announced its very first summer residency program, which is slated to take place August 12 – 26, 2011 in the Cherry Grove community of Fire Island,
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We've been catching up on our reading at Hyperallergic HQ and came across this quote by Wafaa Bilal in the Dubai-based Brownbook magazine (Issue 25) about the state of performance art in West Asia …
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If you had any question that the Metropolitan Museum was the reigning champion of museum attendance in the US, then their latest figures (5.68 million in FY 2011) should dispel any doubts.
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Renowned portraitist and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud died yesterday.
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Let's face it, 2008 was the year of Obamart and Obama street art. The art world couldn't get enough of the nation's first black presidential contender with a good chance of winning, Barack Obama, but 2012 is another story. Has the passion for Obama died down? Will the street art battle be more fierc