Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Jason Eppink describes himself online as an "Urban Alchemist, Rapid Prototyper, Mischief Maker," so it should come as no surprise that he stirred things up during his February 24 lecture at the Museum of Arts and Design with a water gun fight.
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Raise your hand if you're not surprised that LA's Museum of Contemporary Art is getting tagged by a whole bunch of graffiti writers because of the upcoming Art in the Streets show? Well, Katsu is doing his part on the heels of an attention-grabbing faux MoMA/Nike ad series he pulled off in New York
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A few years ago, I was invited by photographer and Flickr superuser Thomas Hawk to join his DMU (Deleteme Uncensored) Flickr group, which allows users to post photos for voting by fellow users. But someone played a trick and submitted a photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson as their own and the resulting c
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On April 17, MOCA LA's Art in the Streets exhibition opens. The show, which was organized in roughly a year or since Deitch became director of the institution, promises to be a major exploration of street art, graffiti and skateboard culture at one of the country's most important contemporary art in
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Today, we received a message in a plastic bottle from Pennsylvania-based artist Deidra Krieger. Labeled with a neon-colored sticker with the word "PLAY", the bottle was covered with handwritten messages on the surface, including "EMPTY POSTconsumer FANTASTIC PLASTIC" near the mouth of the bottle and
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This morning, LA Anonymous unveiled their latest work, a circus-inspired poster installed on the north-facing wall of Zip Fusion Sushi in downtown LA, near Little Tokyo. Titled “Art in the Streets” (2011), the poster by LA Anonymous appears a week before MOCA LA director Jeffrey Deitch's Art in the
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Tim McCool let us know that when he saw this building in his hometown of Pittsburgh he thought it would be a perfect fit for a standard envelope … and mail art.
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Many of you will know that I've been critical of the conventional art review and how it doesn't appear well suited to a lot of art that is produced today. So, in the interest of trying new art review forms, I've given a shot at using the graphic novel format for my review of Celso's ¡No Habla Españo
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Mary Rork-Watson is the creator of the newest work to be featured on the Mail Art Bulletin. The Iowa-based artist explains on her website that her work is about: "Revisioning the lost, discarded and ordinary into original works of art."
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We don't have definitive proof that Norte Maar's In the Use of Others for the Change will be the first-ever modern ballet in Bushwick, Brooklyn but we think it just might be. As an added bonus … tonight (Friday, April 1, 9pm - closing), Bushwick watering hole, Bodega Wine Bar, welcomes fans of Norte
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Streetsy's Jake Dobkin took up the infographic gauntlet we threw at your feet yesterday with a smart chart about the degrees of selling out for street artists … well, we have some annotations.