Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Tonight, Daniel Larkin and I will be liveblogging night two of the Maximum Perception Performance Festival at the English Kills Art Gallery in Brooklyn. Last night's liveblog can be found here [http://hyperallergic.com/16679/liveblogging-maximum-perception-fri-night/] and tonight we're going to be t
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We're setting up at the English Kills Art Gallery and getting ready for the Friday night liveblogging session. Tonight, Hyperallergic's Kyle Chayka and I will be manning the blog, Twitter & everything else and taking turns chiming in about performances and what's going on around us. The Twitter hash
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"I was really upset this morning when I found out that Urban Outfitters has STOLEN the work of street artist Cali Killa." — According2g.com I'm a bit torn on this issue since I don't know if an artist who uses public space to display their art (often illegally) has the right to tell someone else the
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Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts has initiated a course for contemporary visual artists to protect themselves and their art projects. It is an introduction to legal issues that is designed to make "legalese comprehensible and manageable."
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Inspired by our image-saturated culture, French artist Leo Caillard has reimagined the Louvre as a digital library, while James Elkins has compiled some real stats about how long people actually look at art in museums.
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For the first time in more than 25 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will display five of its original Autochromes by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz for one week only — January 25-30, 2011 — as part of the exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand.
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This Friday, January 14, Williamsburg art galleries will be open late for art lovers and fans to crawl through the bodacious borough of Brooklyn's hipster-est neighborhood on earth. Dozens of art galleries and spaces will be open from 6-8pm to ensure that you can wander around and discover new talen
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Last week, the "first real inauguration of the [Konbit Shelter] community center with workshops and events brought by Ayiti Resurrect and Ayiti Cherie Healing" took place in Bigones, Haiti. Spearheaded by Brooklyn-based artist Swoon, the Konbit Shelter Project was created with the idea that a group
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Photographer Thomas Hawk visited the World Erotic Art Museum in South Beach took photos, he claims he didn't see the no photography sign. Now the South Florida institution filed "fradulent" DMCA notice with Flickr and Yahoo, which owns Flickr, has threatened Hawk's entire account with permanent dele
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Graphic designer James Reynolds recreated the final meals of nine American prisoners executed between 1963 and 2006, then photographed each on an inmate-orange cafeteria tray.
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