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Is the Smithsonian Promoting a Pro-pollution Corporate Agenda?
A few paragraphs in the New Yorker story about the Tea Party-funding Koch brothers should scare the hell out of you and make you wonder if the Smithsonian has gone to far.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Seton Hill University to Give Students iPads with Art
Last March, Seton Hill University announced it was giving its full-time undergrads and faculty iPads. Now they are going a step further for art history students and they want to outfit the tablets with Art Authority, an app that allows them to access 40,000+ historic paintings and sculptures.
Opinion
Does the Art Market Need to Be Regulated?
It does surprised me that the art market has been unregulated for so long. Considering there is government regulation in so many aspects of our lives, it’s interesting to see that the art world has been given the luxury of self-regulation (which means NO regulation). Well, New York Times blogger Wil
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Touring Afghanistan's National Gallery
Last June, artist Steve Mumford visited the National Gallery in Kabul to explore the artistic heritage of the war-torn nation. He has written a short account of his visit — along with a few dozen photographs of what he saw — for Artnet.
Opinion
Why is Fairey’s New Movie Ad Campaign So Bad?
Up-and-coming street art critic RJ of Vandalog asks why the new poster campaign by Shepard Fairey’s Obey studio is so damn ugly, ok, he didn’t exactly say it that way (I’m paraphrasing) but he might as well have.
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Hirst's PinchuckArtCentre Opening Sounds Bizarre
From Artforum: “In press notes, the exhibition is loosely termed a retrospective, but the majority of the works on display are new paintings, many making their world debut — and potentially final stop, if rumors are to be believed — in Kiev.”
Opinion
The Take on "Work of Art" We've All Been Waiting For
Since the Work of Art TV show began in the early summer many of us in the art world have been eager for William Powhida’s perspective on what some of us like to call the biggest waste of time this summer (though others use the term Work of Fart). And now he delivers and OMG is it awesome.
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A Few Good Interns … Fall 2010
This summer we’ve been lucky to have three amazing interns who spent the summer letting me take them out for lunch while we worked together to throw events, plan and execute a blogging schedule, and talk about ideas, writing, art, and social issues. They each wow’d me with their enthusiasm and creat
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Louise Bourgeois Sculpture in NOLA Vandalized, Leaves Town [UPDATED]
Louise Bourgeois’s “Eye Benches IV” (2001) was loaned to the city of New Orleans in 2007 as a gesture of post-Katrina goodwill and the elderly artist had covered the $45,000 in shipping and installation costs, but sadly the sculptures were vandalized last month and now, according to the Times-Picayu
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Fisk University’s Georgia O'Keeffe Collection Goes to Court
The future of Fisk University’s priceless art collection donated years ago by artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and known as The Stieglitz Collection, may be decided at a trial set to begin tomorrow after five years of legal wrangling.
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William Powhida’s “Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery” Video Now Online
For those of you who could not attend William Powhida’s May 14th performance/lecture, “Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery [http://hyperallergic.com/5961/william-powhida-talk/],” at Hyperallergic HQ, the video of the event is now online on Hyperallergic's Blip.tv channel, Hyperallergic
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Minimalism’s Lateral Move at The Hogar Collection
I’m not sure Lateralism, a small show curated by artist Matt Wycoff bares out by the premise put forth in the press release, which promised to assess “a slice of the ever-shifting boundaries and implications of post minimal painting and sculptural installation,” but the exhibition at The Hogar Colle