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A Sculpture Divides Oakland & Berkeley, Knitters Protest
Rogue knitters … yes, knitters … encamp along the Berkeley-Oakland border to protest a public sculpture, inspired by a Gertrude Stein quote, they believe insults Oakland.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Warhol’s Cock (Drawing) on the Moon?
Did a tiny ceramic chip covered with original drawing by artists Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, and Forrest Myers travel to the moon with the Apollo 12 lunar module in November 1969. PBS’ History Detectives investigates …
Opinion
Bullshit, I mean, Art School Cliché Detector
Just in time for tonight’s premiere of the trashy reality TV series (wait, that may be redundant) Work of Art, is a new web app to help you separate the wheat from the chaff, the Art School Cliché detector!
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Support the Queens Museum of Art
If the Queens Museum of Art isn’t the most well-known museum, it certainly is one of the most resourceful as it seems to work wonders with the limited resources they have. Tomorrow (Wednesday, June 9) is QMA’s annual gala and we hope you will consider supporting one of the borough of Queens’s leadin
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Searching for Hopper’s “Nighthawks” Diner
There are many mysteries in 20th C. American art but none are more enduring than the question of the mysterious diner in Edward Hopper’s iconic painting “Nighthawks” (1942). Now, Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York [http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com] is promising to get to the bottom of it all.
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Prescott School Says Mural Doesn’t Have to Be “Lightened”
After a burst of national outrage over the Prescott School District’s request to “lighten” a mural [http://hyperallergic.com/6887/arizona-school-mural-controversy/] with a large Latino figure, the School District announced at a pro-mural protest last Saturday that they are ok with the current image
Opinion
Arizona School Demands Black/Latino Faces On Mural Be Whitened
The Arizona Republic reports, “A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school. The project's leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children's ethnicity.”
Art
Considering Abramović as a Symbol of Freedom
Senior editor of Antiwar.com and editor of BushwickBK Jeremy Sapienza unpacks some of the history [http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/06/03/marina-abramovics-art-and-the-horrors-of-war/] of artist Marina Abramović to understand the power of her recent performance.
Opinion
Street Art or Garbage?
Thanks to artist Mark Jenkins, life just got a little more complicated than it used to be. In addition to the age-old dilemma of “Is it art?” we are now forced to confront the question “Is it street art?”
Art
MoMA’s Abramović Ends With a Bang
The last day of the Marina Abramović’s “The Artist Is Present” at MoMA was marked by a frenzy of activity both IRL and online. The veteran performance artist has proven that her art form has come of age and it can hypnotize a whole city — and art world — into believing or “unbelieving” that she’s th
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AP Spreads Own Story, Urging Shepard Fairey to Settle Copyright Case
The Associated Press has disseminated a story that props up its own interests in the Shepard Fairey Obama “Hope” copyright case. Some people are wondering if the news service should’ve filed a story with no real updates except that things are still going well for the AP.
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Allen Ginsberg’s Beat Photographs on Display
I had no idea renowned beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was an avid amateur photographer. A current exhibition [http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2010/ginsberg/index.shtm#] of his black and white snapshots are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and they are annotated by Gi