Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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While the players in the global art market descend on Miami to scoop up artistic baubles and all the prestige associated with it, some people have arrived at this international art orgy for less consumer driven motives. Enter Celso and his Art Burn event.
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Why haven't we been posting much recently? Well, the short answer is MIAMI! Yes, we're off to the fairs and we're bringing you along with us. Expect many musings from the front lines of the art world's greatest clusterfuck.
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... an art exhibit for the blind ... do the recent art auctions point to a possible surprise at the Miami art fairs ... North Carolina Museum of Art is gearing up for its new building ... Toronto is hosting a King Tut blockbuster ... the Taubman Museum of Art realizes that a splashy new building doe
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... a lull in Iraqi violence helps spur cultural activity ... homeless artists in Austin, Texas, have an art show & benefit ... art mogul Eli Broad is scouting for a museum location ... artist Sam Bassett is arrested for trying to make New York's Sotheby's building into art.
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While Main Street continues to hemorrhage jobs and Wall Street revives its ridiculous bonus system, the elite among us -- most notably the trustees of the New Museum -- will probably be very interested to know where they should stash their valuables during these sad times in case, well, in case ...
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... Kiev awaits its own art destination-worthy art center ... Banksy gets marked up before people have a chance to vote about keeping it or not ... the Getty Trust & the Egyptian gov't is working together to preserve King Tut ... a San Francisco muralist gets stabbed on the job ... the Obama's send
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Two weeks ago, I found myself in Los Angeles with an afternoon to kill. I ventured to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and stumbled across a small exhibition by 18th C. Spanish still life painter Luis Meléndez. The exhibition, titled "Master of the Spanish Still Life," was a quaint two-room show
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...Jean Nouvel's new MoMA tower gets chopped and approved...Bushwick politico meets with local arts community...San Francisco galleries are branching out...and starting this week everyone will be looking to the art auctions of New York as a barometer of the art world's economic health.
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On Sunday, many New Yorkers were probably trying to figure out who whitewashed and pimped out some of the city's boring billboards. If you liked what you saw then let me introduce you to the man behind the renegade campaign, known as New York Street Advertising Takeover (NYSAT), his name is Jordan S
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...Grand Rapids, Michigan, stunned by success of ArtPrize Festival...Mark Rothko's first solo show in Moscow to take place this spring...van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam launched "Vincent van Gogh: The Letters" website with complete images and text of all the artist's correspondence...Ukrainian art webs
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My husband was walking down Bedford Avenue on Wednesday, and he spotted someone pasting up posters on a wall which is almost always dominated by a giant Shepard Fairey poster, so frequently in fact that it might as well be his permanent ad space. It was lunchtime and no one stopped or cared. Knowing