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Rome's Cinecittà Studios have provided the sets for some of the most famous movies in Western cinema: William Wyler's Ben-Hur, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part III, Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, Roberto Benini's Life Is Beautiful, and Martin Sco
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We've written before about the plague of unpaid internships in the art world, so we were super excited to see that Arts Council England is launching a £15 million ($24 million) program to help pay arts and culture interns across the UK. Called the Creative Employment Programme, the project will supp
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In keeping with Christo's announcement last month that his planned Colorado project, "Over the River," would be indefinitely postponed, federal judge John Kane has ruled that the artist cannot move ahead with the project until a lawsuit attempting to stop it is resolved.
Opinion
You might assume that when a person or an image has made it onto a US postal stamp, it's gained mainstream approbation. The stamp might even spread that acceptance and influence, making more people aware of the subject. I'm inclined to agree. But this morning Hyperallergic marketing associate Kara R
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Sotheby's and its art handlers may have resolved their 10-month contract dispute earlier this year, but the labor fight is alive and well in the art world, and its current locus is San Francisco.
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It looks like pressure from directors, actors, and high-profile members of the film community around the world has worked: Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia, who went missing a few weeks ago, has been freed.
Opinion
A post by my fellow editor Kyle Chayka got me thinking about the "outsider artist" designation and the different ways people define it.
Art
This week, African photography, Japanese avant-garde, contemporary political art, and new-media art that contemplates the possibilities of Armageddon.
Art
I'm skeptical of crowd-curating and crowd-sourced art-prize voting. I've written about it here on Hyperallergic. Still, as the date approached, I found myself really excited about this past weekend's GO open studios event, organized by the Brooklyn Museum — not because I wanted to vote for who would
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Today we take it for granted that we have photographs of pretty much everyone: famous or not, smartphone-owning or not, Instagram-using or not. It's hard to imagine anyone becoming famous without an attendant cache of images to identify them.
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In the latest story of the Syrian government cracking down on artists, independent filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia has gone missing, presumably detained by Syrian authorities.
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The saga of Shepard Fairey vs. the Associated Press finally came to a close today, as the LA-based street artist was sentenced to two years of probation and a $25,000 fine for committing criminal contempt of court. Fairey pled guilty to the charge earlier this year.