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In a crowded marketplace, and especially during uncertain economic times, how can artists stand out from the pack? It helps to be a child prodigy or a former model or a convicted serial murderer, of course, but it's not like you can just wake up in the morning and become any of these things. Welsh a
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Former SpongeBob SquarePants lead artist Todd White's slick website includes a section where you can keep abreast of "what’s going on in Todd’s fast-moving world"; currently, it includes clips about his various media appearances, side projects and celebrity [sic] endorsements. What you won't find, h
Opinion
This week, hundreds of artists from all over the world will begin assembling one of the largest and most dazzling group art shows in the United States, or anywhere. Approximately 50,000 people will view the show during its week-long run, making it proportionately even more popular attendance-wise th
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Some call it "The United Nations of Graffiti." Its semi-official title, spelled out in giant letters on its main wall, is "The Institute of Higher Burnin," though you'll also find it described as "the world’s premiere 'graffiti Mecca'" on its website. Now there are questions about how long it will l
Art
By the ordinary way of reckoning such things, there are considerably fewer artists participating in this year's Prospect.2 biennial in New Orleans than in the event's first iteration three years ago. But if artist and provocateur William Pope.L's piece for the exhibition turns out according to sched
Opinion
Most of the works in The Queen: Art and Image, now on view at the National Gallery complex in Edinburgh and traveling to two other venues before opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London next spring, are perfect representations of the times during which they were created.
Opinion
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, and the Financial Times observes the occasion with a fascinating feature article that tells the tale of the theft of what was (then as now) the world's most famous work of art
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A new Marilyn Monroe sculpture went up in Chicago but homegrown reaction to the sculpture has been "almost uniformly negative" … though you wouldn't know if you were checking Flickr.
Opinion
Thought that James Franco's recent apparent breakup with art BFF Kalup Linzy [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/fashion/performance-artist-kalup-linzy-and-the-art-of-being-a-character.html?_r=1] meant that you wouldn't be seeing quite as much of his grinning disembodied mug [http://hyperallergic.com
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When Hyperallergic editor Hrag V. asked me to guest edit this site in his absence a few weeks ago and bring a little bit of the Crescent City to the Brooklyn-based blogazine scene, I thought it might be an uneasy fit: after all, as A.J. Liebling memorably said in "The Earl of Louisiana" (though perh
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Carmageddon 2011 might chiefly be remembered as the big transportation nightmare that wasn't [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carmageddon-20110719,0,5035874.story]: an accelerated work schedule, coupled with a couple million people in the Los Angeles area realizing they didn't need to drive
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As geopsychically wondrous [http://hyperallergic.com/29365/a-geopsychic-tour-of-new-orleans/] as New Orleans is, it's not exactly the most cutting edge of places; in fact, even in these days of instantaneous communication it sometimes takes ideas and trends a little longer to make their way down her