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Manhattan’s latest (and likely largest) new pop-up art space has just taken up residence in a TriBeCa loft — an unlikely location for such a fresh-faced project. TEMP's inaugural exhibition is "Working on It," a collection of young artists who have energy but lack direction.
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement, the protest that popularized the now-ubiquitous term "99 percent, began last year on September 17. The events in Zuccotti Park kicked off an international storm of activism, and though the movement has been less visible as of late, the one-year anniversary is quickly
Interview
What do you do when the technology you depend on every day messes up? Instead of getting frustrated or throwing a machine out, Phillip Stearns makes art out of errors. We talked to Stearns in his Brooklyn studio about glitch art and bringing technological bugs into the home.
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This weekend, GO Brooklyn will see over a thousand Brooklyn artists opening their studios to the public. Here's Hyperallergic's guide to a few of the event's highlights, organized by neighborhood.
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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts must be pretty frustrated. First, they shuttered their authentication board after getting sued by too many collectors, and now they're planning to sell off all of their holdings of Warhol's work to focus entirely on making art-related grants. Collectors
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Over the past week, Hurricane Isaac dumped epic amounts of rain on the city of New Orleans, forcing locals to evacuate their homes. The storm also shut down many of the city’s museums. As the area recovers, cultural institutions have gradually reopened to the public, but one major museum, the New Or
Opinion
As technology becomes ever slicker and ever thinner, a trajectory pioneered by the smooth curves and sleek lines of iconic Apple products, designers have been going out of their way to give these products a more natural, human touch. The dominant trend these days seems to be for iPhone and iPad acce
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Samsara, a Sanskrit word that means “world” or “cyclic existence,” is also a recently released documentary by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson. It’s a collection of mind-blowing, Planet Earth-style shots, but instead of taking on the natural world, the film’s directors chose to represent a topic that’s
Opinion
Does Wendy Vainity actually know what she’s doing? The 48-year-old native of Adelaide, Australia is one of the weirdest YouTube users I’ve ever come across, with a collection of homemade 3D animations that range from the surreal to the creepy to the outright bizarre and disturbing.
Opinion
Art historian and associate professor at New York’s CUNY Graduate Center Claire Bishop has taken to the pages of Artforum’s September edition to issue a kind of rebuke for contemporary art. She argues, in an extended essay that only briefly detours into egregious artspeak, that though the new realit
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For the past 9 months, I've had an amazing time with you all at Hyperallergic. As staff writer, I've posted day in and day out, attempting to provide a guide to what's actually interesting in the art world. It's been an incredible experience, to say the least. I'll be leaving Hyperallergic today.
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For the past 9 months, I've had an amazing time with you all at Hyperallergic. As staff writer, I've posted day in and day out, attempting to provide a guide to what's actually interesting in the art world. It's been an incredible experience, to say the least. I'll be leaving Hyperallergic today.