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Artist Ahmed Basiony was to represent Egypt in the 2011 Venice Biennale in an exhibition at the country's national pavilion, curated by Shady El Noshokaty. Yet the artist will now be representing his country's art community posthumously — Basiony died in gunfire in Tahrir Square while documenting th
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With the release of a brand new iPad application, the Museum of Modern Art forays into the territory of digital publishing. The free application is a smooth way to buy the digital versions of MoMA's exhibition catalogues, but the app also presents several advantages over simply buying PDF versions o
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The Eames Lounge Chair is probably the single most iconic piece of high modernist furniture ever made. Designed by famed modernist designer couple Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company, the Lounge's sleek wooden curves and sumptuous leather have pretty much become a byword fo
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Though he is the most visible victim, artist Ai Weiwei's arrest is only one symptom of a greater crackdown on free expression in China that has been deemed the “Big Chill.” Other victims detained and arrested include writers, lawyers and Chinese cultural figures.
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Sometimes art criticism gets physical. According to reports from the Washington Post, a woman attempted to grab Gauguin's “Two Tahitian Women” (1899) painting off the wall of DC's National Gallery, screaming “this is evil” and pounding at the painting's plastic covering with her fists. Talk about se
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On Sunday morning Beijing time, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested and detained at the airport on his way to Hong Kong. We haven't heard from the artist since. Ai's studio remains occupied by police forces though the larger neighborhood of Caochangdi is unaffected at present. Studio assistants, i
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Approximately 14 hours ago just before a planned flight to Hong Kong, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been arrested and detained at the Beijing airport. 10 hours ago, police raided Ai's studio on the outskirts of Beijing. Ai's status is now unknown: his phone is off, and power has been cut to the studi
Opinion
For the flurry of appropriation court cases we've been in the middle of lately, artist and graphic designer Austin Kleon has an appropriate response. In a presentation titled “How to Steal Like an Artist,” Kleon explains how collaboration and inspiration break down artistic boundaries. Just tell tha
Art
Next month, the very first sunken conversation pit will open to the public as a museum. The Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to open a private residence designed by Eero Saarinen for industrialist J. Irwin Miller as a design and architecture showcase, featuring interiors (and the conversation pit) b
Books
After stopping in to Hyperallergic's local coffee shop one morning, I noticed something interesting in the newsstand next to the Village Voices and L Magazines. I took a closer look. MoMA's logo? On a newsprint publication? The Museum of Modern Art is refreshing an old form of advertising to get the
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Designer Andrea Gallo has created a series of six posters that boil iconic works of architecture down to their minimalist details. The stark, black and white posters cut out silhouettes of the buildings and zoom in, with an eye towards the key elements of famous buildings.
Opinion
PBS documentary show Frontline features Alison Klayman's work filming Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's tumultuous past two years. The journalist has followed Ai through art exhibitions and political scandals alike, interviewing the artist and his family as well as the Chinese artistic community in a power