Opinion
It seems as though all those hanging hearts, flower puppies and porn paintings are finally paying off for Jeff Koons, as the superstar artist has begun to plan the renovation [http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/10/29/artist_jeff_koons_assembling_upper_east_side_megamansion.php#more] of two enormous
Opinion
Unbeknown to the vast majority of New Yorkers, a street art project has quietly been taking place under the streets of our fair city, artist by artist and flashlight by flashlight. The Underbelly Project is a reaction against the overwhelming commercialization of street art. Project organizers Workh
Opinion
Every week, we'll recap the best comments we've received on Hyperallergic's posts, whether that's on the blogazine itself, on Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook. Be sure to check in every Friday for new comments. This week, readers respond to the UK arts funding cuts, Hans Ulrich Obrist's book reading ext
Art
You may have heard the term “Superflat” tossed around in relation to some paintings reminiscent of Saturday morning cartoons on crack, or maybe a series of drawings that look familiar, but with an extra dash of foreign, outer-space weirdness. You've probably heard of “kawaii” culture or maybe even K
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Did you know that Jeffrey Deitch is a celebrity? I bet you did. Did you know he lives in a “movie star mansion” in the “trendy L.A. neighborhood of Los Feliz”? I bet you didn't, and I bet you didn't care either. “Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form,” Deitch says. Well, the LA MoCA
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We at Hyperallergic know it's close to Halloween because of all the articles giving us last minute costume ideas! Now, a slutty viking or a faux-Gaga meat dress might be fine if you're just going to some random Halloween party with a bunch of normal people. But what if you're going to that special H
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Arts Council England, a group within the English governmental Department of Art, Media and Sport, is an organization entirely devoted to funding the arts, performing, visual and literary. In total, the council currently funds 880 arts organizations and events. In September, “Britain’s coalition gove
Books
The Brooklyn Museum's catalog for their Fred Tomaselli exhibition is pretty mammoth for a show that only takes up three galleries. Still, the tome serves well as a way to expand on ideas presented in the exhibition and give a greater view of the artist's work than would otherwise be possible in the
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Fashion, as it so often does, just caught a rash from the art world. The color spreading through the cheeks of this season's clothes is none other than International Klein Blue (IKB), the same unique hue dreamed up by the proto-postmodernist bad boy Yves Klein in 1962. Now, IKB is on your mom's purs
Art
The first offering of the Guggenheim's Youtube Play biennial kicked off with a lot of spectacle, not limited to a ladder-perch musical performance by Ok Go and a stage setting [http://hyperallergic.com/11332/guggenheim-play-biennial/] more suited to a television show than an art exhibition. From the
News
Think the United States' image abroad could use some updating? Well, take it to your local Bronx Museum! The Bronx Museum of the Arts is at the head of a new US State Department program called smART Power [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149944.htm], an initiative to expand diplomatic art o
Art
Over the past week, I've been writing about art's environmental impact and how that factors in to perceived artistic quality. What the debate boils down to for me is the question of whether art is worth its cost of production, and how we analyze a piece of art's efficacy or value. When we talking ab