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José Esteban Muñoz, a scholar in the field of queer politics and aesthetics and professor at New York University's Tisch School, has passed away, according to a notice on the University of Minnesota Press website and confirmed to Hyperallergic by his department at NYU.
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This duck tale is no canard: An Emirates car wash is in hot water after deploying a maritime facsimile of Florentijn Hofman's giant rubber duck — "Rubber Duck" (2009) — as a marketing stunt.
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French video and installation artist Laure Prouvost has been announced as the winner of the Tate's Turner Prize, given this year in Londonderry, UK.
Opinion
"Art," wrote Leo Tolstoy in an 1886 essay, "begins when one person, with the object of joining another or others to himself in one and the same feeling, expresses that feeling by certain external indications."
Performance
For a few hours last Sunday, e-flux’s Chinatown offices were bathed in red light as Free Cooper Union held an interpretive reading of the 41-page trustee meeting transcript first leaked to the Village Voice over the summer.
Art
On Saturday, December 7 at 11 am, join Hyperallergic editors Hrag Vartanian, Mostafa Heddaya, and Jillian Steinhauer in the aisles of Art Miami and Context for an hour-long tour of the fair with fellow readers, writers, critics, and cyberflaneurs.
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In a legal filing today first reported in the Detroit Free Press, a consortium of Detroit creditors aggressively make their case for the sale of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection. The document, dated November 26, charges that emergency manager Kevyn Orr has been insufficiently transparent ab
Performance
An evening Dada revue organized by Tristan Tzara, July 6, 1923's Soirée du Coeur à Barbe (Night of the Bearded Heart) was the site of an infamous altercation between Tzara's associates and Surrealist don André Breton at the Théâtre Michel in Paris.
Opinion
In his critique of the Gulf art boom for the Wall Street Journal late last month, Noah Feldman eagerly took up the cause of Tahrir's political muralists, dubiously trumpeting that this was "the first time in Arab history that the visual arts had a major impact on public consciousness."
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Yesterday's defiant response to Tuesday's 5Pointz whitewashing was rebuffed overnight, as the back-and-forth continues between members of the 5Pointz community and property owners Jerry and David Wolkoff of G&M Realty.
Interview
Peter Selz — prolific curator, art historian, and an instrumental figure in the scholarship on modern art — hardly bears introduction.
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In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan's devastation, the just-launched Filipino-American Museum (FAM) will host a fundraiser this Thursday, November 21, to benefit the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), an organization coordinating US-based private aid to the Philippines.