Art
3 Critics Pick Their Favorites at Bushwick's Beat Nite
We asked three Hyperallergic editors to offer their picks of the best in the neighborhood's art galleries.
Mostafa Heddaya
Opinion
Everything Old Is New Again: GIFs Edition
Wow, digital art man, it's so fresh, like short moving pictures in the Graphics Interchange Format and cyber-self-portraits and the printer that will make a flimsy thing out of plastic just like that.
News
The Mysterious Resignation of the Cleveland Museum of Art Director
On Monday, Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin abruptly resigned his post, noting in a statement that he needed to spend more time pursuing "research and writing." But according to Cleveland alt-weekly Scene, there's more to the story …
News
52 Weeks of Art and Human Rights in the Emirates
This week saw the launch of 52 Weeks of Gulf Labor, a yearlong activist project coordinated by Gulflabor, a working group opposed to the treatment of laborers at Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island cultural mega-development.
News
Filipino American Museum Launches in New York
When the Filipino American Museum (FAM) opens its first show at Soho's Third Streaming on October 29, one of New York's largest Asian communities will formally attain a museum institution of their own.
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News
Banksy's Queens Sphinx [UPDATE 3]
New York's wandering street sophist today deposited his latest work, a replica of Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza, in what appears to be a vacant lot in Queens.
News
Rappers in Tunisia Unionize
In response to the increasing prosecution of rappers in Tunisia as part of a broader crackdown on free expression by the country's Islamist government, rappers in the country have formed a union.
Opinion
Detroit Sports Profit as DIA Collection Considered for Collateral
As the Detroit Institue of Arts (DIA) continues its long slide to Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's butcher block, several issues have come to light regarding the fate of its artwork and the financial context of the Detroit bankruptcy.
Art
Blessed Are the Makers: The Rise and Fall of 3rd Ward
The sudden collapse last week of art center and studio/co-working space 3rd Ward unceremoniously revealed the incompetence with which the company was managed and its frighteningly anemic cash flows. But the DIY conglomerate's rise since 2006 brings up some altogether more challenging questions about
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Free Cooper Remixes Banksy Confessional
For the latest in their inventive visual mockery of Cooper Union president and unalloyed economic realist Jamshed Bharucha, the student activists of Free Cooper Union satirically reconfigured a Banksy work that popped up near the school's campus over the weekend.
News
What's Happening at 3rd Ward Philadelphia?
Though 3rd Ward had been a pillar of the Brooklyn creative community for seven years, the Philadelphia branch — also shuttered this week — had only opened in April 2013, and the devastation to the burgeoning community of members and employees has been just as bad.
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3rd Ward CEO Confirms Closure in Letter to Instructors
The following letter from Jason Goodman confirming that his beleaguered organization is shutting down was emailed to 3rd Ward instructors at 9:39 pm EDT.