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A November 2, Supreme Court hearing attempted to answer the question of whether or not video games are free speech, reports the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/us/03scotus.html]. How do we decide what constitutes violence in a video game, and who has access to it? Contemporary art
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With the news of Jeff Koons new mansion rising on the Upper East Side comes the tantalizing thought of what it would be like to hang out in some other superstar artists' homes. Studios are cool and all, but the real fun would come with the art-installation living rooms and the nursery that looks mor
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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
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Some things leave us speechless and this bite of Twitter wisdom is one of them. There are no words for this ridiculousness though it really does put things into perspective. For information on the history of US arts funding, visit a post [http://blog.art21.org/2009/07/08/arts-stimulus-funding-pt-1/]
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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
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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
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The Washington Post, always the voice for the powerful, connected, and well-moneyed, has an article on the victims of art dealer Lawrence Salander. They've tracked down Earl Davis, the son of American modern master Stuart Davis, some psychiatrist whose father's collection was entrusted to the dealer
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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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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
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As soon as we heard [http://hyperallergic.com/11464/hell-yes-isa-genzken-new-museum/] that Isa Genzken’s “Rose” will replace Ugo Rondinone’s “Hell,Yes” (2001) on the exterior of the New Museum … we immediately thought Photoshop! Our little digital collage experiments suggest that fiction is often mo
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Picasso would have turned 129 today, if the polymath artist, sculptor and co-inventor of cubism hadn't died in 1973 at the age of 92. Born in 1881, the artist rapidly commenced almost a full century of being awesome. So today we will put this Jonathan Richman song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZW