PARK CITY, Utah — It feels slightly unfair to label the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday after a ten-day stint, flat and underwhelming due to a lack of a breakout, buzzing, hit movie along the lines of last year’s Fruitvale Station or the preceding’s Beasts of the Southern Wild.
January 28, 2014
Posted inArt
Living or Being Seen in Alex Prager’s Sun-Soaked Psyche
The sentiments of Bethany Cosentino from the band Best Coast float through my head whenever I view the artwork of Los Angeles–based photographer and filmmaker Alex Prager.
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Palisades Preservation Becomes a National Issue
The preservation of a natural vista in New Jersey in the face of an intruding development is moving from a local to national concern. The Palisades, that stretch of cliffs and streets viewable from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters branch of medieval art, have been protected for decades from any construction over 35 feet in order to maintain the uninterrupted tree line.
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Eccentric Artists Make Good Art (or So We Think)
We all know the stereotype of artists being a little … you know, different, but two researchers are now saying that if you’re perceived as being eccentric, people will think you make better art.
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City Council Member Calls for Inquiry on Fiscal Improprieties at Queens Library
Queens Library Director Thomas Galante out-earns nearly all senior public officials in New York City, including the mayor and the head of the public transit system, the New York Daily News has reported.
Posted inBooks
Gathering the Phantoms of Lost Art
Art history is very much a haunted field, with the specters of works obliterated, lost, hidden, or just vanished floating around it. Our visual culture is defined as much by destruction as it is by creation.
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New Jersey City University’s New MFA for Integrated Media Arts Production
MFA in Integrated Media Arts Production (IMAP) is a new two-year, full-time graduate program at New Jersey City University specifically geared toward independent media artists.
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Join Hyperallergic in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb 1, 6pm
Hyperallergic is in Los Angeles for the LA Art Book Fair and we’ve decided it’s time to invite all our SoCal readers to an informal meetup at a bar in downtown LA: Tony’s Saloon!
