Completed in June, “Like Pearls” in as an animated and interactive web-based collage inspired by Farsi spam from Morehshin Allahyari’s inbox.
Daily Archives: September 3, 2014
A Musical Urban Intervention Turns Brooklyn into Trumpet City
North Brooklyn will soon be buzzing with the sound of a procession of trumpets, as an experiment in breaking up city noise with music takes over a stretch of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
Making Art from Politics in Bangladesh
Aicon Gallery in downtown Manhattan currently has an excellent exhibition up, Readymade: Contemporary Art from Bangladesh. It’s the obscure object of my art desire: a summer show offering a take on materials and craft that ranges from the familiar to the utopian-exotic.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights Nears Opening After Difficult Decade
After years of planning and controversy, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is officially opening on September 20 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Until Alleged Rapist Is Disciplined, Columbia Art Student Will Carry Mattress Around Campus
A Columbia University student who says she was raped in her dorm room on campus is launching a performance art piece to call attention to her experience as well as the larger epidemic of rape at US colleges.
Realize Your Artistic Potential at the School of Visual Arts
SVA’s broad curriculum encompasses communications, design, entertainment, and fine arts with a faculty of distinguished professionals and established artists who help make SVA one of the most respected colleges of the arts.
“Contemporary Views of December” by Mark Cugini
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Mark Cugini for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Photographing and Fashioning the Reality of Brazil
This summer the International Center of Photography is offering its public two shows of Latin American photography. On the first floor of the museum, curator Christopher Phillips presents the first major solo show of Brazilian photographer Caio Reisewitz in the US.
Worn Shoes, Four Miles of Yarn, and 400 Stories
WASHINGTON, DC — For Perspectives, Chiharu Shiota’s exhibition that opened last weekend at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the artist filled a corner of the lobby with nearly 400 individual worn shoes and four miles of yarn.
Superlooper: Ryan Gander’s Many Dimensions
“That was my first lucky break,” Gander recalls, as we sit down to discuss his work on the occasion of his latest exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery titled Make Every Show Like It’s Your Last.