Books
A Photographic Journey Across Iceland in Search of Magic
Spanish photographer Bego Antón traveled across Iceland, visiting the people who see and live with the country's magical creatures.
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Black-and-White Animation Made out of Tiny Pins
Created completely by hand, the analog process yields a warmth and idiosyncratic quality hard to reproduce with digital technology.
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The Clever Concrete Poetry of a Benedictine Monk
Dom Sylvester Houédard, friends with the beatniks, littered his texts with references to god and prayer, and had a peculiar sense of humor.
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Artists Teach You How To Make Collaborative Drawings, DIY Reliquaries, Read Tarot, and More
The third edition of the omnivorous BombPop!Up series of workshops and performances takes over the National Academy of Design.
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Only 110 Confederate Monuments Have Been Removed, While 1,728 (and Counting) Remain
The Southern Poverty Law Center has tallied nearly 2,000 Confederate symbols in public spaces, from monuments to schools named for Confederate figures.
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Larry Bell Exhibits at His Hometown Museum, the Harwood in Taos
Larry Bell is widely known as a Southern California “Light and Space” artist. Few people know, however, that Bell has lived and worked in Taos, New Mexico since 1973.
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University of North Carolina Students Accuse Administration of Artwashing
A campus-wide fundraising initiative features the slogan "Arts Everywhere," but art and art history students feel their needs are being systematically neglected.
Books
Lorna Simpson’s Glowing Collages of Women and Heads of Hair
The artist's collages feature portraits of women cut from advertisements, their tresses painted and collaged into pools of color that spread onto the page like oil spills.
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Win a Pair of Passes to Dirty Looks, a Queer Film and Performance Festival in LA
Hyperallergic is giving away three pairs of festival passes that will get you and a friend into all of 31 events.
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A Project Casts Artists and Their Mentors as Children and Parents
For Parent Project, Seamus Gallagher and two of his cohort at the College for Creative Studies created works by following the instructions of mentors and role models.
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Upending Clichés About Nationhood, Asylum, and Living Through War
An exhibition in Chiang Mai, Thailand contends with the pain and despair of life washed in economic disparity, genocide, war, and the complexities of nationhood.
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The History of Sign Painting in Los Angeles
Two Angeleno artists discuss the rich history of sign painting in this visually cacophonous metropolis.