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London Mayor Promises to Provide and Protect Affordable Artist Studios
London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced plans yesterday to set up a trust to finance and secure affordable artists’ studios across the city.
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Opinion
Collective Pens Open Letter to Creative Time Regarding Femen
This letter was sent to Hyperallergic by the QOLEKTIV collective, in response to the Creative Time Summit in Washington, DC, earlier this month.
Art
Found Furniture Pulverized into Conceptual Art
For his exhibition, Daniel Turner turned a set of steel and wood tables and folding chairs into a fine dust and sprayed it on the floor of Berlin's König Galerie.
Comics
'Doomocracy' Now
A visit to Pedro Reyes's politically themed haunted house may be scarier than you think.
Art
When a Drowned Woman's Face Became the Muse of Paris
The face of "L'Inconnue de la Seine" was a fashionable fixture of salons and studios, her enigmatic expression of a slight smile and closed eyes haunted by stories of her suicide.
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SVA’s Curatorial Practice Program Trains Curators with a Hands-on Approach
SVA’s Curatorial Practice Program trains curators with a hands-on approach. Students work directly with leading curators, making exhibitions and other curatorial ventures, delving into history and theory while doing thorough practical training in curatorial practice.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/ey
Art
The Early Life of Bruce Conner and His Rat Bastard Bohemia
To say that Conner was an outsider who also wanted to belong is to barely scratch the surface of his paradoxical persona.
Art
Finding the Realism in Impressionist Childe Hassam's Work
The artist painted the rocks and coves of Appledore Island so realistically, they could be identified more than a century later.
Art
Lessons from the Unfolding Old Masters Forgery Scandal
The authenticity of recently "discovered" works purported to be by Frans Hals, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Orazio Gentileschi has been called into question, and they might only be the tip of the iceberg.
Comics
What Happens When You Put Nine Artists in a Barn?
Last week, I invited over a handful of my favorite illustrators and said: "Take over the place!"
News
Students March on Art Institute of Chicago to Protest Trustee’s Ties to Public Education Cuts
In the thick of the city’s rush hour, a row of protesters blockaded the stretch of Michigan Avenue to call out a museum trustee for his complicity in cuts to higher education in Illinois.
Art
In Amsterdam’s Red Light District, Street Artists Tell Tourists: “No Fucking Photos"
Though Amsterdam's sex workers have long reprimanded tourists attempting to take pictures of them, doing some has become much harder in the age of the smartphone.