Art
Machines Triggered by the Ghost of Thomas Eakins
Artist Fernando Orellana is summoning the ghost of Thomas Eakins to Philadelphia through art machines and nude models.
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A Performance Counters Violence with Meditations on Empathy
On November 6, the Moving Company will stage a new performance, in which mover Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze will dance in cement shoes and yellow-feathered knee pads, while Tina Wang and Mor Mendel joust with fly swatters.
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From Dürer to Ensor, a Collection of Prints Gives Us Grim Reminders of Death
The 54 lots in this Christie's online auction span from the 15th to the 20th century and demonstrate an array of European attitudes towards death.
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An Artist’s Fantastical Drawings of Cars, Made While Living in One
For 18 years, William A. Hall lived in his car, a pale yellow 1972 Dodge Dart, and spent the same amount of time reimagining it.
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VCUarts Painting + Printmaking Seeks MFA Candidates for 2017
The VCUarts Painting + Printmaking Masters in Fine Arts program provides excellent opportunities for artists to work, reflect, experiment and study.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MjEyMTIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjo0ODk3MDcsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxNzU5NDc3LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjIwODg0ODksI
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Aboriginal Women Artists and Their Visions of Infinity
These paintings, filled with traditional abstract Aboriginal iconography denoting nature, spirits, and a way of life that has been passed down for generations, are a wonder.
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Photographs of Poverty Measure Broken Systems and Lives
Eugene Richards's Below the Line: Living Poor in America isn't about sympathy but something more.
Music
Time Traveling with Musical Recordings from Mid-20th-Century Morocco
In 1959, Paul Bowles traveled around Morocco with an audio recording device to capture a cultural moment he knew was on the verge of disappearing.
Art
A Multisensory Installation Inspired by the Humble Honeybee
Wolfgang Buttress's “The Hive” is an environment designed to amplify public awareness of the critical situation of bees.
Poetry
One Poem by Candace Williams
Our new poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Candace Williams for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
In Brief
Van Gogh's 128-Year-Old Bed May Rest in a Dutch Village
While researching his latest van Gogh book, scholar Martin Bailey tried to track down the yellow bed the artist famously painted and developed an alternate theory as to why he sliced his ear.
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Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute Centralizes Its Formerly Diffuse MFA Fine Arts Studios
The school's studios for graduate students in Fine Arts are now all housed under one roof, in the hulking former Pfizer factory on Flushing Avenue.