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From Brooklyn to Russia’s Ural Region, Artists Cross Political and Geographic Borders

Exhibitions generated by independent curators have grown over the past two decades in number and significance.

Performance

A Sultry and Subversive 'Snow White,' with Ball Gags and Pole Dancing

How many times you heard the tale of Snow White? Surely you remember the pole dancing, the wigs made of large birdcages, and the lithe male bodies dusted with gold.

Art

Coming Soon to Manhattan, the First Independent Movie Theater in a Decade

It was August when news broke about Metrograph — the first independent movie theater to open in New York City in over a decade.

Guide

Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2016

Like a noble grizzly emerging, famished and irritable, from her den after months of hibernation, the New York art world is roaring aggressively into action for the annual Armory Week fairs.

Hyperallergic

Join Hyperallergic for a Conversation About Art and Revolution at PULSE

It's Armory Art Week in New York, and we we always look forward to finding ways to contribute a new critical perspective that will educate and illuminate an aspect of art.

Art

The Bawdy History of Medieval Playing Cards

Playing cards arrived in Europe from Asia sometime in the 14th century, and by 1367 they had their first citywide ban in Bern, Switzerland.

Interview

With Lace and Concrete, an Israeli Artist Reframes Abandoned Palestinian Homes

Naomi Safran-Hon has — by her own admission — terrible taste in music, which explains how she became a regular listener of Israel’s trashiest radio station, Galgalatz.

In Brief

Bringing van Gogh’s Life to the Big Screen at 12 Oil Paintings per Second

Described as "the world's first feature-length painted animation," a forthcoming film will tell the life story of Vincent van Gogh through over 120 of his own oil paintings.