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ArtRx NYC
This week, salsa dancing in a museum, learn from Martha Rosler about gentrification, talk about endangered languages with Mariam Ghani, explore Museum Mile, and more.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a solid gold and diamond-encrusted statue of an eagle was stolen, a subversive Malaysian street artist was charged with "violating multimedia laws," and a gnome sculpture went missing.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Daniel Rolnik Gallery holds an epic art carnival, Skylight Books hosts a discussion on art and gentrification, the Getty Center brings back its Friday Flights performance series, and more.
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Photographer Dennis Morris Sues Richard Prince Over Sid Vicious Images
Music photographer Dennis Morris is suing conceptual artist Richard Prince and his gallery, Gagosian, for copyright infringement.
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Extracting a Rainbow of Color from Invasive Plants
Every once in a while I see a show that makes me feel good, even hopeful about this overheated, self-aggrandizing, status-obsessed art scene in New York. Chroma Botanica: Ellie Irons & Linda Stillman was such an exhibition for me.
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Gazing at Photographs that Look At and Past Us
SAN FRANCISCO — “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me […] It is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass,” Ralph Ellison’s narrator declares in Invisible Man.
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Rome’s New Subway Line Will Incorporate Freshly Discovered Ancient Ruins
Rome will have what city officials are calling its first "archaeological station" after a construction team recently uncovered 2nd-century CE Roman barracks during ongoing work on the city's third metro line.
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Cycling Through Tino Sehgal’s “Constructed Situations" in Marrakesh
MARRAKESH — As the afternoon sun radiated onto Jemaa el-Fna square in the old medina quarter of the city, nine bodies emerged before me on the ground, beatboxing and gyrating, surrounded by curious onlookers.
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Norman Foster’s High-Concept Drone Airport Will Bring Aid to Rwanda
By 2030, every rural town in Africa could be equipped with an undulating red brick droneport, designed by starchitect Norman Foster, to serve as a hub for deliveries of crucial medical supplies.
Podcast
Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman on Their Arts-Centric Super PAC #Podcast
In our third episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, we talk to artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman about their For Freedoms Super PAC.
Announcement
What You’ll Find at the SVA Makers Market
The inaugural SVA Makers Market celebrates the entrepreneurial, do-it-yourself spirit of SVA’s alumni community and features over 50 SVA vendors selling apparel, accessories and jewelry; furniture, decorative objects and housewares; and stationery and self-published books, magazines and comics. [htt
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Montrealers Stumped After City Commissions Pricey Tree Sculptures
A public art project to put granite sculptures of trees in a park is blossoming into a major controversy in Montreal.