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Artist studios in Illinois, New York, Ontario, Tennessee, and Israel.
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The Precarious Lives of Freelance Museum Educators
Museum educators are crucial to museums’ long-term public engagement, but these freelancers lack the job security of a full-time, salaried position.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the ancient city of Petra was added to Google Street View, Scotland Yard opened its "Black Museum" of historic crime artifacts to the public, and the US government is sued over lost footage of JFK's assassination.
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Two New Comics Memoirs Recount Tales of Coming Out and Life in Brooklyn
In Long Red Hair, Meags Fitzgerald examines conversations that helped shape at how she looks at herself, as well as the difficult road to her coming out as queer. Dean Haspiel's Beef with Tomato looks at his life as an artist and, in his words, a voyeur peering into the lives of other people on his
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Newly Discovered Photographs Show an Abstract Expressionist Thanksgiving
Jason Andrew of the Estate of Jack Tworkov recently uncovered a new cache of Thanksgiving photographs featuring some of the leading Abstract Expressionists.
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Some Doritos with Your Goya? Old Master Still Lifes Get an Update
With a bit too much time on my hands and a subscription to Adobe Photoshop I have been playing with an idea: what will happen to traditional still life paintings when elements from contemporary life are grafted into them?
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How a Rare Judas Painting Survived the 16th-Century English Reformation
During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an estimated 97% of religious art in England during the English Civil War.
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Keith Haring in Corn, and Other Artistic Thanksgiving Plates
This Thanksgiving, up your plating game and with some artist-inspired dishes courtesy of San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein.
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Rose Petal Mandalas, Queer Trauma, and Spiritually Intense Blowjobs
VIENNA — How to tell the story of these exhibitions, filled with so many works by AA and his friends and collaborators, including installations, collaborative works, performances, and even an exhibition within the exhibition?
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The Hunt for Ideas
Sometimes, if you're lucky, they land at your feet.
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Happy Thanksgiving from Hyperallergic!
Thanks to artist Faith Holland for serving up Thanksgiving to Hyperallergic readers.
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A Photographic Index of Illicit Objects Seized at the US Border
On the cover of Taryn Simon's Contraband is the corpse of a bird of prey, its body contorted over a nondescript envelope that was marked "home décor" and on its way from Indonesia to Miami, Florida, when it was seized at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.