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Live from #ALLTHEINSTRUMENTS at the Hammer Museum, Day 1
LOS ANGELES — We're at the Hammer Museum in LA for the two-day performance concert, #AllInstrumentsAgree.
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Clifford Owens’s Scatological Whispers
In the past five or six years, Clifford Owens’ provocative performance work has begun to garner notable, sometimes polarizing, attention.
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Daisy Craddock’s Pastel Drawings: If Landscapes Could Talk
If a dollop of paint or a chunk of stone could talk, might it reveal just how much it enjoyed having been scraped across a canvas by a Joan Mitchell or picked at by the masterful, form-seeking hands of an Isamu Noguchi?
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Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Lesley Vance
LOS ANGELES — “We are drinking beer, right? Because I’m celebrating, “ Lesley Vance says to me when I arrive at her house in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Teachers Protest Eli Broad’s Support for Charter Schools on His Museum's Opening Day
LOS ANGELES — The new Broad Museum has received criticism for exhibiting a safe, market-friendly collection of familiar names, but the protest held in front of the museum on opening day had nothing to do with art.
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Slouching Towards Banksy's Dismaland
WESTON-SUPER-MARE, UK — Someone really should have sent a disgruntled teenager to review Dismaland, the latest Banksy extravaganza: part amusement park, part art exhibition tucked away in an abandoned former resort complex at the British seaside town of Weston-super-Mare.
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Learning Greensboro: When Personal Life Becomes Public History (Part 1)
GREENSBORO, NC — As a working artist, I spend a great deal of my time elsewhere from home.
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Arts Organizers Convene to Confront Their Own Privilege
MINNEAPOLIS — On my flight back to New York from Minneapolis, I sat in silence processing all the heavy ideas and questions asked over the weekend at Hand in Glove, a national gathering for arts organizers “working at the crossroads of creative arts administration and studio practice,” as stated in
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Musée d’Orsay couldn't open on the first day of its Images of Prostitution exhibition due to a union strike, Zaha Hadid walked out of an interview with BBC Radio 4, and a mysterious new emoji perplexed Apple users.
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Public Portraits Honor Detroit’s Storied Writers and Poets
DETROIT — It seems ridiculous to think of a five-by-seven-foot portrait as being subtle, but that is the word that springs immediately to mind during an encounter with Nicole Macdonald’s large portraits of important figures in Detroit’s history and present.
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Join Hyperallergic for an #ArtTalk About NYC Artist Housing at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109
With the grand opening of El Barrio's Artspace PS109 — New York's newest artist housing initiative — happening this Saturday, we thought it would be a good time to explore the challenges of affordable artist housing in the city.
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The Unsettled Legacy of John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent’s brilliance as a painter should be obvious to anyone with eyes. And yet a perennial caveat inevitably surfaces in much of the discussion that accompanies exhibitions of his work.