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Santa Claus plays pool at a dive bar; giant muppets and nutcrackers fill a neon-lit lawn; a glowing sign reads “Happy Birt Jesus:” These are a few examples of suburban America’s take on the 2,000-year-old religious tradition of Christmas, as captured by photographer Jesse Rieser in his series Happy
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The ephemeral circumstances of the festival and the disposition (natural, habituated, or chemically enhanced) of so many attendees creates an unusual environment for viewing and engaging with art.
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PARIS — Perhaps out of a kindred permissive, libertine spirit, prostitution — both chic demi-mondaine and lascivious, pierreuse street-walker style — played a central role in the nascent development of modern painting.
News
This week in art news: a fire at Brazil's Museum of the Portuguese Language left one dead, the family of art dealer Daniel Wildenstein braced for a trial over $600M in tax fraud and money laundering, and archivists preserved artworks left in the streets of Paris after last month's terror attacks.
Hyperallergic
Happy holidays from Hyperallergic! Thanks to artist Faith Holland for bringing us the festive spirit.
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Discussions of West African portrait photography tend to gravitate towards the 1960s and 1970s, the era of such well-known artists as Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and Samuel Fosso.
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Christmas card imagery today ranges from the classic depictions of elves and reindeer to the more comical and topical, but every picture is assuredly holiday-themed: you wouldn't be able to unironically give someone a Christmas card on their birthday.
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HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — One can detect a sense of barely contained glee underlying Dylan Spaksky's effort to include everyone in his fun.
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The vivid, comic book–like mural depicts bees being driven from their hives by "evil crops developer Dr. Dor," a white hipster type with skinny black trousers and square-frame eyeglasses.
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LONDON — white, Edmund de Waal’s intervention at the Royal Academy (RA) library, is a wonder.
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From the 16th to 19th century, clockmaking in Europe saw increasingly elaborate marriages of interior mechanics and exterior design.
In Brief
In 1912, when Asturian architect Manuel del Busto designed Church of Santa Barbera, in the Spanish town of Llanera, the skateboard hadn't yet been invented.