News
US Customs Officials Confiscate Sculpture Made of Weapons
A legal battle is brewing over a sculpture by Mozambican artist Gonçalo Mabunda after customs officials, considering it a weapon, confiscated it from its owner.
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Art
ArtRx NYC: Fall Guide
Welcome to Hyperallergic's first ever New York Art Guide for fall 2015.
Announcement
Hermann Nitsch's “Leviticus” Now on View at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art’s installation features Hermann Nitsch’s large scale book "Leviticus" opened to the segment describing the High Priest’s sacrificial service.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6OTMyNjAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyOTg2MjAsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIj
Art
Decaying Barns Transformed into Art
PORT AUSTIN, Mich. — The lakeside town of Port Austin, MI, is not what you’d call a bustling cultural center — more like a humble and self-assured farming community off the beaten track, where, as everyone likes to tell you, over and over, you can see the sun rise and set over Lake Huron all in the
Books
How the First Illustrated English Book Described the Universe
The first illustrated English book was ambitious, describing large ideas like the roundness of the Earth and why we experience day and night.
News
Anish Kapoor's Versailles Sculpture Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Slurs
Anish Kapoor’s "Dirty Corner" (2011–15) sculpture in the gardens of Palace of Versailles has been vandalized again but this time with offensive words, including anti-Semitic slurs.
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New Bushwick Gallery Promises to Exhibit "Subversive and Difficult Art"
A new gallery is opening on Meserole Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, next month, and according to its eponymous director, Christopher Stout, it will have a “program of showing subversive and difficult art.”
News
A Procession of Black Love Responds to Controversial Michael Brown Exhibition in Chicago
CHICAGO — After the scene of Michael Brown’s death was staged at Guichard Gallery as an artwork this summer, there was a public discussion about the exhibition and the fact that it was created by an artist who identified as white, Ti-Rock Moore.
Art
LA's Architecture and Design Museum Reopens with a Show on the Future of Housing
LOS ANGELES — Every city has its own characteristic architectural forms. For New York, it’s the skyscraper. San Francisco has the Victorian. But in Los Angeles, residential architecture is the defining element of the urban fabric.
Art
An Opinionated Chinese Art Critic Who Breaks the Mold
CHENGDU, China — ARTWOCA’s writing is part ferocious critique, part gossip, and part adventure in typography.
Comics
A Victim of Bad Curation
At age 16, I entered into a fair an artwork about a dead poodle.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Wim Wenders and reactionary sentimentalism, the importance of Palmyra, when civilization started to discriminate against women, the power of images, African Americans and appropriation, and more.