Art
You Can Kickstart an Urban Human Compost Center
At death in the United States we are faced with two options: burial or cremation.
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The Nutty Squirrel That Dressed in Drag
"You can't be friends with a squirrel — a squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit," Sarah Jessica Parker once quipped. Obviously she had never encountered Tommy Tucker.
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An Architectural Competition to Reimagine the World's Most Remote Human Settlement
Despite an active volcano, intense winds, and a location 10 days by boat from its nearest neighbor, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas — the most remote human settlement in the world — has endured for nearly two centuries.
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Leon Golub's Never-ending Fight Against the War Machine
LONDON — The conversation of war has dwindled.
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Hyperallergic and Walker Art Center Partner for Superscript Blog Mentorship Program
To put ideas discussed at the Superscript arts journalism and criticism conference into practice, Hyperallergic is partnering with the Walker Art Center to announce the Superscript Blog Mentorship.
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The Radical Art of Archiving Performance, as Practiced by Martha Wilson
The day after I went to go see the Martha Wilson: Downtown and Performing Franklin Furnace exhibitions in New York City, a friend brought me to a lecture-performance by Carolee Schneemann at a raw gallery space in Tribeca run by Hunter College.
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A Video Game Lets You Navigate Giorgio de Chirico's Surreal Cityscapes
With their long shadows and lonely colonnades, Giorgio de Chirico’s paintings possess a strange allure. I've always wondered what it would be like to wander through them.
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Drawings by a Ladies’ Man: Impressions of Leonard Cohen
Alongside his prolific career as a singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen has been a poet, a novelist, a monk in Los Angeles, and, perhaps most obscurely, an artist.
Interview
Douglas Coupland Wants to Give You Brain Orgasms
TORONTO — "I like art about art. I think many people pussyfoot around this issue."
Art
An Artist Turns Invasive Plants into Paper Sculptures
DETROIT — How often is an artist willing to introduce an element of chance to her solo gallery opening?
Art
Wim Wenders Trains His Lens on a Photojournalist
Wim Wenders co-directed The Salt of the Earth, a portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, with Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro. The film is both a comprehensive portrait of Salgado’s work and a meditation on the vocation of photojournalism.
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In a New Residency, Artists Make Work by Volunteering
The small, circular portrait features the face of a man in gold. Creases cut through his forehead, and patches of hair line his thick lips.