Art
Breaking Down ArtReview's 2014 Power 100 List
ArtReview has released its annual list of the 100 most powerful people in the contemporary art world and, once again, the only surprising thing about the list is how utterly unsurprising it is.
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Announcement
BAM Presents "Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films," Nov 6–8
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Books
Lunar Mountains and Divine Spheres: 1,000 Years of Illustrating Outer Space
In a new book called Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time, published this month by Abrams, Michael Benson examines over a thousand years of mapping the great beyond.
Art
A Young Artist Debuts at Gagosian, Thanks to Richard Prince
Richard Prince unwittingly gave an emerging conceptual artist his Gagosian debut. The appropriation artist's current Gagosian exhibition New Portraits — which Hyperallergic's Tiernan Morgan dismissed as "an amusing exercise, but it doesn’t translate as great art" — features an Instagram photo from S
Comics
Do Artists Need Computers?
Last week, my computer died.
Art
The Cynical Optimism of Errol Morris
In an interview earlier this year with The European Magazine, Errol Morris was asked to use one word to describe his work. His answer: "perverse."
Art
Get Creative for Hyperallergic & Storefront's Critical Halloween Costume Competition
We all know that Halloween is a time to be festive and creative, but did you know it's also a great time to be critical? In your costume, that is, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture's Critical Halloween.
Art
An English Shire Arrives in Bushwick for Exchange Rates
Don't be intimidated by Blackwater Polytechnic's ominous name. The British artist collective and alternative art school has a very benevolent goal: To nurture and promote the work of artists and artisans based in Essex. To that end, the group will be showcasing members' works at Brooklyn's Theodore
Art
Harlem Is the Place
Harlem, like the rest of New York, is changing. The exhibition Sense of Place at Tatiana Pagés Gallery — part of the Hyperplace Harlem arts festival, which ran October 4 to 6 — rightly explores place more as a conundrum than a settled concept.
Opinion
The Hudson Valley Art Scene Does Not Need Saving
Writer and editor James Trainor’s recent essay in Artsy about the Hudson Valley art scene — obnoxiously titled “The Hinterlands: Can artists and dealers change the creative and economic landscape of Upstate New York?” — reads like a call to artist-saviors to move up the Hudson in order to colonize t
Art
Ann Hamilton's Distorted Scans of Natural History
Tails, feathers, claws, paws, and slender toes peak out from blurred scans of natural history specimens included in Ann Hamilton's new exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle.
In Brief
Army to Spend $600,000 on World War I Paintings
The US Army has received a $600,000 budget allocation for the purchase of works by Samuel Johnson Woolf, Defense News reported.