Opinion
Will Crowdfunding Outpace Old-Fashioned Arts Patronage?
You can’t buy love, as The Beatles famously proclaimed, but perhaps you can buy cultural capital.
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On the Brink of Extinction, an Indigenous Language Gets Its First Dictionary
Despite their important role in strengthening cultures and communities, languages are fragile things.
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The Sounds of Nature, Transcribed and Composed
Sound maps of rivers and songs for cicadas are two examples of a new kind of music inspired by 19th-century German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Brothers trying to offload fake Goya get conned, gallery manager siphons off $450,000 from Botero sale, and French thieves make off with the King of Siam's crown.
Art
What Just Happened? The Björk Experience at MoMA
This morning, three Hyperallergic editors — Elisa Wouk Almino, Jillian Steinhauer, and Benjamin Sutton — ventured out to see the Museum of Modern Art’s latest foray into avant-garde pop star curating: Björk (an exhibition that needs no subtitle).
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The Best Way to Collect Contemporary Art: Patiently and Passionately
When art and commerce mix, a certain level of mania is inevitable: it’s what you get when passion and pragmatism collide.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, a show on LA's 100-year-old aqueduct opens, it's the last chance to see Helen Johnson's schizophrenic hanging canvases, there's a zine release party for photographer Tod Seelie, and more!
In Brief
Monica Lewinsky Casts a Shadow on Bill Clinton's Presidential Portrait
Is there a veiled allusion to Monica Lewinsky in the portrait of Bill Clinton on display in the National Portrait Gallery?
News
Study Finds Color Impacts Online Image Sharing
A new study revealed that red, purple, and pink promote image sharing online, while green, blue, black, and yellow suppress it
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Tijuana, LA, and Border Crossings with Contemporary Art
LOS ANGELES — “In the 1990s, after NAFTA, the border, and border art specifically, was viewed as a utopian thing, a hybrid of both cultures, the best of both worlds. A lot of the emblematic border art that we know now came from this school of thought, but anyone from Tijuana would know that these id
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Robert Irwin's Modern Ruin, Years in the Making, Set to Rise in West Texas
A couple of weeks ago, I went to 101 Spring Street, the former home and studio of Donald Judd, to hear about a new Robert Irwin project to be built at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
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ArtRx NYC
It's here again, and the art volk will be descending on New York for Armory Week.