Guide
Your Concise Guide to the 2014 Greenpoint Open Studios
A whopping 265 artists are taking part in this weekend's Greenpoint Open Studios (GOS). Here's your concise guide to exploring one of the city's most enjoyable open studio events.
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Art
Five Rules for (Kinda) Viewing Art
Art critic Philip Kennicott published a guide to viewing art in the Washington Post this week. Lovely and thoughtful though it is, parts of it just seemed sort of ... old-fashioned, you know?
Giveaways
Enter to Win Tickets to MoMA PS1's Sunday Sessions
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Opinion
Artist Acquitted of Obscenity, but Chill of Censorship Endures
MELBOURNE, Australia — Earlier this week, fifteen months after police raided and destroyed artist Paul Yore’s installation "Everything is Fucked" (2013), magistrate Amanda Chambers dismissed all charges against the artist and ordered the police to pay the costs of shutting down his exhibition.
Art
Unemployment as Artwork
WASHINGTON, DC — In a tiny storefront in DC’s Shaw neighborhood, Paul Shortt grimaces as his gray dress pants rip along the seams. They’re clearly inadequate for his large, bearlike figure, but he loops a belt through and leaves the pants unbuttoned.
Art
Consummating the Erotic Art of Two Souls
Invisible-Exports’ current show represents the agglutination of two transgressive, visionary, and carnal artists born 50 years apart in the 20th century.
Books
Pensive Portraits Behind the Office Doors of 50 Therapists
"In contrast to other medical specialists' offices with their practical equipment of examining tables and rolling tools, the therapist's work space has few obvious demands beyond seating for clinician and patient," psychiatrist and photographer Sebastian Zimmermann writes in an introduction to Fifty
Poetry
Two Poems by Morgan Parker
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by Morgan Parker for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Australia, Canada, and the United States.
Art
Reckoning with the City in the 21st Century
Ezra Pound wrote that all great art is born from the metropolis, so it's no surprise that the metropolis itself has become one of art's primary motifs.
Art
The Frontier of the Art World
GALVESTON, Texas — The idea of a boomtown is part of the myth of the United States of America. Like dreamers huddled around storytellers in an ethereal oasis, Americans like tales of prosperity that lead to legends of streets paved with gold.
News
The Art Newspaper Sold to Russian Collector
The Art Newspaper has been acquired by a Russian art collector and entrepreneur, according to a release from the publication this morning.