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Depending on Nan Goldin
PARIS — I used to abhor Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” (1979-1986), her famous 45-minute operatic show of 800 color slides set to a choppy 80s pop music soundtrack.
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Hyperallergic is proud to announce that we're the media partner for the 2014 Elastic City Walks Festival.
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A Comics Artist Tackles the White Cube
Making comics about the art world is an excellent idea. And so, the premise of Brecht Vandenbroucke's White Cube is full of promise.
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Olafur Eliasson Creates a Riverbed in a Museum
Today, Riverbed, Olafur Eliasson's first solo exhibition at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, fills the museum's South Wing with dirt and rocks of all sizes, complete with a narrow, meandering trench of water, to transform the space into a craggy landscape.
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Yarn Artist Tries to Save Ocean, May Have Damaged It Instead
A New York–based artist trying to raise awareness about the ocean’s health is being accused of damaging it. Agata Oleksiak, the yarn artist better-known as Olek, traveled to Cancun earlier this month for an installation highlighting the ocean’s declining shark population, according to La Jornada.
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ArtRx LA
This week, Neckface hits LA, last chance to see Shannon Finley's multilayered abstractions, Byzantine chanting fills the Getty Villa, the first major show to explore the influence of African cultural astronomy opens, and more.
In Brief
The Puppy Is Present
The canine is present for this summer's most radical piece of performance art, an homage to one pup-ular retrospective held at the the Museum of Modern Art in 2010.
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The Human Face of a WWII Tragedy, in Full Color
LOS ANGELES — In August 1942, thousands of Japanese Americans from Los Angeles began their lives as prisoners on a wide stretch of prairie in northwestern Wyoming.
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Jess Hirsch & Cassie Thornton Duke It Out in 'TAG: Round 2’ at SPACES
TAG is a multi-stage artistic experiment that debuted with a collaboration between Jason Eppink (Queens, NY) and Thu Tran (Brooklyn, NY) this May at SPACES.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzA1NDEsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjEzOTAyMSwiY2giOjE5MzAsImNyIjo0MTY2NzEsImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6NTAzNTI2LCJmbCI6MjU4NDczL
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Locating Loss, from Damascus to Manhattan's Little Syria
“Audiences are understandably tired of the polarizing and dominant narratives of the mainstream media and political conversations,” Stephen Stapleton, co-founder of the arts non-profit Edge of Arabia, tells me on an afternoon in July.
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Pixels and Peas: A Supermarket Digital Drawing Odyssey
LONDON — For those not already aware of its existence, Middle England is, in its way, as mythical as Middle Earth. But copies of the Daily Mail outnumber the elvish runes.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, you're invited to make a communal public artwork out of reusable materials, reflect on the strange fate of Evita's corpse, watch a cult film classic in a community garden, visit a police station turned street art gallery, and stop by Times Square to see a reenactment of a classic Alfred J