Art
Tip of the Iceberg: The Vast Underbelly of the Art Market
"It's really business as usual," announced one Fabian Bocart in today's New York Times, apropos the putative stability of the art market.
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Hyperallergic
Reflections on the Yams Collective ArtTalk
We asked attendees to send us responses to our ArtTalk with the Yams in whatever form they liked so we could compile them here, offering a taste of the event in the process.
Art
David Bowie Is Everywhere
BERLIN — It was impossible, having been born in the 1980s, not to memorize David Bowie's song with Queen, “Under Pressure” (1981), as well as Bowie’s first top-five hit, at age 22, “Space Oddity” (1969) — a song that went on to actually be the first played in space. But I never had a direct relation
Art
Graffiti and Street Artists Take Over a Historic NYC Police Station
What do you get when you give over 65 street artists and graffiti writers free reign in a former police station? This.
Comics
Advice to Art Students
Some of the most valuable lessons you learn in college aren't from textbooks.
Art
Artists and Families Draw Attention to Death on the Roads of NYC
Earlier this month the New York City sites of 12 pedestrian or bicyclist fatalities by cars were memorialized with stencils of wings and roses.
Art
Kandinsky's Cosmic Consciousness
MILWAUKEE — In the foreword to the exhibition catalogue, Bernard Blistene and Alain Seban of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, glue together a new retrospective on Wassily Kandinsky with two words: “intrinsic coherence.”
Art
A 20th-Century Kiowa Photographer Whose Work Shows Tradition in Transition
For five decades at the beginning of the 20th century, Horace Poolaw photographed a Kiowa community in flux.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, photography's truth, the media's numbness to torture, the clock of the Met Museum, mass art, a photo no one would publish, mistakes in Medieval English architecture, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Flag
This week it was revealed that the masterminds behind the mysterious appearance of a white flag atop the Brooklyn Bridge on July 22nd were artists after all.
Art
Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons and the Culture of Hyperbole
Recently, I read a statement by Kenneth Turan, film critic for the LA Times, that struck a chord. As a poet and art critic, it is impossible to ignore the reams of exaggeration I am bombarded with on a daily basis, from blurbs attesting to the gorgeous mastery to be found in a young poet’s first boo
Art
A Fundamental Rupture: 'Itself Not So' at Lisa Cooley
An intriguing concept: how to create an art exhibition about the inability to communicate? That is what curator Rachel Valinsky has set out to do in Itself Not So, the current group show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side, and for the most part, the selection she has made neatly vaults past the i