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Hidden Art in a Chinatown Massage Parlor Subtly Confronts China's Imbalances
Something is amiss and slightly menacing in one of Manhattan's numerous Chinatown massage parlors.
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Worst.Press.Release.Ever: Luxury
Although we have yet to undertake a formal taxonomy of bad press releases, here at Hyperallergic we have discerned different kinds.
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Getty Foundation Announces New Grants to Conserve Modern Architecture
This week, the first awardees in the new Keeping It Modern grant initiative from the Getty Foundation were announced for 20th-century modernist architecture that requires long-term conservation planning.
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An Artist-Turned-Drag Queen Reigns in Berlin
BERLIN — Fellas, I wanna know if I could talk to ya for just a minute. ... Is it okay? The sultry voice cut through the din of hundreds of people. Chandelier Divine Brown’s lip-synch performance of the 1990s a cappella “Work This Pussy,” by American transgender vocalist Sweet Pussy Pauline, sent the
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Unsettling Psychic Photography from the 1930s
On May 15, 1934, a man named Mr. C.P. MacCarthy of Sheffield sent a letter confirming a meeting where he would "demonstrate under test conditions Fake Psychic Photography."
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Photographer Returns Prize Money Over Editorial Pressure
Iranian photographer and journalist Newsha Tavakolian has returned a €50,000 prize (~$64,600) after the patron behind the award allegedly placed editorial pressure on her work, the New York Times' Lens photography blog reported.
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Dancing Among the Dead
“If you want to survive the 19th century,” Allison Meier wryly observed, “don't get on a boat or go to the theater.” Meier, who has been giving tours of cemeteries in New York City since 2011 (and is a Hyperallergic staff writer), held aloft a lantern illuminating the granite obelisk marking the mas
Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Tom Chamberlain
All paintings have their own speed — in execution and in what it takes to read them. Tom Chamberlain makes work that is durational in both its formation (or erasure) and in the time required to witness its self-disclosure.
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This Richard Prince–Inspired T-Shirt Hates Copyright
Nothing quite says "fuck you" to copyright like a Mickey Mouse–meets–Richard Prince T-shirt.
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Sculpting a Nordic Landscape
BODØ, Norway — Artscape Nordland (Skulpturlandskap Nordland), an opus of site-specific sculpture in northern Norway, includes 35 works scattered throughout Nordland county (and one in Troms), made by international artists hailing from 18 countries.
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Curious Visual Guides to Victorian Pseudoscience
What if all your woes could be healed by some good thinking? Back in the 19th century, mesmerism was all the rage, merging nicely with the DIY Victorian parlor entertainment and hefty dose of quack medicine making the rounds — from questionable experiments in electricity to phrenology.