In Brief
"The Artist's Memory Is a Dangerous, Necessary Thing"
The New York Review of Books has published the writer Hilton Als's excellent commencement speech this year at Columbia University's School of the Arts this year.
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Artists's Work Caught in Canadian Customs Quagmire
Canadian Border Services have barred Iranian-born filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi from bringing an artwork into Canada because of the country's sanctions against Iran, the Globe and Mail reported.
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Freelance Curators "Either Grossly Underpaid or Grossly Overpaid"
Following reports of Italian art historian Germano Celant getting paid three-quarters of a million Euros (~$1 million) to curate a pavilion for the upcoming Milan Expo, The Art Newspaper conducted an investigation into the pay of independent curators.
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Stretching the Truth of Photography
Photography’s initial accomplishment was to allow for the instantaneous transformation of a four-dimensional object or event into a static, two-dimensional representation. However, in the catalogue for the 1970 exhibition Photography into Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, Peter C. Burnell insis
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Painting with 5,000 Facebook Friends in Your Studio
LOS ANGELES — Most artists like to think of their studios as private domains: as places where they can wrestle with the problems and possibilities of art making without anyone looking over their shoulder. Mark Dutcher, a Los Angeles painter, has spent the last five years gradually breaking down that
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Street Murals Designed to Reduce Pedestrian Deaths
Drivers need to slow down. Traffic deaths are a serious problem across the United States, with pedestrian fatalities increasing in past years. One effort to keep eyes on the road is the use of colorful street art — painted right on the streets.
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What the New York Skyline Will Look Like in 2020
New York City's iconic skyline continually changes, even if the most adored landmarks still date from the early part of the 20th century.
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Art Movements
DIA reaches 80% of "grand bargain" goal, Corcoran files a rebuttal against merger detractors, Hobby Lobby plans Biblical museum, and more from the week in art news.
Books
Drugs, Guns, Photographs: Taking Shots with William S. Burroughs
Writer William S. Burroughs took thousands of photographs from the 1950s to 1970s, but it's likely you've not seen many as even he didn't treat them like an art, but a mode of disrupting time.
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Sotheby's Lays Off Staff Amid Restructuring
Sotheby's auction house underwent a round of layoffs today as part of an internal restructuring, CNBC reported. The cuts, which come three days after the company announced a major partnership with eBay, were announced in a companywide meeting at 9am this morning, Hyperallergic has learned.
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Visualizing Disease: A Survey of Public Health Posters
Striking visuals have long been essential to disease awareness, using art to convey the invisible menace of a microscopic virus and its destructive symptoms.
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Relics of Slavery and Hate, on Display in New York
The objects on display in the New-York Historical Society's Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War exhibition tell the harrowing story of slavery in America through textiles.