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Eyebeam Shelves Move to Downtown Brooklyn
The arts and technology nonprofit Eyebeam recently cancelled its 2016 plans for a major space in the BAM Cultural District of Downtown Brooklyn, Hyperallergic has learned.
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The Radical Power of Classified Pop Music
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed the extent to which the NSA and others have encroached on our privacy, everyone from technologists, reporters, politicians, and voters have been engaging in an international debate around surveillance.
Opinion
13 Responses to the Beyoncé & Jay-Z Pic with the Mona Lisa
Some thoughts …
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a new Islamic museum, a mysterious art dealer, protest objects, Palestinian food controversy, art of coding, kangaroos boxing, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Tax
Good news from the IRS: you can be an artist even if you don’t make all that much money at it. Isn't that what we needed to hear?
Art
Sentenced: Swedish Artist Dan Park "Incited Against an Ethnic Group"
The imprisonment of artists and the shutting down of galleries by government agents are incidents we associate with North Korea, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia, not a progressive Scandinavian democracy.
Art
In Jamaica, Documenting — and Honoring — a Rich History
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Not too long ago, Jamaica’s tourism-promotion board hired some advertising wizards to cook up a clever slogan to help sell the island’s sunny, Caribbean charms to vacationers from North America. They came up with “We’re more than a beach. We’re a country.”
Art
Paintings Like Sand in Your Teeth: John Walker at Seal Point
Disclosure, in John Walker’s paintings, comes slowly. A dominant motif — zigzag stripes ranging up, down and across the canvas — colonizes the surface, establishing it as a realm of aggressively brushed abstract patterns. Then one by one, various incidentals emerge — a densely wooded island, a rocky
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Shrapnel from the Skies: The Paintings of David Lynch
PHILADELPHIA — “Is Mr. Lynch as compelling a fine artist as he has been a filmmaker?” That’s the challenge Ken Johnson throws down in his New York Times review of David Lynch: The Unified Field at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. And without missing a beat, “The short answer is no.”
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Anila Quayyum Agha Sweeps ArtPrize, Winning Both Jury and Public Grand Prize Awards
After years of jokes about Jesus paintings and quilts seducing the art crowds flocking to the Grand Rapids-based ArtPrize art competition, this year the juried and popular votes have synched up to reveal one big winner.
Art
Dealer to Collector: Your Art Sucks
The following "correspondence" was sent to us anonymously, and we publish it here as an archival document indicating the state of collector/dealer relationships in the 21st century.
Art
An Anti-Zen Garden Full of Skulls and More Unearthly Unease
The beauty and hell of utopia and dystopia is the subject of Japan Society's Garden of Unearthly Delights, which opened today in Manhattan.