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Artist studios in California, New York, Ontario, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.
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Mimi Smith's Battle with Chase Manhattan Bank
Censored, blown up by terrorists, and the subject of a four-year legal battle with Chase Manhattan Bank, Mimi Smith’s 1982 installation "October 1, 1981," an artwork inspired by television news, was briefly the subject of the news itself.
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Faster than Sound: Color in the Age of Silent Film
Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, high-definition contemporary world. Yet by the early 1920s — years before cinema found its voice — 80% of m
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From Funeral Factory to Parisian Art Hope
PARIS — One of the newest cultural centers in Paris took over a cavernous funeral factory in 2008. Now established, it's still striving to bring contemporary practice into the city's art dialogue.
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Thoughts on Richard Serra in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar — This spring, Richard Serra has made his mark on the Arab Gulf in a characteristically big way. Several important pieces are currently on view in Qatar, two of them permanent installations commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA).
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Fred Tomaselli Talks Pot, Gardening, and the New York Times
"Wasn’t pot your gateway drug to gardening?" Lawrence Weschler asked Fred Tomaselli teasingly during their recent conversation for the New York Public Library’s Art and Literature Series.
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10 Artists to Watch from the 2014 Bushwick Open Studios
This year's Bushwick Open Studios were as sprawling and eventful as ever. After recovering from last weekend, we've taken some time to reflect and asked Hyperallergic editors and contributors to suggest a few artists, none of whom we've previously highlighted, to watch.
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Artists Still Not Getting Paid (But at Least We're Starting to Talk About It)
A campaign in the United Kingdom called Paying Artists released a report with a series of recommendations for getting artists paid, an urgency they claim based on their finding that "71% of artists exhibiting in publicly-funded galleries received no fee for their work."
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The Brute Classicism of Joel Perlman
It’s been over twenty years since we’ve seen Joel Perlman’s large-scale sculptures on exhibition in New York City. The size and weight of his mighty works in welded steel can be a challenge to show, but Loretta Howard Gallery has pulled out all the stops rigging in five new large-scale works (four i
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Bookbinding the Dead: Harvard Confirms 19th-Century Book Bound in Human Skin
After having deadly disappointment earlier this year when it was revealed two of the three books at Harvard University believed to be bound in human skin were both sheepskin, the third has been confirmed as being hominid-made.
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The Barbarous Beauty of Nancy Grossman's Little-Seen Early Work
Like Victor Frankenstein manipulating his monster from the scavenged remains of tossed-away corpses, artist Nancy Grossman started her career by building "machine-animal hybrids" from a tumult of salvaged metal, wood, and leather.