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Guggenheim Foundation gets sued, artists return to LA MOCA's board, gallery expansions, the world's biggest collaborative mural, and more from the week in art news.
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How to Talk About Oscar Murillo
I know what you're thinking. There can't be a 'how to talk about Oscar Murillo' because we don't have a decade or so of commentary, he's too new to have talking points. He's 28 for God's sake, you protest.
Art
A Cape-Wearing Futuristic Architect Gets a Documentary
Sporting purple sequins and proposing buildings with moveable dragon fly wings, Eugene Tssui wants to redefine the way we live through an "evolutionary architecture."
Art
Living in a Post-Private World
What if we were more aware of the thoughts and exchanges that we're unwittingly making public? That's the intention of neverhitsend, a 12-person LA-based arts and technology collective that formed in 2013, post–Snowden leaks, to discuss issues of digital communications today.
Books
Testifying on the Walls: A Street Artist's Urban Love Letters
Meticulously painted like old advertising signs but conveying the kind of telegraphed poetry you might find scrawled on a bathroom wall, Stephen Powers's murals have been lodged into the street dialogue of cities from New York to Philadelphia to Belfast. A new book brings together the narrative of h
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What Makes an Artist an Artist?
The question of who, exactly, is an artist — what that word means, who defines herself by it — has always been a tricky one. All sorts of surveys define "artist" in their own way and then move on with results, but a new study in the journal Poetics takes up the root question itself.
Art
Darkroom Developer Trays as Portraits of the Artists
Disposable and deteriorated, the developer trays used by photographers are usually discarded.
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Support Friends In Deed's Photographers for Friends 2014 Benefit & Auction
Hyperallergic is a proud media sponsor of this year's Photographers for Friends 2014 Benefit and Auction on March 25 at the Dream Downtown in New York City, with co-chairs Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper.
Opinion
My Gold-Surfaced Cappuccino
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Silence is gold.
Art
The Redemption of Ron Athey
LOS ANGELES — Twenty years after performing at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Ron Athey has come a long way from art world pariah to celebrated performance artist.
Comics
The Art of Maple Syrup
I helped our neighbors make maple syrup last week, which got me thinking …
Art
Auteurs Go Wild
That protean, motley preoccupation sometimes called film theory has shown many faces over the years. But before today’s engagements with the medium’s correspondence with digital technologies and television, there was auteur theory.