Art
London Goes (Back to) Pop
LONDON — Pop Art was born in the UK, not in the US. We all probably know that, even if we tend to forget it, dazzled by decades spent worshipping Andy Warhol.
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NEA Captures Data on Artists with Day Jobs
Not long ago we wrote about a study that took up the question of who is an artist, examining some of the ways in which defining creative workers is difficult. On Monday the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) added to the conversation by releasing a new data set called "Keeping My Day Job: Identif
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Pratt Institute MFA Open Studios and Alumni Events, Friday April 4
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A New Digital Platform for Science in Museums
A new online journal is aspiring to create a dialogue among museum professionals and the public on science and museums in the 21st century.
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Getting to Know Milton Glaser, the Godfather of Modern Design
The east-facing windows of Milton Glaser’s studio on 32nd Street overlook a school playground. Every day at 2:35 pm, a deluge of rowdy grade-schoolers surges into the courtyard as their parents float and mingle along the perimeter. Yellow buses queue up dutifully between the parked cars that line bo
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Watching Your Digital Self Perform with Glass Ghost
After money, space is often the tallest hurdle for artists in New York. Performance Space 122's RAMP is a new residency program offering emerging New York City-based artists a performance venue to develop a piece with supporting tech assistance and premiere it to an audience.
Opinion
A Google Earth Perspective on Land Art
Earlier today @museumnerd tweeted out a link to a view of Michael Heizer's land work "Double Negative" (1969) in Google Maps. Viewed in satellite, from high above, Heizer's 1,500-foot-long trenches looks almost incidental, like cuts made with scissors into the skin of the earth.
Art
New York Public Library Puts Major Dance Video Archive Online
The New York Public Library recently digitized thousands of hours of its videos in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Moving Image Archive, from grainy historic footage to contemporary productions along with preservations of culture.
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BuzzFeed Acquires Hyperallergic, Critical Pivot for Future of Art Blogs
OMG, we have exciting news today: Hyperallergic has been acquired by bleeding-edge media company BuzzFeed for an undisclosed amount.
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Tate Doesn't Want to Disclose Details of BP Sponsorship
The Tate yesterday filed an appeal to a court order that would have required the museum to release internal documents relating to its controversial sponsorship deal with British Petroleum (BP), Hyperallergic has learned.
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Austrian Businessman Asks Government to Buy His Art Collection
The Austrian government is considering buying one of the country's best-known private art collections in a bid to help save its owner's company. Collector and businessman Karlheinz Essl has appealed to the Austrian minister of culture to purchase his 7,000-piece art collection, the Guardian reported
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Make the Metropolitan Museum Your Studio with New Adult Workshops
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