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The Secret Is Out! Amanda Lepore Joins Friday's The Lost Lectures in New York
Announcing the sixth and final speaker for Friday night's The Lost Lectures event in New York: Amanda Lepore!
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A Bilingual Globalism Between North and South America
BOSTON — Traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation's collection in Miami, Permission To be Global (Prácticas Globales) — the MFA's first exhibition of contemporary art from Latin America — calls attention to globalization within the institution's n
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The Delicate and Gruesome Art of Medieval Alabaster
The English Reformation of the 1530s wasn't just an upheaval of the country's spirituality as the Church of England severed its Catholic ties; it disrupted whole industries. One was the alabaster sculpture business of the Midlands.
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Annie Leibovitz, Wu-Tang Clan, and the Aura of Expensive Art
Photographer Annie Leibovitz's latest work of art is a book — a book that measures more than two feet high, runs to 476 pages, and comes with its own tripod, designed by Marc Newson.
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Art Rx
This is going to be one of Hyperallergic's biggest week's yet. Our large Lost Lectures event on Friday is going to feature a video program — which we announced yesterday — and a special guest — we plan to announce today.
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Members of Turkey's Art Community Speak Out Against Government
Turkey has long been known for its relatively liberal political system for the region, but over the past year the country has begun clamping down on free speech. Now, the video artist Ali Kazma, who represented the country at the 2013 Venice Biennale, has published an online protest statement titled
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Video Program for Lost Lectures Features Rico Gatson, Chelsea Knight, Serkan Özkaya, Zefrey Throwell, and Saya Woolfalk
This Friday's inaugural Lost Lectures event in New York will feature not only an impressive lineup of performers and speakers, but a video program that will play throughout the evening on a large screen.
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Making + Meaning: An Architecture Summer Program at SCI-Arc
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Pearl Paint Closes [UPDATED]
Pearl Paint, the downtown art-supplies staple on Canal Street, has shut down, Gothamist reported. We previously noted the structure's listing on April 10, though at that time closure seemed uncertain, with the real estate listing offering that the “the space can be delivered vacant.”
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Tom Sachs's Pointless Americana
PARIS — In a search for art that reacts to the inequalities of globalization, must art lose touch with the sort of grace that exceeds the hand, a grace that couldn’t be anything but artificial and technological?
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Your Graffiti "Looks Like Shit," a Historic Letter to Alicia McCarthy
The artists of the so-called Mission School, that indie-inspired band of DIY artists centered around the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) in the 1990s, are getting their moment in the New York sun with Grey Art Gallery's Energy That Is All Around exhibition.
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The Jewish Blues
LOS ANGELES — I first saw Saul Bellow in the early 1960s at a reading he gave one afternoon of his play “The Last Analysis.” The reading took place in a large, light-filled studio on the Upper West Side in New York, for an audience of invited guests.