Art
Spectacle excels at making the most of whatever its members put their eclectic, seemingly tireless minds to. Seven days a week the volunteer-made, volunteer-run, 30-seat screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hustles out a menagerie of films — rare, radical, forgotten, misbegotten, offbeat, and
Art
"There are so many sounds in museums that we usually ignore that are absolutely engrossing once you take the time to focus on them," says artist John Kannenberg, who's been recording museum noise for 15 years.
Film
Very few figures in fashion have embodied the archetype of the talented and tortured artist like Yves Saint Laurent.
Art
OMAHA — Both teaching and social practice ask a leader (artist, teacher, organizer) to codify and articulate a set of steps that are then acted out by a group. There’s a place for uncertainty, but it should be strategically applied: by choice, not default.
In Brief
NY YIMBY recently got a set of renderings of the structure that will take over 5Pointz’s burial ground at 22-44 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens.
In Brief
Starting September 3, the Brooklyn Museum will be free for visitors under 20.
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On Thursday, August 7, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring the Yams Collective — aka HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? — at their studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
In Brief
Good news: the Marina Abramović Institute is hiring! Bad news: all four positions listed in this fresh New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) ad are unpaid — ahem, volunteer. They're probably great "opportunities," though, right?
In Brief
The chief of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art told a philanthropist that absorbing the failing Corcoran would make "his collection at the National Gallery ... greater than the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
Comics
All the animals are doing it.
Art
SANTA FE — At this point it's hard to keep track of which type of art event there are more of: art fairs or biennials. There are art fairs that look like biennials, biennials that look like art fairs, triennials, pop-ups, and everything in between. But the trope of the biennial has long been a fixtu
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PARIS — The City of Light is rightly recognized as an interesting place for street art, especially in the Right Bank's scruffier neighborhoods, where I am used to seeing plenty of it.