Art
Consider two reds: a pure cadmium red medium — all fiery denseness — alongside a burnt sienna, equal in tone but utterly different in character: subdued, stoic, retiring. They jostle and shift, eager to separate. Plunk next to them a throng of blues, some deep and jewel-like, others brightly vacant.
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Now more than ever, it's fascinating to look at the images we have from the Red Planet, and it just so happens that NASA has a whole collection in 3D.
Hyperallergic
Whether you celebrate Epiphany, Three Kings Day, Armenian Christmas, Feast of Theophany, or Eastern Orthodox Christmas on January 6 or 7, we wish you a happy holiday!
Opinion
This week, where the fakes are, TED's coming disaster, Ai Weiwei speaks, drinks + politics, African art museum first, design bubble forming, King Tut's erect penis, and more.
Opinion
On New Year's Day, pot went legal in Colorado.
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — Wayne Thiebaud, whose exhibition Memory Mountains recently closed at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco, turns 94 this year. Consisting of nearly fifty paintings and drawings of mountains and mesas done between 1962 and 2013, this survey exhibition reveals another side of a p
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Against a backdrop of artistic, technological, political and social developments, the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) in Baltimore is presenting Human, Soul & Machine: The Coming Singularity! Timely and full of surprises, it is an exhibition that exudes a sense of urgency unlike that of many ot
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Coverage of the visual arts in the New York Times hit a new low last weekend in its Arts & Leisure feature, “The Disrupters,” a roundup of interviews with “people who broke the rules” during 2013, “a year of cultural upheaval.”
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Asia Society's Iran Modern is a must-see exploration of a period little known in the West but infinitely interesting for its non-Western responses to modernity, its embrace of the developing world, the prevalence of prominent female artists at a time when the same wasn't true most elsewhere, and its
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Many neighborhoods of stately row houses that rose along the East Coast late in the 19th century have declined into decay, or been torn down entirely. Yet sometimes there's one solitary holdout standing tall and proud, its neighbors long since demolished.
Art
On New Year’s Eve I found myself ringing in 2014 at Outlet gallery in Bushwick, watching Miao Jiaxin’s performance piece “News." It was a fitting choice: "News" elicits a hollow catharsis not unlike a New Year’s Day hangover.
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Recession Art, the nearly five-year-old organization devoted to showcasing emerging artists and affordable art, is shutting down its gallery next week. The project will continue to exist online, but Recession's physical space will close and it will not mount any more exhibitions.