Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (March 2014, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Toni Braxton & Babyface, Foster the People, Schoolboy Q, and Real Estate.
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Gary Stephan Talks to Rene Magritte and Kazimir Malevich
On the face of it, Gary Stephan’s paintings seem straightforward and austere. Done in acrylic, their viscosities of paint, range from striated, semi-transparent brushstrokes laid down with the same consistency as they span the canvas, to watery, semi-transparent irregular shapes, to solid geometric
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Protesters Rain Down Thousands of Bills in Guggenheim Rotunda
At 6:45 pm ET yesterday evening, a handheld bell sounded in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, signaling the second protest action in as many months from the Global Ultra Luxury Faction, or G.U.L.F.
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Poliakoff and the Russian Connection
The retrospective of Russian-born painter Serge Poliakoff, which just closed at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, was both a welcome surprise and something of an anachronism. One would be hard pressed to find clues in the current international art scene, or even in the secondary market,
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Andreas Slominski’s Wonderfully Ugly Handbags
Andreas Slominski’s exhibition at Metro Pictures, which closes today, is the perfect riposte to those enthralled with the expensive baubles of Jeff Koons, or with designer fashions, reality TV, and the gaseous personalities populating these self-inflated, narcissistic times.
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Connecting Across Time: Piero at the Met
This is the last weekend to catch Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a selection of four devotional pictures never before seen in the United States.
Opinion
Emojis May Be Going Multiculti, but What About Art?
Here at Hyperallergic, we've discussed — and griped about — the limited menu of emoji on smartphones but now there's word that Apple may expand the usual emoji suspects with more racial diversity to reflect a more inclusive reality. But can I suggest a few others?
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A Poem-Length Glitchy Game about the Loss of Memory
In Alz, you wander as a blank-faced man through a landscape of trees and skyscrapers that stutter and glitch as a strange black box follows. It's an incredibly short experience, a poem-length immersion in the world of someone caught in the confusion of memory loss.
Opinion
An Artist's Narco-Namaste Yoga Mat
Nothing says yoga quite like a mat that looks like a $100 bill with a razor blade, broken mirror, and lines of cocaine on it.
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Connecticut Museum Acquires Rare Artemisia Gentileschi Self-Portrait
The Wadsworth Atheneum has acquired a significant self portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi, "Self-Portrait as a Lute Player" (c. 1616–18).
Art
A Teacher's Guide to the Last Brucennial
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's Brucennial has excited and divided the art world for the past 10 years. On the occasion of the fifth and final Brucennial, and inspired by the open classrooms of the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, we offer you a teacher-student discussion guide to the e
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Art Movements
Gurlitt will restitute some art, Perry Rubenstein files for bankruptcy, India asks for sculpture repatriation, a new Astoria arts district, and more from the week in art news.