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OAKLAND, Calif. — Earlier this year, there was a kerfluffle on the internet when users voted to oust the iron token in Monopoly in favor of a cat. It was a significant change to the aesthetics of the game — the iron had been around since the 1930s — but not a significant change to its gameplay.
Art
In the Albanian city of Gjirokastër, nothing strikes quite so hard as the armaments museum, hidden away inside a medieval castle atop a hill.
Art
For this year's Critical Halloween, Hyperallergic and Storefront for Art and Architecture are hosting an online competition to award the "People's Choice" for best costume. This year's theme was "Corporate AvantGarde". You can vote for as many costumes as you'd like, but voting ends Thursday, Novemb
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Artist studios in Germany, North Carolina, and New York.
News
Nouvel MoMA tower finally on the rise, Arthur Danto passes away, Henry Moore statue still in London dispute, Alexander Calder estate in court battle, and more.
Art
The Museum of Modern Art's first foray into a group exhibition of sound art, Soundings: A Contemporary Score succeeds in delivering a heterogenous — if uneven — perspective on a challenging medium.
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Orchard Beach in the Bronx doesn't exactly have the best reputation. While the 1.1 mile stretch of beach, formed from landfill and sand shipped in via barges, was declared "The Riviera of New York" when it opened in the 1930s under the direction of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, its profile has si
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For a performance in a Manhattan JP Morgan Chase bank, where they made an environmental statement dressed as extinct amphibians, Reverend Billy and the music director of his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, Neremiah Luckett, are facing a year in prison and $30,000 bail.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Steve Jobs knew this well: there's something magical about technology. Turn on a phone or a computer, and you can access not just information but people and communities with a few clicks and taps.
Performance
There’s a moment in your first life-drawing class where your perception shifts and you start looking at the naked body in front of you differently. At least that was my experience. Instead of feeling uncomfortable with the nudity or paying attention to judgments and assumptions about the person in f
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The museum has quietly gone and changed its photo policy.
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A packed house received Lucy Lippard for a wry lecture about her life as an arts writer at the New School on Wednesday, October 30. Staff from the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, which co-sponsored the event, stood leaning against the wall. Students sat on the floor.