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New eBook Turns Space into a Tonal Universe for the Visually Impaired
A new eBook is aiming to make that starscape engaging for everyone, including the visually impaired.
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On Saturday, 20 SoCal Museums Will Be Free
It's a Museums Free-For-All!
Art
Big and Bold in Albany
ALBANY, New York — The Albany Institute of History and Art, which has just renovated its largest gallery, is marking the occasion with Big and Bold, a showcase of large-scale contemporary works from its permanent collection
Art
Selfie Reflections
CHICAGO — There are selfies for every occasion, outfit, haircut, new pair of glasses, and reflective work of art, and then there are accidental selfies in Craigslist mirrors.
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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Today, Hyperallergic will be publishing on a holiday schedule in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the role of money in art, Magritte cartoons in the New Yorker, how we should write English, the magician of Vine, Ariel Sharon's architecture, bad corporate logos, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Track
This week came the announcement that the director of Dia Art Foundation, Philippe Vergne, has been named to replace Jeffrey Deitch as the director of the troubled Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Will this put the museum on the right track?
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (January 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Shinee, Disclosure, Boards of Canada, Chvrches, and the Pet Shop Boys.
Art
Weekend Studio Visit: Squeak Carnwath in Oakland, California
In July 2006, during a conversation we had in her studio, Squeak Carnwath made a series of statements that have stayed with me, beginning with: “I am a painting chauvinist.”
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Beer with a Painter: Tine Lundsfryd
To enter the studio of Tine Lundsfryd in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, you climb a dark, narrow staircase lined with paintings, into a light, open space: rooms for living, dining, and working. Each furnishing or decoration that has been allowed to remain in this very minimalist space is perfectly aesthetic,
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Single Point Perspective: Dead Man Rising
Viewing the WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY show currently at the Brooklyn Museum offers a test of emotional restraint as well as the inclination to aestheticize. If the number of images is daunting, the sum of human pain on display registers as a body blow.
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Undiscovered Territory: Will Horwitt's Objects in Space
In 1965, when Will Horwitt was 31, the world was opening up for him. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in sculpture, followed three years later by a Tiffany Purchase Grant. His work was beginning to attract the attention of heavyweight collectors and eventually it found its way into such major public c