Art
Living or Being Seen in Alex Prager’s Sun-Soaked Psyche
The sentiments of Bethany Cosentino from the band Best Coast float through my head whenever I view the artwork of Los Angeles–based photographer and filmmaker Alex Prager.
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Art
Palisades Preservation Becomes a National Issue
The preservation of a natural vista in New Jersey in the face of an intruding development is moving from a local to national concern. The Palisades, that stretch of cliffs and streets viewable from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters branch of medieval art, have been protected for decades fro
News
Eccentric Artists Make Good Art (or So We Think)
We all know the stereotype of artists being a little ... you know, different, but two researchers are now saying that if you're perceived as being eccentric, people will think you make better art.
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City Council Member Calls for Inquiry on Fiscal Improprieties at Queens Library
Queens Library Director Thomas Galante out-earns nearly all senior public officials in New York City, including the mayor and the head of the public transit system, the New York Daily News has reported.
Books
Gathering the Phantoms of Lost Art
Art history is very much a haunted field, with the specters of works obliterated, lost, hidden, or just vanished floating around it. Our visual culture is defined as much by destruction as it is by creation.
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New Jersey City University's New MFA for Integrated Media Arts Production
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Join Hyperallergic in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb 1, 6pm
Hyperallergic is in Los Angeles for the LA Art Book Fair and we've decided it's time to invite all our SoCal readers to an informal meetup at a bar in downtown LA: Tony's Saloon!
Art
Art Rx
This week, encounters among artists and with robots, openings in Bushwick, and screenings of Hitchcock's The Birds.
Opinion
Using New Media to Shed Light on Old Art Narratives
The internet is a visual space, where virality comes most frequently to media rich in images, whether videos, animated GIFs or simple memes. Connecting these new forms of media with all the classic ways that human beings have told visual stories is a powerful way to reanimate them, sometimes literal
Art
Reality at Two Removes: Alison Turnbull at the De La Warr Pavilion
BEXHILL-ON-SEA, England — Structural plans, both manmade and cosmic, are brought to light by the paintings of Alison Turnbull. The meticulous results are abstracted if not complete abstracts.
Art
Staying in Love on the Lower East Side
Making boldface generalities is of course a recipe for disaster, but for many artists the long hours and repetitive demands of making something by hand is part of the parcel.
Art
Revisiting a Time When You Could Look but Not Touch
CHICAGO — It was 1950, and the men were hot, greased up, and posing as if they were the original "David." Then they were photographed and choreographed by Chuck Renslow, who founded Kris Studios for male physique photography, at a time when gay male sexuality operated underground. Nearly 65 years la