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Art Rx

It's a big week coming up, with the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Halloween, and Performa.

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3 Critics Pick Their Favorites at Bushwick's Beat Nite

We asked three Hyperallergic editors to offer their picks of the best in the neighborhood's art galleries.

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Mental Health and Healing Through the Lens of Taiwan's History

OAKLAND, Calif. — As the economy steadily improves around the world, there remains a long tail of after-effects, from homes lost to the housing bubble to increased debt burdens families may have had to assume during the worse parts of the recession. Less discussed are the mental health effects.

Interview

New Small Press Seeks Big Old Letterpress

CHICAGO — Reports of print's death have been greatly exaggerated. Outpost Magazine is one testament to this; another is Meekling Press, a very small Chicago-based book press that is committed to creating small editions of hand-bound books, as well as paperback editions.

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Painting and Philosophy: An Assessment

SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE, France — The very idea of philosopher as art curator deeply interests me. One swiftly dreams of what Gilles Deleuze might have done with the opportunity to curate an art exhibition at MoMA: Art and Alloverness perhaps? Or Michel Foucault: the New Panopticons at the Centre George

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A Bag Lady by Any Other Name

There are many dystopian futures out there. Mary Mattingly’s, recently on view at Robert Mann Gallery, is oddly disjunctive, containing the requisite pessimism imbued with occasional broad strokes of optimism.

News

Coney Island's Banksy Robot, Busy Weekend in Brooklyn [UPDATE 2]

What a weekend. After Friday night's unveiling of Banksy's new "Reaper" animatronics art performance on Houston Street, two text-based pieces appeared the following days in Brooklyn, and — surprisingly — they were largely left alone by taggers and haters, while today's stencil piece of a spray-can-w

Comics

What Do You Expect from Your Art?

You can't always guarantee how people see things.

Interview

A Skate Park as Neighborhood Stabilization in Detroit

CHICAGO — An artist-run non-profit organization, Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope's Power House Productions works to develop and implement neighborhood stabilization strategies in Detroit, a city where property is cheap and the stakes are high.

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Radically Rethinking the Architecture of Death

What happens when you die? Well, in a literal way, what happens to everyone else. You're likely to have a traditional, costly, funeral, and then a small slot of land in a quiet sprawl of cemetery will be yours.

Opinion

Required Reading

This week, Banksy hates the new Freedom Tower, North Korean visions of China, Turkey's ban on the letter "q" is over, Byzantine in DC, a black art show that marginalizes black artists, and more.

Opinion

Weekend Words: Dangerous

This week, danger!