Art
LOS ANGELES — The Do ArT Foundation of L.A. teamed up with Montreal’s Mouvement Art Public (Make Art Public) this summer to … do make art public. By recuperating unsold advertising space on bus benches around downtown L.A., the organizations brought the work of two photographers to the streets.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden fires research staff, racy painting of Putin and Medvedev seized, more paintings from the studio of G.W. Bush, ancient Libyan necropolis bulldozed, and more...
Art
It's hard to preserve those things that are not places or objects, but rather traditions, festivals, ceremonies, or specialized art. For that there is the UNESCO's Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which includes things as disparate as falconry, oral stories, puppetry, and tightrope walking.
Opinion
CHICAGO — Jill Peters' photo series Sworn Virgins of Albania went viral last week. For the fascinating and honest portrayal of women who live their lives as men, the artist visited the mountain villages of northern Albania where she shot burneshas, or "women who have lived their lives as men for rea
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The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is getting onboard with digital acquisitions, this week announcing their first code addition to their collection.
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Hyperallergic is giving you the chance to win your own copy of Art That Changed the World! One winner will receive a $250 gift card to Dick Blick Art Materials, plus a copy of Art That Changed the World. Ten runner-up winners will also receive a copy of Art That Changed the World.
Art
A sampling of the over 2,000 artworks that are part of the NASA Art Program were recently uploaded to NASA's Flickrstream, and give an insight into the breadth of work that has come out of this rare merger between a government agency and art.
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LONDON — At least 40 laborers were hospitalized and 25 arrested on Tuesday evening after a violent brawl erupted between workers on Saadiyat Island, in an eruption allegedly provoked by the deportation of strikers and the hiring of "scab" workers in the aftermath of a strike affecting thousands of l
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The horror of what your brain can do when you give it up to sleep is universal, yet the heyday of the nightmare in art seems to have passed.
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Artist studios in Australia, Illinois, Nebraska, New York, and Virginia.
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In a statement released earlier this week, New York City Council members Stephen Levin and Jimmy Van Bramer announced their proposal for a referendum to improve cultural spending, a "bill requiring the city to have a cultural plan." By carrying out extensive assessments throughout the five boroughs,
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will sell one of its two oil paintings by artist Edward Hopper and use the money raised to increase acquisitions, particularly of contemporary art.