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Images from the Third Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival #NSFW
The third week of Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) was a giant celebration of such diverse styles that it was often hard to believe that it was all unified under the category of performance art.
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The Infantile World of Paul McCarthy
The Seventh Regiment Armory, constructed at the end of the 19th century, was and remains the only such military structure funded by private monies, a final excess of the Gilded Age. It's easy to read an obscene vulgarity into the opulence of its architecture, though we are reminded that it was meant
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Whatever Happened to the Met's Jade Room?
The jade collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was once showcased in an opulent room in the style of Louis XV, with fifteen delicate glass cases presided over by a chandelier. But it's vanished as if it were never there.
Opinion
How to Buy Your Way to the Front Page of the NY Times
In a sensational front page story, today's New York Times announces what the art world has long known: "Qatari Riches Are Buying Art World Influence." Yes, the Qataris — and other Gulf monarchs — are rapidly amassing a motherlode of contemporary art, and in the process likely driving up art prices w
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Pre-Raphaelites With Guns
When Italian revolutionaries made an assassination attempt on Napoleon III in 1858, and it turned out that they'd been refugees in Great Britain, the British looked at their outnumbered army and rightly wondered if they should beef up their forces in comparison to the enraged French. One of these vo
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Burning Suburbia With Paint and Flames
The American suburbs are already surreal places, perfectly planned roads dotted with identical homes infinitely replicated across the country. In his two-year Suburban project, Australian artist Ian Strange radically transformed these places into something even more otherworldly with paint and flame
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Antiquities and Idiosyncrasies in 18th-Century Britain
The stately facade of Sir John Soane’s Museum sits on the northwest side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, a square, grassy park filled with young Londoners throwing frisbees, drinking beer, and flirting. The interior of the museum, at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, is a strikingly different environment, a purpose
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Art Rx
This week, New York is fabulous and eclectic as always. There's public art at City Hall, South Korean film at Socrates Sculpture Park, an animation block party all over Brooklyn, and the end of two summertime series.
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Bodies Left Behind
CHICAGO — There’s always some sort of surprise awaiting you in the basement. Consent is not necessary here; you are allowed to freely descend the stairs of Woman Made Gallery, where two solo exhibitions by Brenna Conley-Fonda and Robin Hustle await. Both of these artists implicate their bodies and b
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Gender Gap Remains Pervasive in Academia
Gender browser provides a "multiscale view of gender representation across multiple domains of scholarly publishing." The picture ain't pretty.
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Validating Me and Myselfie
CHICAGO — This week's selfie series is curated entirely from submissions that you, dear internet reader, sent to me through the selfies [at] hyperallergic [dot] com email address. I was wondering if you'd accept the challenge to write, and indeed, you did. Thank you. You are fearless.