Art
Will an Auction Help Convince People There's a Market for New Media Art?
A digital art auction is seeking to bring the art and tech communities closer together, and it may help forge a market for digital art in the process.
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In Their Own Words: Forest Houses Residents Consider the Gramsci Monument
With the help of local residents, Thomas Hirschhorn built a public artwork called the Gramsci Monument in the Forest Houses in the Bronx this past summer. Hyperallergic contributor Arianne Wack visited just before it came down to talk to residents about their experiences with the project.
Opinion
The Perils of Public Sculpture in Qatar
Statues: like many things that exist in the world, people sometimes have idiotic opinions about them. Mute and immobile, they are the helpless victims of sad little moralists of all stripes, from Kansas to Qatar.
Comics
Finding Inspiration in Anything
When the world gives you lemons …
News
Five Issues Threatening the Destruction of Cultural Heritage Sites
Yesterday, the World Monuments Fund announced their 2014 World Monuments Watch, launching a two-year advocacy for 67 sites in 41 countries.
Opinion
Want to Be an Artist? Try a Little Narcissism
A new study has found that narcissistic people are more likely to consider themselves creative and do creative things than their non-narcissistic counterparts. Um ... we needed a study to tell us that?
Art
A Performance Artist's Grotesque Femininity
My memory finally caught up with the ephemera of a familiar artist when I went to go see Katya Grokhovsky’s show Bodybeautiful at Galerie Protégé.
Art
Nevermore? Poe Museum Turns to Kickstarter to Preserve Raven Illustrations
Many artists have been drawn to the macabre, dolorous work of Edgar Allen Poe — Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Édouard Manet, Gustave Doré.
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Banksy's Latest Pops Up in Greenpoint, Get$ Covered Up Fa$t
Banksy hasn't been wow'ing street art fans in New York, though he (I'm going to assume it is a "he") is creating a lot of excitement around street art, which is a good thing.
Art
A New York Apocalypse, Hidden in Plain Sight
On the Portal of Paradise on the western façade of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan are sculptures of the end of modern New York. The Brooklyn Bridge is breaking in two, a bus plummeting from it into the water while waves rise up over the toppling skyline. People run in a panic belo
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Starting Next Year, LA's Hammer Museum Will Be Free
A few weeks ago, billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad announced that his upcoming museum in Los Angeles, The Broad, will offer free admission. Earlier this year, the Dallas Museum of Art switched over to free entry, as well as offering a new free membership plan. And now, continuin
Art
The Medium Is the Poem: Micropoetry on Twitter
OAKLAND, Calif. — A few weeks ago, I wrote about Heyku, a new app that takes an Instagram approach to poetry. One of our readers, Luke Agbaimoni, wrote in about his site, micropoetry.com, which features some of the existing practices of poets online.