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Art Rx
This week, three excellent film series are underway, plus YouTube wars, a talk, an opening, and a sound art experience.
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AA Bronson and Carlos Motta to Speak at Hyperallergic’s Wed Aug 21 ArtTalk
On Wednesday, August 21, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring artists AA Bronson and Carlos Motta at The Bedford in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The topic for that evening's discussion and conversation is "The Body, Spirit, Sex, Community, Magic, and the Other."
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Neon Visions at the End of Long Island
There was a time, before collectors, parties, fairs, and celebrities, when artists were drawn to the tranquility and beauty of the Hamptons, the sense of community that could be created there. One of those artists was Dan Flavin, who began spending his summers in Bridgehampton in 1972 and bought a h
Opinion
Why Fewer Arts Reviews Might Not Be So Bad
A few weeks ago, the news broke that British newspaper the Independent on Sunday was cutting its cultural critics. Not just visual art, mind you: theater, music, TV, etc. The paper would lose all of its professional critics, and the arts section, until then called "The Critics," would be renamed. Th
Opinion
Another Day, Another Dubious Mona Lisa Discovery
Professional art history charlatan Silvano Vinceti has narrowed down his quest for the Mona Lisa's definitely real body to one of three skeletons exhumed from Florence's Santissima Annunziata basilica, all of which are currently being tested at the University of Bologna, the Guardian reports. The jo
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This Is Not an Art Selfie
CHICAGO — Last week we looked at a few self-portraits by famous artists, classifying these as predecessors to the selfie. Now that anyone can take a photo of themselves and upload it to social media for an insta-audience, the notion of what's an arty smartphone self-portrait and what's "art" is up f
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The Rustic, Intricate Fantasy of Enrique Martínez Celaya
SANTA FE, New Mexico — This massive, intricate fantasy of high art and kitsch, hand-made things and found objects, snaps together tighter than an Ikea bookshelf.
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Art Is a Form of Self Torture
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Constructing Our Online Identities
"In the name of 'progress,' our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old," writes Marshall McLuhan in his zine/manifesto The Medium Is the Massage.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a chilling performance in Shanghai, the sale of the Washington Post, history of London coffeehouses, privacy and art, TED Talk as propaganda, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Sound
Yesterday, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, opened Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the museum's first major exhibition of sound art. But will it answer the question, "If a piece of art falls in the forest and no one hears it, is it still art?"
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The Inimitable and Influential Art of Catherine Murphy
I have been following Catherine Murphy since 1980, when I first saw her work at Xavier Fourcade. My interests are purely selfish: she is uncompromising in ways that I admire, which is to say she is not dogmatic. Always in hot pursuit of what she sees — subjects so commonplace and underfoot that othe