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Ancient Mayan Temple Destroyed in Belize
The shocking destruction of a Mayan archeological site that dates back to at least 2,300 years is raising serious questions about the safety of Belize's cultural heritage and archeological sites.
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On Being an Artist and a Mother
CHICAGO — What does it mean, bodily, physically, emotionally, mentally, and perhaps spiritually, to be what Simone de Beauvoir deemed "the second sex," to be a woman and, moreover, to be a mother? These are questions that Chelsea Knight explores in her latest video work "The Breath We Took" (2013),
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The ArtPrize is Calling: Artist Applications Open Through June 6
ArtPrize [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJhdiI6MzkzMiwiYXQiOjIwLCJjbSI6MzMyNzEsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6ODQzMDEsImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6MTE3NDI0LCJmbCI6NTcxOTUsIm53IjoyMDcsInJ2IjowLCJwciI6MTY2NSwic3QiOjAsInVyIjoiaHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcnRwcml6ZS5vcmcvIiwicmUiOjF9&s=k7h7_3ghfqTsrSeMeedeb4DEkLc] isn’t your typical art co
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The NEA Four Revisited: On Arts Funding
The NEA Four, now in residence at the New Museum, were denied National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants in 1990, after Congress passed a "decency clause." How has arts funding changed in the past 20 years? Its current state would certainly "disabuse just about anyone of the idea that pursuing an
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Art Rx
Now that the fairs are (finally) over, there's a good chance you have an art hangover. The doctor prescribes a host of events about as far from art fairs are you can get.
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Rare Postcards Reveal Early 20th Century Panoramas
The United States Postal Service was just expanding into widespread delivery to the remote corners of the country when panoramic postcards appeared to advertise in wide frame the beauty of these far-flung locales. Usually folding for more compact delivery, these broad little views offered expansive
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Visit Hyperallergic HQ During WalkaboutNYC
We'd like to cordially invite you to our office Friday, May 17th to celebrate the Tech Edition of WalkAboutNYC.
Opinion
Frieze Art Fair Is a Search Engine ... Or Something
Here at Hyperallergic, we're big fans of The Art Newspaper, but we can't stop snickering at this Frieze New York Daily story about the blue-chip art fair (which ends today) being like "a search engine for art." That is, in fact, the title of the article.
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The Death of Context at NADA New York
With the permanent invasion of art fairs into the art world economy like a plague, most galleries, no matter how cutting-edge or avant-garde, seem to believe (whether from actual or perceived necessity) that they must participate in all of the increasingly frequent art fair seasons. This endless str
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NADA's New Grown-Up Look
This year's New York incarnation of the NADA art fair suggested that the gathering of young emerging galleries often characterized as the minor leagues of Frieze and other "major league" art fairs has grown up quite a bit. Yet with maturity comes a tendency towards conservatism, and that was reflect
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Balloon Dog Over NYC
Artists and their toys … er, we mean egos … er, we mean …
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Poetry and Italian on the Streets of the East Village
New York bristles with energy, and what makes it continually captivating for me is that this spirit comes so much from the people and acts of creation that can be just stumbled upon in the street. Last week in the East Village, at the corner of First Avenue and 7th Street, I saw an enthusiastic crow