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Contract Workers at Smithsonian Protest Low Wages
Some 50 food service workers at the Smithsonian museums went on strike yesterday, in protest of their less-than-livable wages, but the institution tried to spin the story.
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Join Hyperallergic & Art Southampton for a Summer Hamptons Getaway
Well before Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl made their indelible mark there, the East End of Long Island has loomed large in 20th century American art history. Jackson Pollock decamped from the city to East Hampton when he married Lee Krasner in 1945, establishing a modest home and studio with a loa
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Art Movements
New plans for the development of 5 Pointz, new funds for Queens museums, the settlement of the National Arts club lawsuit, the demolition of an ancient pyramid in Peru, and more.
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To Err Is Human, to Appropriate Divine
CHICAGO — To steal, to remake, to remix, and to appropriate are all part of being a creative human being. We are inspired and influenced by the works of art we encounter. Imitation is arguably the best form of flattery, and thanks to the internet we can obtain images a whole lot easier. Copyrights b
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10 Street Artists Remix Contemporary Book Covers
Penguin UK has released ten editions of ten contemporary classics with covers all commissioned from street artists, using photographs documenting the literary-inspired work.
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#withoutwords: The Existential and Profound in Syria's Emerging Art Scene
LONDON — News from Syria suggests the pen, the paintbrush, the camera, and even needle and thread may be mightier than the sword after all. For what other reason would the government have broken the hands of a political cartoonist. But the fully recovered cartoonist, Ali Ferzat, is back at his desk,
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A Beautiful New Look for NYC's Beaches
Pentagram designer Paula Scher has created a beautiful new program of design for NYC's 14 miles of beaches that presents an optimistic, clean, and attractive vision of what urban beaches should be.
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Redesigning Death
For the amount of time that people have been dying, which is quite long really, our designs for death haven't changed as much as our designs for everything else.
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California's Triumphant Triennial
LOS ANGELES — In a world where art seems to consist primarily of hyper-conceptual art school verbiage, it’s a relief to go to a museum show and actually have something to see. The California-Pacific Triennial, now on view at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, Calif., definitely offers
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Celebrities Failing at Art
With fame and fortune you can do just about anything, but maybe you shouldn't. Yet that hasn't stopped celebrities from trying their hands at contemporary art
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A Fusion of Facebook, Advertising, and Design Redefines the Creepy Birthday Hug
In what can be optimistically described as a case of something lost in cultural translation, Brazil's Outback Steakhouse franchise had their American-owned ad agency design an anthropomorphized chair that "hugs" you when you are wished a happy birthday via Facebook. Yes, This is The Way We Live Toda
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, Florida, New York, Ohio, and Ontario.