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When Color Becomes Sound (and Vice Versa)
CHICAGO — A recent collaboration in Chicago between visual artists and composers, called Ten x Ten, explored the most common form of synesthesia, which seems to be the relation between colors and sounds.
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Detroit Creditors File in Court to Push for DIA Art Sale
In a legal filing today first reported in the Detroit Free Press, a consortium of Detroit creditors aggressively make their case for the sale of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection. The document, dated November 26, charges that emergency manager Kevyn Orr has been insufficiently transparent ab
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Nazi-Era Munich Trove Includes 39 Toulouse-Lautrec Works
Among the 1,406 artworks discovered throughout the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt are 39 pieces by French painter and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The works are all drawings and prints.
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Your Essential Guide to the 2013 Miami Art Fairs
It's that time of year again, when the art world industry convenes for their annual pilgrimage to Miami for art, parties, and gossip (December 1–8, 2013). Hyperallergic will be flying down for the weeklong festivities and we've prepared a guide to what you should check out if you're in the area.
Opinion
See All of Frida Kahlo's Paintings, Made by Anonymous Chinese Artists
"Largest Exhibition of the Life and Art of Frida Kahlo Makes U.S. Premiere in San Diego," the press release announces. On its website, the show bills itself as "the only exhibition worldwide where Frida Kahlo's paintings can be seen in one place." But in reality, The Complete Frida Kahlo: Her Painti
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Balthus's Androgynous Dreams
When we talk about Balthus what we talk about are perversities: a grown man painting erotically charged portraits of Lolita-like young girls with their skirts flapped up like flowers.
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Join Hyperallergic Friday, December 6, for Evening Cocktails at Aqua Art Miami
On Friday, December 6, from 6 to 8 pm, we invite you to join us at Aqua Art Miami (1530 Collins Avenue, South Beach, FL) for evening cocktails and music.
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Memories of China: Yang Fudong's Nostalgic Disillusionment
BERKELEY, Calif. — Yang Fudong is known to chronicle contemporary China’s affluent and disaffected urban youth in atmospheric works that evoke Shanghai cinema of the 1930s golden age.
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Art Rx
Museums are great for holiday weekends, especially ones a little more off the beaten track than, say, the Met or MoMA. If that sounds too mainstream for you ... well, there are always North Korean propaganda films. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Surrealism's Fistfights and Adversarial Culture
An evening Dada revue organized by Tristan Tzara, July 6, 1923's Soirée du Coeur à Barbe (Night of the Bearded Heart) was the site of an infamous altercation between Tzara's associates and Surrealist don André Breton at the Théâtre Michel in Paris.
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How Artists Can Take Advantage of Holiday Spending
'Tis the season to … sell …
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Crows in the Dining Room and Other Messy Histories
In three of the period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum, something is amiss.