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Required Reading
This week, James Turrell explains why his work photographs badly, LA Times hates MOCA's new architecture show, Corbusier at MoMA, how much does Pandora pay artists, more on Amazon's art-selling business, Francesco Bonami hates Ai Weiwei and Banksy, and more …
Opinion
Weekend Words: Marriage
Declaring DOMA dead, (five out of nine members of) the Supreme Court also struck down Act 3, Scene 1 of Hamlet.
Art
The Unfashionably Late Modernism of Patrick Jones
DUBLIN — Patrick Jones, an English abstract artist now in his mid-60s, spent a considerable amount of time in America. After studying art in England, most notably at the Birmingham College of Art, he left to get his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. This was in the 1970s. While in Americ
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The Wondrous Story of Emery Blagdon’s Healing Machine
Why Blagdon’s “The Healing Machine” (c. 1950–86), which consists of more than 400 separate pieces — paintings on wood, boxes full of found materials, and intricate wire hangings — survived.
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (June 2013, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, After Dark 2, The National, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, and the Rough Guide to African Disco
Art
The New Casualists Strike Again
Two years ago, Sharon Butler came out with “Abstract Painting: The New Casualists,” an essay addressing the "studied, passive-aggressive incompleteness to much of the most interesting abstract work that painters are making today."
Art
Situationist Cycling Through LA's Nighttime Streets
LOS ANGELES — The City of Angels is famously opaque to the average visitor. Unlike New York, the vibe of Los Angeles doesn't reveal itself immediately after you step out of the subway. It doesn't even reveal itself after a few months.
Opinion
How to Get Lena Dunham, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Catherine Opie to Send You an Email
CHICAGO — Miranda July's new project We Think Alone blurs the lines between a public confession and a private thought, asking participants Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, Etgar Keret, Late and Laura Mulleavy, Catherine Opie Lee Smolin and Danh Vo to share emails with yo
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Play MoMA's Latest Video Game Acquisitions Online
MoMA announced several video game acquisitions this afternoon, marking the ongoing completion of the video game collection launched in November 2012. The new additions are: the Magnavox Odyssey console (1972), Pong (1972), Space Invaders (1978), Asteroids (1979), Tempest (1981), Yar’s Revenge (1982)
Poetry
Three Affinities by Nathan Hoks
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Nathan Hoks for the latest in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Interview
Ancient Greek Crotch Shots: Ingrid Berthon-Moine's Balls #NSFW
London-based photographer Ingrid Berthon-Moine has taken advantage of the anatomical accuracy of Ancient Greek art to focus her lens on a very specific part of the male anatomy for her latest series, Marbles.