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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.
Art
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
Art
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
Comics
Balloon Dog Over NYC
Artists and their toys … er, we mean egos … er, we mean …
Art
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
News
Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City Art World Stronghold, To Close
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For more than 20 years, John O'Brien's Dolphin Gallery has been a cultural and community epicenter for Kansas City artists. Located in a huge white wall space in the West Bottoms, a historical area in downtown Kansas City, the Dolphin is the size of a barn, and embodies the charis
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, photographs and videos galore on Required Reading, including the most iconic image to emerge from the industrial disaster in Dhaka, prison photographs for sale as art, Chris Ware's lesbian Mother's Day cover, Kim Kardashian's Met ball fail, Cooper Union's fatal error, Gavin Brown on why f
Opinion
Weekend Words: Bees
It's pollen season, big time, and Weekend Words turns its attention back to bees.
Books
“There can be no immigrants in utopia”: On “Haute Surveillance” by Johannes Göransson
Before we settle into our plush, faux-velvet seats, share bags of popcorn and watch the latest film about zombies who managed to escape from Pittsburgh and its parking lots, does anyone out there dream of making a movie about Jeffrey Dahmer starring Brad Pitt or James Franco?
Books
Manly Men and Their Discontents: Ben Jones's Men's Group: The Video
“Multiple paper sizes and stocks bound together with a spiral wire and wrapped between thick chipboard covers.” So reads the highly utilitarian description of Ben Jones’ new book in its accompanying press release, but it’s also as good a definition of the different incarnations of “manliness”—the pu
Poetry
Scrambled Sonnets, Prosthetic Limbs, and Little Bitter Teeth: Notes on Some Recent Poetry Publications
Ezra Pound said poetry was news that stays news. I thought that in gathering some notes on poetry I’ve read this year I’d bring a bit of news and only after doing so realized to what extent those notes would indicate how today’s poetry can be entwined with medieval Moorish Spain or fourteenth centur