Art
What Should the Lifespan of Art Be, and Who Decides?
A topic in art conservation that's often overlooked is: when do we stop preserving an object?
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Poetry
Flagelliform #21: Exile (“To be sure, hot water kills a man, But cold water too kills a man.”) by Shane Book
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Shane Book for his eighth in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
What a Teenager's Backpack Tells Us About Art
CHICAGO — Amanda Ross-Ho recreated a soft-sculpture replica of an anonymous teen-girl's backpack, blowing it up to 400% of its original size.
Comics
Graduation Anxiety
No, glitter is never the answer. But street art is probably one pretty good answer.
Art
Score! A Game of Hollow Victory Feeds Our Need for Reward
As an art game playing off our constant need for reward, Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise propels you into surreal scenarios of strutting through a landscape of explosions unharmed, collecting endless coins, and jumping inhumanly high into a digital infinity.
Art
Melbourne's Selfie Mecca
MELBOURNE, Australia — Cycling around the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, I noticed a small shop entirely covered in photographs: the shop-front, the door, the lintel, everything. I stopped. Was it the work of someone with an obsessive-compulsive disorder? Was it some kind of art installation? When I
Art
Contemporary Art's Unease with Faith
MILTON KEYNES, UK — Art, which has been called a religion, has a serious problem with faith. Genocides may come and go leaving the beliefs of many intact, but contemporary art is a sensitive flower — in many ways it is still getting over World War One.
News
Brooklyn Councilmember Levin's Art Agenda
In a recent announcement, New York City Councilmember Stephen Levin “signed on” to One Percent for Culture, an initiative of the Fund for the City of New York. Reached by phone yesterday afternoon, Councilmember Stephen Levin told Hyperallergic, “The arts are an important part of the fabric of New Y
Announcement
Klein Artist Works Helps Artists Take Control of Their Career
Klein Artist Works [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJhdiI6MjU5MzIsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjM1OTMyLCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY3IiOjg5MDY1LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjEyMzY0MSwiZmwiOjU5ODU5LCJudyI6MjA3LCJydiI6MCwicHIiOjE2NjUsInN0IjowLCJ1ciI6Imh0dHA6Ly9rbGVpbmFydGlzdHdvcmtzLmNvbS8iLCJyZSI6MX0&s=q19v7qQw9A41oyjAKogiRGH28Yk] is a 12-
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NYC Culture Shed, a Permanent Space for Temporary Events
The possible future site of New York Fashion Week and hundreds of other arts and culture events resembles a futuristic, moving building more than a Barclays Center for the arts. The so-called Culture Shed, a structure slated to be part of the Hudson Yards development, will occupy West 30th Street be
Art
From Ruin to Re-creation: Theaster Gates Returns to Chicago
CHICAGO — Theaster Gates’s installation 13th Ballad at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) continues his investigation of art objects and social activism, which started in 2009 with the redevelopment of derelict houses in a South Chicago neighborhood, and which he took to a national stage a
Art
A Parisian Retrospective on Marcel Breuer's Manhattan Vision
PARIS — "What should a museum look like, a museum in Manhattan?" architect Marcel Breuer asked in explaining his design for the Whitney Museum of American Art. "Surely it should work, it should fulfill its requirements, but what is its relationship to the New York landscape? What does it express, wh