Art
Art Rx
This week, there's a rare (and bootleg) Guy Debord film release, Balthus overload, performance Thursdays in Bushwick, Dumbo's art festival, one-minute films, and much much more. The key this week is to do everything — no excuses.
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News
ArtPrize Jurors Announce 2013 Short Lists
Today, the 2013 ArtPrize jury prize short lists have been announced in the following five categories: Two-Dimensional Art, Three-Dimensional Art, Time and Performance Art, Use of Urban Space, and Outstanding Venue.
Art
RoseLee Goldberg to Speak at Hyperallergic ArtTalk on Mon Oct 7
On Monday, October 7, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring curator RoseLee Goldberg at The Bedford in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The topic for that evening’s discussion and conversation is, of course, performance art.
Interview
A Blasted-Out Planetarium Nirvana
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Filmmaker Julie Nymann and composer Ricardo Donoso, along with curator Alexis Avedisian, have collaborated on a video project for the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston.
Performance
Werner Herzog and Ken Burns in Conversation, or When One and One Makes Three
HANOVER, N.H. — The Telluride Film Festival, staged in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado every Labor Day weekend, became the setting for an unlikely annual reunion of two powerhouse documentary filmmakers twenty-eight years ago, when Werner Herzog and Ken Burns first converged in the remote mountai
Music
Occam's Razor: In Defense of Drone
There is nothing like the ethereal monotonal droning of bow on string to amplify the dismal cacophony of human tics, our collective bodily disquiet.
Comics
Is Nothing Sacred?
Selling out is hard not to do …
Art
Revealing the Group Selfie
CHICAGO — Selfies are no more a singular activity than any other type of digital vernacular photograph.
Books
The 19th-Century Story of the Wonderful Tattooed Man
The story of how a boy from Providence, Rhode Island, became "the most wonderful tattooed man ever known in the civilized world" involves menacing sailors and voyages across the sea, and was recently digitized so that we can all read this tale of the 19th century.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, New Yorker gets snarky, guns at MoMA, new Banksy, digitizing drawings, a literary classic is banned in North Carolina, and more
Art
Robert Rauschenberg and Photography
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of photography throughout Rauschenberg’s career.
Books
Living in Hypothesis: The Poetry of Patrizia Cavalli
It’s refreshing, in this age of ubiquitous self-promotion, to pick up a book modestly titled My Poems Won’t Change The World, the first substantial American anthology of Patrizia Cavalli’s work.