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Required Reading
This week, anger at MoMA's plan to destroy the American Folk Art Museum building, art market tidbits, the Digital Library of America, academia's servants, foundational principles, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Gamble
In a case of metaphor becoming reality, on Tuesday Hyperallergic passed along the news that Helly Nahmad Gallery on the Upper East Side had been busted by the Feds for running “high-stakes poker games involving Wall Street financiers, Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes."
Art
Tilting at Windmills: Joe Zucker as Don Quixote
Joe Zucker is the most inventive artist of his generation, which includes Elizabeth Murray, Mel Bochner, Joan Snyder and his longtime friend, Chuck Close, and perhaps the most misunderstood. One reason for the confusion is that reviewers have often focused on Zucker’s inventiveness with materials an
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (April 2013, Part 1)
I've talked about Michael Tatum before, but that Kitty song compels me to cite this marvelous Tatum sentence, about Skrillex: "…any hairstyle that resembles a palomino's hindquarters when viewed from an elevated height commits cosmetological crimes so outrageously grotesque they could send Korn's Jo
Art
The Writing on the Wall, the Paintings in the Basement
It’s not uncommon for artists to fall short of their own expectations, only for the public to find delight in the charged gap between the aspiration and the goal.
Interview
Standing on the Edge of Space: Painting as Noun and Verb
Oil on canvas. Evolving motifs. Line embedded in color. Compositions suspended between chaos and stability.
News
Warhol Foundation Selling Rare and Vintage Posters on Fab.com
On Thursday, April 25, the Andy Warhol Foundation will be presenting an array of signed and unsigned Andy Warhol posters on Fab.com.
Opinion
From the Inbox of a Mid-Level Journalist: Salad Dressing
Being a mid-level journalist and blogger is a special kind of adventure. Every day, as you head to your computer to open your inbox, you ponder what emails await you there. One day, you may receive an email from an artist whose medium is cat hair! The next day, a press invitation to Art Basel! And t
Opinion
Blame David Hockney: Francesco Clemente Creates an iPad Art Work
What's the appeal of an art work on an iDevice? Is it because we are familiar with these by now ubiquitous tools and work created on them give the air of being "current"? If that's the case, maybe we should change our thinking on the matter.
Art
The Almost Anonymous of the Digital Art World
Remove Justin Bieber from your internet. Slice up subway posters for easy remixing. Mix LEGO, K’nex, and Lincoln Logs in an incestuous scramble of childhood toys. Star in your own guerrilla TED talk. Those are just a brief excerpt of the mischievous things an active viewer can accomplish at Eyebeam’
Art
The Web Killed the Music Video Star
For a while there, it looked like the internet killed music videos, or at least their traditional channels. But the new technologies and social qualities of the web have also given rise to a new generation of interactive music videos.