Art
Art Rx: Armory Week
Happy Armory Week, New York! It's that time again — time to get your fair on.
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Art
Hacking God
Last Saturday night was show-and-tell at the New York incarnation of Art Hack Day, which took place at 319 Scholes in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the treasures unearthed during the three-day hack-a-thon were on full display.
Hyperallergic
Announcing The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium Program
This Saturday, March 9, starting at 6pm, hundreds of new media and Tumblr aficionados will converge in East Williamsburg to discuss Tumblr, art, and the shifting realities of the world online at The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium, which is co-presented by Tumblr and Hyperallergic. The following
Art
Curating the Traces Left by Undocumented Migrants
In the summer of 2012, University of Michigan anthropologist Jason De León and a group of his students were doing fieldwork in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona when they came across the body of a 41-year-old woman. Her name was Marisol, and she was dead. She had been for four days.
Art
The Best Paint Ever
Recently, I stumbled into a post opening party where a number of fellow painters were squabbling over the the age old question of which paint tastes the best. If you’re not a painter you may not be aware of this long running argument. But, I suppose every subculture has it’s points of contention.
Performance
Spectral: The Ghost Dance of Butoh
Despite the setting — a small stage filled with nine dancers — there was a feeling of separateness and sadness. The Vangeline Theater, a Butoh dance group, celebrated its 10th anniversary on February 1 and 2 at the Triskelion Arts Aldous Theater; both nights were sold out, with more people waiting i
News
Online Resource for Chicago Artists Gets a Facelift
CHICAGO — If you’re an artist in New York City, you’re probably aware of not-for-profit or publicly-funded resources for artists, such as the New York Foundation for the Arts or the New York Art Resources Consortium, and several others that provide online information for artists about job and exhibi
Comics
Goya Was Right
The overabundance of reason makes it hard to produce anything …
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, MoMA's Rauschenberg/Johns closet, Libeskind rails against autocrat-serving architects, Piero della Francesca at the Frick, Dalí's curious 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Cory Arcangel in The New Yorker, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Cuts
With the threat of sequestration looming over the country all week like the sword of Damocles, Weekend Words has compiled its own set of cuts...
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (March 2013, Part 1)
Since January I’ve been squeezing an extra review into each catalogue, and, nearing the end of February, it finally cost me a deadline. I’m pretty satisfied with the way things turned out, though. As of this post since March last year, I’ve reviewed 100 2012 albums, not bad. High points here are a C
Art
Breaking the Postmodern Creed: Thomas Nozkowski’s Unimaginable Paintings and Drawings
By 1974, Thomas Nozkowski had made two decisions – he would paint on widely available, 16 x 20-inch, prepared canvas boards, and everything he painted would come from personal experience.