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How Long Does It Really Take?
Some things take time …
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Required Reading
This week, Banksy dramas, Sou Fujimoto's cloud-like Serpentine Pavilion, a queer history of computing, improv doesn't pay, claims of discrimination at the El Museo del Barrio, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Stardust
With a meteor streaking across the Siberian sky and the Oscars ceremony tonight, Weekend Words fixes its eye on the stars — shooting, falling or going nowhere in particular.
Art
Foreign Policy: How the Oscars Slight Global Cinema
In 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences sparked a flurry of debate when it was announced that the Best Picture category for the Oscar would be expanded from five to ten nominees. According to then-academy president Sid Ganis, the increased number would “allow Academy voters to recogni
Art
Peter Williams’s Body, Opened and Closed
Peter Williams — who is sixty and black — is having his first solo exhibition of paintings in New York. And not one to ever play it safe, he is exhibiting two distinct bodies of work at Foxy Production (February 15, 2013–March 23, 2013) — three smallish abstract paintings and five large figurative o
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (February 2013)
This month, reviews of Miguel, Tame Impala, Swans, Killer Mike, and Future.
Books
Splinter Group: Short Works by Antonio Tabucchi
In his note to this collection, the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi (1943–2012) refers to the 14 pieces as “drifting splinters.” These “fragments of novels and stories,” he writes, “have a larval nature.” They are “sketchy compositions,” “quasi-stories,” and “background noise.” Despite the author’s
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In the Schnabel Chapel, Part 2
“The Patients and the Doctors” (1978) is Julian Schnabel’s first plate painting. It is also the title of a prose poem/essay he wrote for the February 1984 issue of Artforum, a ham-fisted manifesto that did little to dispel his reputation for defensive bluster.
Poetry
"The Night I Almost Fucked Ezra Pound" by Ana Božičević,
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Ana Božičević for his fifth in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
Are We Post–Black Art?
There are so many fault lines between art and politics, navigating them can feel dizzying and often futile. Conversations about identity politics, economics, heritage, corrective curating, and the broader issues of inclusion and exclusion are important but can be a drag on art itself, to the point w
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Revisiting Tumblr as Art
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of commissioned essay for The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium [http://hyperallergic.com/65452/announcing-the-worlds-first-tumblr-art-symposium/]. This essay is a revised and expanded version of Ben Valentine's "Tumblr as Art [http://hyperallergic.com/4
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Filling in the Gaps: Feminism's Continued Relevance in the Arts
This past weekend I joined the audience for the day of panel discussions at the Brooklyn Museum organized by The Feminist Art Project as part of the annual College Art Association Conference. I was only able to stay for the first three and a half panels, in a day that included five. But in those thr