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The jade collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was once showcased in an opulent room in the style of Louis XV, with fifteen delicate glass cases presided over by a chandelier. But it's vanished as if it were never there.
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In a sensational front page story, today's New York Times announces what the art world has long known: "Qatari Riches Are Buying Art World Influence." Yes, the Qataris — and other Gulf monarchs — are rapidly amassing a motherlode of contemporary art, and in the process likely driving up art prices w
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When Italian revolutionaries made an assassination attempt on Napoleon III in 1858, and it turned out that they'd been refugees in Great Britain, the British looked at their outnumbered army and rightly wondered if they should beef up their forces in comparison to the enraged French. One of these vo
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The American suburbs are already surreal places, perfectly planned roads dotted with identical homes infinitely replicated across the country. In his two-year Suburban project, Australian artist Ian Strange radically transformed these places into something even more otherworldly with paint and flame
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The stately facade of Sir John Soane’s Museum sits on the northwest side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, a square, grassy park filled with young Londoners throwing frisbees, drinking beer, and flirting. The interior of the museum, at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, is a strikingly different environment, a purpose
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This week, New York is fabulous and eclectic as always. There's public art at City Hall, South Korean film at Socrates Sculpture Park, an animation block party all over Brooklyn, and the end of two summertime series.
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CHICAGO — There’s always some sort of surprise awaiting you in the basement. Consent is not necessary here; you are allowed to freely descend the stairs of Woman Made Gallery, where two solo exhibitions by Brenna Conley-Fonda and Robin Hustle await. Both of these artists implicate their bodies and b
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Gender browser provides a "multiscale view of gender representation across multiple domains of scholarly publishing." The picture ain't pretty.
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CHICAGO — This week's selfie series is curated entirely from submissions that you, dear internet reader, sent to me through the selfies [at] hyperallergic [dot] com email address. I was wondering if you'd accept the challenge to write, and indeed, you did. Thank you. You are fearless.
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Apparently we do. From an art critic, of all people. In last week's Village Voice, critic Christian Viveros-Faune wrote what would have been a great review of the current Llyn Foulkes retrospective at the New Museum — if he hadn't started the piece with an inexplicable three-paragraph screed against
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LOS ANGELES — Rudolph Schindler was ahead of his time. A protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and an early adapter of modernism, he introduced a revolutionary form of architecture to Los Angeles in the early 1900s. Unfortunately, at the time, no one cared.
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Many people love art for its power to transport, whether through a painting that brings us to the banks of the Seine in 19th-century France or an installation that immerses us in a fanciful and imagined alternate world. But what about when art refuses to carry us away, offering instead only blank sp