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The latest news coming out of Istanbul in the story of the impending museum deaccession auction is that the focal point of the controversy, Istanbul Bilgi University, has issued a press release and agreed to a meeting with activists. The university administers the recently closed Santralistanbul Mus
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You might know Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied as internet artists, or more specifically, as internet archaeologists. The duo have made a practice of plumbing the depths of internet culture, dusting off old memes and spelunking in old corners of the web. The obscure nature of their work makes th
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The New York Public Library is asking for quiet with its current exhibition, Echoes of Silence, the first to consider the early works of the architectural photographer Philip Trager — but silence isn’t a word that comes to mind when looking at a Trager photograph. One is drawn instead to the photogr
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Opening tonight, the New Museum's NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star purports to offer a time capsule, or, as the museum's curator Gary Carrion-Murayari put it, a "form of collective memory" documenting a particular time in a particular art scene, namely, New York City in the '90s.
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What's the best way to show artwork — both made for the web and not — online? How do we bring net art into the physical space of a gallery? These are two of the questions that curators, artists, and others in the art world are increasingly confronting and most likely will be for a while. Two attempt
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BRIGHTON, UK — For several decades now we have been laboring under the impression David Bowie is a pop star. But a new show at Tate Liverpool puts Bowie where he firmly belongs, as a central figure in art. It proves the pioneering musician is also a muse, a performance artist, and a conceptualist al
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As the first Catholic Pope to resign from his position since Gregory XII in the 15th century, Pope Benedict XVI has startled the world with his announcement that he will step down by the end of this month. While controversially conservative (and much less benevolent-appearing than his predecessor th
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I teach drawing, and I often have people tell me that they can’t draw, that they couldn’t even draw a stick figure. And so I ask them how they know that. And they say, “Yeah, I tried it and it looked like crap.” The truth of the matter is that art is not so much the way things look, but a way of loo
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For those who love the vibrant art scene of Bushwick and its younger sister in Queens, Ridgewood, it is a good time to venture through the area's galleries to see a wide range of work that is sure to inspire and provoke conversation. These are seven shows that are worth a look.
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Celebrating what would be (if he was not in fact a mortal and evolved human) Charle's Darwin's 204th birthday, today's Darwin Day is an international extravaganza with events around the world. If you're not lucky enough to be near a party serving primordial soup (a recipe with open interpretation ba
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Last week, Hyperallergic reported on the alleged discovery of the upper half of Gustave Courbet's x-rated "The Origin of the World" in Paris. Experts are now casting doubt on the argument that the portrait fragment belongs to "Origin," or even that it was actually painted by Courbet. With help from
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On Valentine's Eve (is that a thing?), Tracey Emin will watch her video piece "I Promise to Love You," along with the thousands of people that constantly circulate Times Square, as its neon pledges of love scrawl in wavering neon over 15 of Times Square's giant screens.