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Required Reading
This week, the best thing you'll read today, the dying GIF, art auction records, the insularity of the New Aesthetic, the meaning of Edgar Degas' history paintings, and more.
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Weekend Words
An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors. This week, as portions of the city remain decimated by Hurricane Sandy, at Sotheby's and Christie’s nearly $1 billion was spent on contemporary art.
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Superfluous Men Can’t Get No Satisfaction
For all of their “nearly oppressive flawlessness,” Stichbury’s paintings and drawings do not look back to “the repository of classical ideas,” but to a world replete with cosmetic surgery, Photoshop, Facebook, Twitter and reality television, just to name a few of the ways society exhibits new and im
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Political Art, Galloping Out of the Past
“The Ozymandias Parade” by Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz has landed in the Pace Gallery like a DIY UFO — a frenzied agitprop vessel clattering into the 21st century from the Reagan era’s heart of darkness.
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Is Mark Bradford the Best Painter in America?
I didn’t expect to write about the new show from Mark Bradford, who has been called by Guy Trebay of The New York Times “if not the best painter working in America today then certainly the tallest,” when I walked into Sikkema Jenkins on Tuesday morning. Despite the whimsy of Trebay’s “best/tallest”
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Going East in the Southwest: A Studio Tour of Austin
AUSTIN — At a photography exhibition during the East Austin Studio Tour (EAST), visitors wondered aloud if Big Medium, the nonprofit that organizes the 11-year-old event, would ever jury the participants. The EAST catalogue, they noted, had expanded to nearly 550 pages to accommodate more than 400 a
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MoMA Goes Gangnam Style in Support of Ai Weiwei
The Museum of Modern Art posted this pretty fantastic photo on its Facebook page today — a shot of museum staff going Gangnam Style in support of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. If you're confused about why a New York museum would support a Chinese artist by dancing to a mega-popular song by South Korean
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Finding Connections in the Montreal/Brooklyn Exchange
Part One in a series of posts on the Montreal leg of the continuing Montreal/Brooklyn, or Brooklyn/Montreal, exchange.
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Creative Time Releases a Statement About the 2012 Summit Boycott
On October 12, during Creative Time's 2012 Summit we liveblogged the evolving boycott over what some people were calling a "partnership" with an Israeli organization that received funds from the Israeli government. Now the venerable arts nonprofit has released a statement regarding the event and the
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Man Tries to Sell Fake Jasper Johns for $11M
The owner of a foundry in Long Island City was arrested yesterday for allegedly making a bronze sculpture and trying to pass it off as an original Jasper Johns. But this isn't quite your run-of-the-mill art fraud, because the man, Brian Ramnarine, actually has a real mold from Johns; the artist gave
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TV Network Gets Man With Art Doppelganger to Dress the Part
ABC News has convinced Max Galuppo of Bloomsbury, NJ, who was propelled into the public spotlight when Reddit users couldn't believe how much he looked like “Portrait of a Nobleman with Duelling Gauntlet” (1562) by an anonymous artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to dress up like the 16th C. I
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 30th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.