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Why a Queer Photographer Is Going South
CHICAGO — Budding young Cincinnati-based gay documentary photographer Christian Hendriks has an agenda. It involves travel, pictures and maybe even you.
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Required Reading
This week, a major museum curator goes commercial, the Hirshhorn director is out, female artists are under-represented in the UK, a digital take on a gallery Jane Austen visited in 1813, the owner of John Currin's topless Bea Arthur portrait, and more.
Books
Thrivers in the Muck: Matias Viegener (Part One)
Sometimes, it is hard to remember that Social Media came along years after the rise of the personal computer and the Internet, which Al Gore called the “Information Superhighway.” But like the highway in Jean-Luc Godard’s apocalyptic comedy, Weekend (1967), the Internet is littered with refuse and u
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Weekend Words: Fake
Now that the Feds have dropped an anvil on Glafira Rosales, the mysterious art dealer who's been the target of lawsuits over alleged forgeries of Abstract Expressionist paintings, charging her with tax fraud, the question still remains: are the artworks fake?
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (May 2013, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Draft Punk, the Knife, Matuto, and Paramore.
Art
Born Under a Bad Sign: Hard Luck, Art, and Tumors
“This cartoon-y format creates a bias toward humor and lightheartedness, but I don’t feel like that at all,” Matt Freedman writes in his artist’s book, Relatively Indolent but Relentless (2013), directly beneath a drawing of a pair of scissors snipping off the tip of his tongue.
Art
Breaking Free: New Cambodian Art
Dark charcoal skyscrapers loom on a studio wall; below them bright, tiny sculptures bloom from soil beds. In another studio, women’s underwear in every shade and style hang from wires, while letters unfolded, scanned, and folded again reveal a glimpse of a lost father. These are just some of the pro
News
Detroit's Bankruptcy Raises Liquidation Worries for Priceless Museum Collection
With Detroit on the brink of declaring bankruptcy, all avenues to rescue the city from insolvency are being put on the table. One of these is the multi-billion dollar art collection held by the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum (DIA), a possibility which could be pushed for in a bankruptcy situation
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Lawsuit Accuses the City and Lincoln Center of Privatizing a Public Park
A handful of New York residents and environmental activist groups are suing the City of New York, the Parks Department, and Lincoln Center over the use of Damrosch Park, a 2.44-acre park on the Upper West Side. The lawsuit claims that the city has effectively, but illegally, handed over management o
Art
A Green Screen Mirrors the Impossibilities of Arrival
Somewhere in Los Angeles, a movie is being filmed, an actor is speaking words from memory, and a person is hunched over a screen carefully editing moving images using the green screen, a post-production special effects technique that layers on a background that doesn’t physically exist. The conceptu
Art
Bringing Walking Into the Dashboard to Bushwick Open Studios
Arts in Bushwick, Tumblr, and Hyperallergic have resurrected Walking Into the Dashboard from The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium for the 2013 Bushwick Open Studios.
Art
A Trove of Portraiture Once Hidden Away in Oxford's Library Goes Online
The Bodleian Library acts as something of the University of Oxford's cerebral hub with over 11 million items, but what has been an inaccessible secret is its large holding of art. Now 300 of its paintings are now viewable on Your Paintings hosted by the BBC.