Art
Art Rx: Brooklyn/Montreal Edition
This week, the doctor wants you to focus, and her suggestion is the exciting Brooklyn/Montreal art exchange to cure your ills.
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The Migration of Social Exchange
HOLLAND, Massachusetts — The use of electronic signals for instantaneous, mediated communication began with the telegraph, intensified with the telephone, and today flourishes across the internet. It would not be hyperbole to say that physical proximity is no longer essential to social exchange. And
Comics
The Aura of the Art Memento
What do I do with this piece of tape … ?
Opinion
Seeing Past the Gimmick of 3D Photography
LOS ANGELES — 3D is experiencing a bit of a renaissance, what with 3D films and 3D GIFs becoming all the rage. Heck, you might count 3D printing into the mix, with printed cookies now possible. But I still long for a 3D practice that takes 3D past the simple fact of its three dimensions and gives us
Hyperallergic
Merry Armenian Christmas
Today, Hyperallergic HQ is closed in observance of yesterday's Armenian Christmas celebrations. Whether you celebrate Epiphany, Three Kings Day, Armenian Christmas, Feast of Theophany, and Eastern Orthodox Christmas, we wish you a happy holiday!
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Gagosian's art business, Dave Hickey's contradictions, museums collecting non-Western art, photographs in the National Gallery, the Library of Congress' Twitter archive, damage to the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Museum, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Luck
Unlucky? Now that we're officially in year 13 of the 21st century, Weekend Words asks, "What’s luck got to do with it?"
Art
“The Rose” Is Not A Rose
From 1955 to 1966, Jay DeFeo and her painter husband, Wally Hedrick, lived at 2322 Fillmore Street, San Francisco. They were at the center of a lively, politically anarchic milieu of artists and poets that included Bruce and Jean Conner, Joan and Bill Brown, Deborah Remington, Sonia Gechtoff and Jam
Art
"The Line Into Which I Shall Merge": Jean Genet Among the Painters
Stendhal on Correggio, Baudelaire on Guys, Zola on Manet, Proust on Moreau. It's a long-standing practice, French poets and novelists taking up art criticism. In the 20th century, the roster continues: Apollinaire,Breton, Leiris, Malraux, Sartre, Bataille, Bonnefoy, and there's the French poet-paint
Music
Thinking About Frank Ocean
CHICAGO — In the summer of 2011, back before his blown-up image started selling thousands of records, I discovered Frank Ocean while looking through a batch of new releases, through a then-mysterious single called “Novacane.” First I was drawn in by the lyrics, with their Kubrick references, subtle
Art
Art’s Martyr: The Drawings and Paintings of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Today is the final day of a wonderful exhibition that crept into town during the holiday crush and threatens to leave just as quietly, after little more than a three-week run.
Art
Thinking BIG in Phoenix
Last month, Danish architecture firm BIG unveiled its plans for a landmark in Arizona's largest city that the developer hopes will become a symbol of the city much in the way Seattle's Space Needle has come to represent that great Northwestern city.