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This week, designing for catastrophes, Chelsea's survival, Canada's art biennial, Toronto's take on street art, Jeff Koons and Basque separatists, and more.
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Weekend Words
An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors. The election, the aftermath, the game…
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The Meme After the Fall of The Tower of Babel
Susan Wheeler: God knows, as my mother would have said. I’m beginning to get an inkling, as I’ve been writing a series of poems that use her idiomatic expressions — she grew up in Topeka, and had a strong portion of Pennsylvania Dutch as well, but who knows where she got phrases like “busier than a
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Cartoons of Paintings Which Aren’t Cartoons After All
Tom Burckhardt’s current exhibition of paintings done on cast plastic molds expands upon the show he had at Pierogi in 2011. It is not a huge change, but it is a significant one as it further clarifies the artist’s intention.
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The Fair Begins, Artissima Giornale #3
TURIN — Last night, we had to hustle to get tickets for the Artissima after party. It was a sad moment because some of us got the tickets and the others did not, it fractured the group (would it be another night at Liber, our local billiard parlor?). In fact, the presence of Artissima in Torino has
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue: Run-DMC Special
CHICAGO — Inspired by Michael Tatum’s Downloader’s Diary, where Tatum has so far published two full-artist reviews, I tried my hand at this form, and this is where it got me. It’s a great excuse to extensively play records I otherwise wouldn’t have enough time for, not to mention a way to understand
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Beer with a Painter: Judith Linhares
Judith Linhares’s painting has been on my mind since I saw a show of her work in the spring of 2011 at the Edward Thorp Gallery. At the time I was thinking about both contemporary figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and these solidify in Linhares’s work with a rare conviction.
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Bidding on Oblivion
On Election Day, The New York Times featured an above-the-fold story in its Arts section about the fate of fake art as the country was deciding the fate of a fake politician. The article was illustrated by a tiny, smudged color reproduction of, as the caption states, a “disputed Jackson Pollock that
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Just 2 Weekends Left to Catch Brooklyn in Montreal
Brooklyn has become a global byword for cool — every city is said to have its own "Brooklyn" district as a home for artistic creativity. But what cities do we actually have anything in common with? As it turns out, our hip neighbor to the north, Montreal.
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Unlikely Music, Artissima Giornale #2
TURIN — I was woken up in the middle of the night by Giallo, a Sicilian artist who is staying in our living room, looking to use my computer; or possibly by Luca, in town from Milano, who wondered into my room looking for the bathroom. I was asleep before everyone else in my house and when I woke up
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Watch Jean Cocteau's Nightmarish First Feature Film
Inveterate surrealist and playwright, artist, and writer polymath Jean Cocteau said that his first film, The Blood of a Poet (1929), wasn't a work of surrealism — he wanted to "avoid the deliberate manifestations of the unconscious." But, I have to say, it's pretty surreal.