Art
The Aesthetics of Democracy
BERKELEY, California — This election year both candidates used overly aestheticized imagery for their campaigns, but what is the place for quality art in our democracy?
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Seeing Behind a Master's Process: Matisse
It's a funny thing to see one of the heroes of modern art at work. Viewing Matisse: In Search of True Painting at the Metropolitan Museum is kind of like watching a YouTube video of Pablo Picasso painting. The artistic act is present and impressive — you are seeing a great painter create great art i
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Happy Holidays from Hyperallergic
May you be with your loved ones this holiday!
Art
Art Rx
Art Rx: holiday edition! Time to visit some museums.
Opinion
3D-Printed Christmas Cookies!
If you need any more proof that 3D printing is taking over the entire world, an artist has created perfectly delicious, intricately designed Christmas cookies with the help of a computer model and a printing machine.
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Searching for Guns, Hidden Signs, and Lemurs in the Art of William S. Burroughs
BRIGHTON, UK — For the duration of the visit, we are invited to pretend that a space around the corner from the British Museum has become that site of Beat-generation novelist, painter, and performer William S. Burroughs’ fevered imagination: "Interzone" from the novel Naked Lunch.
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Historic Beijing Neighborhoods to Be Bulldozed
The heart of Beijing isn't the cold, highway-crossed neighborhood around Tiananmen Square, but the corridors of old, hutong-style houses just to the north. Two landmarks stand sentinel over this area — the Drum and Bell Towers, stately structures built in 1272. Now, in the name of easing access to t
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Deadlines Suck
I'll get to that later.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, artist's explore Christmas, photography and slavery, Rosler's unradical garage sale, Norman Foster's NYPL designs, early Franz Kline, Hoberman on The Hobbit, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Gifts
Weekend Words turns to gifts, for the obvious reasons.
Art
In the Desert with Richard Artschwager
“In my beginning is my end.” The first line of T. S. Eliot’s poem “East Coker” — the second of his Four Quartets — came unexpectedly to mind when I returned for a last look at Richard Artschwager’s The Desert, a selection of pastels along with two paintings, at David Nolan Gallery. Artschwager’s mis
Poetry
The Obscenities Are in Quotes
Whatever became of the New York School? There was a first generation, the last avant-garde according to some (but not so last that there couldn’t be a second generation and a third, and …) as whatever it was that defined the school as a school, beyond the simple fact of friendship, dissolved into th