Art
Art Rx
It's a quiet week in New York. Holidays are a good time for museums, so the doctor recommends a few exhibitions, plus an art and new media festival and a few more Hurricane Sandy benefits. Happy Turkey Day!
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Opinion
What If "The Scream" Came Alive?
Romanian artist Sebastian Cosor creates a very personal animated vision of the world inhabited by Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893–1910) and sets it all to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky" (1973).
Opinion
Overheard at The Scream
Smartphone pics aren't the only source of social media buzz circulating around Edvard Munch's "The Scream, currently at MoMA. The chatter on Twitter is pretty funny, intriguing, and sometimes revealing, even if some of it is not directly related (but funny nonetheless).
News
Rijksmuseum Leads the Way with Their New Digital Collection
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has joined the ranks of Artsy, Pinterest, Google Art Project and Artstack in creating a way for letting audiences digitally engage with art. The difference between the museum and the technology start-ups is that the Rijksmuseum actually owns the artwork it presents.
Opinion
More Resources to Help You Recover from Sandy
For those still struggling to recover from Hurricane Sandy and the destruction left in its wake, we've rounded up a few more ways that you can get help.
Art
MoMA's Hilariously Bizarre Silent Screams
With one version of Munch's renowned The Scream series on display at MoMA, New Yorkers and tourist are mimicking the bald figure's extreme expression much the way tourists to Oslo have long been doing — though some aren't very successful at it. Some people may think it's tacky, I think it's a scream
News
Get Your Loft Law Questions Answered at a Free Clinic
Attention all New York artists living and working in converted industrial studios: New York City Loft Tenants has begun hosting a bimonthly housing clinic.
Comics
It's OK to Say No
It's OK to be selective about where you show your artwork.
Opinion
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.
Opinion
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.
Art
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
Art
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.