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And Obama Wins!
Hyperallergic endorsed US President Barack Obama a few weeks ago, and we're happy to report that the Democratic nominee has been elected to a second term today.
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Keep Hope Alive Alive and Other Democratic Clichés
Artist Suzanne Broughel's "Keep Hope Alive Alive" project takes vintage designs from past Black presidential candidates (Jesse Jackson and Shirley Chisholm mostly) and altered them to remove the candidate's name and image leaving the generic imagery of "hope," "change," and the other clichés of the
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6 Arty Places to Watch Election Results in NYC Tonight
Sandy can't stop the election! If you haven't voted yet, you still have a few hours left before the deadline hits, and then it'll be time for the next democratic sport — waiting for the results. Here are a few ways to experience the returns in an art-friendly way.
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Jean Dubuffet's Lasting Legacy
BRIGHTON, U.K. — Perhaps it is little wonder the last time Jean Dubuffet was reviewed in a public gallery in the United Kingdom, the year was 1966 and the decade was swinging. The French painter’s love of raw creativity was of a piece with the social revolutions taking place. His invention of Art Br
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Just the Facts: 2012 US Presidential Candidates Arts Positions
How do the two US Presidential candidates measure up in regards to their arts-funding records?
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A Wild Forest of Queer Aesthetics
Curator Danny Orendorff's 19-artist exhibition All Good Things Become Wild and Free at Carthage College's H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is a textually rich, difficult-to-describe arrangement. It is a forest plucked from the sewage system of Candyland-meets-Edward-Gorey’s
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How Things Fall Apart: Photos from The Rockaways
After yesterday's report on MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach's efforts to gather volunteers for a second volunteer trip to The Rockaways this upcoming weekend, we felt compelled to share these images by photographer Amanda Kirkpatrick, who traveled to the Queens neighborhood last weekend to docume
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Art Rx
Your substitute doctor this week has the perfect cure for those post-Sandy blues. What better to way to show solidarity with the art institutions impacted by the flood than attending a slew of brand new and freshly rescheduled openings in Chelsea and all around New York?
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MoMA PS1's Klaus Biesenbach Explains Why Rockaway Needs Your Help Now
For the last week, MoMA PS1 director and curator Klaus Biesenbach has been actively tweeting about the devastation in the Rockaways section of Queens, which was hit hard by post-tropical cyclone Sandy. While power returned to most of lower Manhattan late Friday night and 80% of the city's subway sys
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China Report: Censorship and Self-Censorship in Beijing's Gallery District
BEIJING — "BEIJING AUTUMN: OFF THE RADAR ART RESISTANCE IN CAOCHANGDI ---CCD300" is the SMS that was sent to advertise an exhibition project called Manmade and Natural Disasters, started by a group of artists living and working in the Caochangdi art village to the northeast of Beijing. A similar not
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Constructing Instead of Consuming: DIY Furniture
Industrial design purports to offer efficient, elegant solutions to life's problems in formats accessible to everyone — it's the dream of changing the world through mass manufacturing. But how often does design actually accomplish that goal?
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The Unnatural Wonders of Japan’s Influential Rinpa Aesthetic
I always consider it fortunate that at institutions like the Metropolitan Museum, exhibitions continue to argue eloquently that art has evolved along manifold trajectories before postmodern discourses recognized it as so. In that vein, one of the highlights of the fall museum season, Designing Natur