Opinion
Weekend Words: Damage
This week, more curiosities from the art world's stratosphere. Intrigued, Weekend Words looks at forms of damage.
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Art
Catherine Murphy’s Challenge
This is Catherine Murphy’s first exhibition with Peter Freeman — and the inaugural show of gallery’s large, new space (March 14–April 27, 2013). Although Murphy has been showing regularly in New York since the early '70s, this is the first time that she has had a space big enough to comfortably disp
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (March 2013, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of music for autobahns, a rough guide to samba, Kacey Musgraves, A$AP Rocky, Monoswezi, Modestep, OneRepublic, and Teleseen.
Art
Mind Electric: Edward Avedisian
I met Edward Avedisian by chance at Max’s Kansas City when I sat down next to him at the bar. Otis Redding filled the air. “You know,” Edward turned to me and said, “Ultimately what pop-music is all about is hiring someone to cry in public for you.” He watched for my response, eyes alert beneath his
Art
The Presence of Paint: Baker Overstreet’s Pleasure Principle
Every now and then we realize how much we live in a digital mirage. Take Baker Overstreet’s show at Fredericks & Freiser. Although this is the artist’s fourth solo in New York, I hadn’t yet seen his work in the flesh, my only exposure being images and reviews.
Poetry
"Complementary Noteboke" by Anselm Berrigan
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Anselm Berrigan for his sixth in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Opinion
The Man Who Led 1990s Art Censorship Scandal Is Running for NYC Mayor
The name Joseph J. Lhota may not be a household one (yet), but the current Republican mayoral candidate has done a lot in his time in New York City politics. Art worlders may remember him as the man who led the Giuliani administration's push to bully the Brooklyn Museum into censoring an artwork fro
Opinion
Previously Unseen Photographs and Basquiat Ephemera Come to Light in a New York Apartment
Alexis Adler has one of the world's greatest troves of 1980s art in her apartment — doubly true because the art is her apartment. She "had relations" with Jean Michel Basquiat, as she says in a short documentary by Animal New York, and though they weren't quite boyfriend and girlfriend, Basquiat did
Opinion
New York's AIDS Memorial Looks Like a Bus Shelter
How did this ethereal design of an “infinite forest” transform into a hideous, bus-shelter-like, 18-foot steel canopy?
Art
Aesthetic Insubordination: Elevating the Everyday
Curious Matter’s current show, Aesthetic Insubordination, is modest but rewarding. Organized by Virginia-based artist Travis Childers, the exhibition features five artists who find inspiration in common domestic materials, like razor blades, buttons, and flannel.
Art
The Anti-artist-statement Statement
I hate artist statements. Really, I do. As an artist, they are almost always awkward and painful to write, and as a viewer they are similarly painful and uninformative to read. I also don’t know who decided that artists should be responsible for writing their own “artist statement.”
Comics
Help Me Be More Charitable
It's a really simple solution and it would make me feel good.