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Banksy Debbie-Downers The Queen's Diamond Jubilee

Banksy is celebrating Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee with a bit of art.

Opinion

Wait for the Bus, Charge Your Phone

Design consultancy Pensa's new video concept explores on-the-go charging stations for our gadgets.

Opinion

Prince v Cariou: How Much Does Fair Use Co$t?

An op-ed on the current Prince v Cariou appeal and how it's about money.

Opinion

See the Web Without the Words

LOS ANGELES — For all their problems, white walls in galleries make sense sometimes. But it's not always easy to get an image in isolated on the web anymore.

Interview

A Jewish Art Gallery Opens in the Heart of Brooklyn's Hassidic Community

It may not have been on everyone's radar, but last week a new New York art gallery opened — in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. True to one of the major ethnic groups that neighborhood has long been known for, the new space is dedicated solely to Jewish, mostly Hassidic, art, which is a relatively new pheno

Opinion

The Shadowy World of Art in Tax-free Ports

"The majority of the world’s art that is not on display, either in museums or private residences, is stored in a small number of tax-free ports across the globe, mainly in Switzerland."

Art

Art Rx

The doctor is in and she said you should go to Governors Island this week. Nope, she won't take any excuses, she insists, and she says bring your bike.

Art

The Painting That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits

Andrew Shea’s blistering new documentary, Portrait of Wally, untangles the complicated historical, legal and moral threads surrounding Egon Schiele’s painting “Portrait of Wally” (1912), which pitted the art world against heirs of the painting’s pre-World War II owners and the US government.

Opinion

Release Takeshi Miyakawa Now! [UPDATED] He's Free!

Those of us at Hyperallergic HQ have been watching the case of Takeshi Mikayawa very closely and scratching our heads as to why any judge would sentence a designer-turned-street-artist to 30 days without bail and a psychiatric evaluation.

Performance

Ancient Greece Meets Contemporary New York

Readings are a staple of every literary calendar. Author Paul Rome has taken this bit of weeknight ritual and rebuilt it as equal parts performance and literature. To do so, he’s performed a simple trick: Rome writes to read.

Art

Minotaurs and Mistresses: Picasso at the British Museum

CHICAGO — It's on days like this that I wish I still lived in London. If you do, or you're visiting between May and September, make sure the British Museum is on your to-do list: they are mounting a rare show devoted entirely to Picasso's "Vollard" suite, a set of 100 etchings that Picasso made in t

Art

Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll at a San Francisco Art Fair

SAN FRANCISCO — A flurry of art fairs took place in San Francisco this past weekend, including ArtPadSF, which is the smaller yet debonair competitor to the much larger artMRKT San Francisco and SF Fine Art Fair.