Books
Picture This: Sunandini Banerjee and the Book Illustrator’s Art
How do adjacent drawings or photos affect our reading experience as readers? What happens in the mind as we process both words and images? How do both tell a story together?
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Art
A Truly Subversive Artist Is Not Necessarily Someone Who Is Theatrical or Gimmicky
If there is one constant about Thomas Nozkowski that I would single out, it is his lifelong insistence on subverting conventions. In 1974 he began painting on canvas board measuring 16 by 20 inches. (Let’s be clear here — Bill Jensen never painted on this small a surface because it had no historical
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The Daily Practice of the Impossible
Dana Schutz, who is in her mid-30s, belongs to the generation of artists who grew up in an epoch where painting was routinely thought of as a dead practice. One couldn’t just be a painter, because doing so would be to enter a dusty domain crammed with empty signifiers. It would mean you were doing s
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Worker Bees of the Art World, Unite
If fairs like Frieze draw art and money into uncomfortably close proximity, all that does is state the obvious. To separate them — to pretend that the former can float free of the latter — might appear to be a clean, ethical stance, but that's a misperception.
Opinion
North Korea's New Website
LOS ANGELES — North Korea has a new website. And as far as I can tell, it's not a parody.
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Virginia Center Offering Fellowships for Social Media Artists
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) has just announced an exciting plan: it will offer two fellowships specifically for social media artists. Even more surprisingly, the endeavor is being made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Opinion
Lolcats ARTsCritz
Lolcats stopped by the office today and asked the staff if they could write a review of a show. It was Friday and we thought … why not!?
Opinion
Overheard in the Art World
Heard something too? Send your quotes with where you heard it to overheardintheartworld [at] hyperallergic [dot] com
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — A View from the Easel peaks into studios in Ireland, Indiana, Maine, Ontario and Florida.
Art
Coming to Grips with Social Art: Eight Extraordinary Greens
Jenna Spevack’s current exhibition at Mixed Greens seems take a shot at this popular preoccupation. Eight Extraordinary Greens is part public service announcement, part experiment in farming and part installation.
Art
MTV Sucks and Other Thoughtz from an Art Micro-celebrity
Jayson Musson aka Hennessy Youngman aka Mr. AKA’s might proclaim himself to be many things (including Mitt Romney’s drug dealer), but Tuesday night at Electronic Arts Intermix’s (EAI) screening of his web series Art Thoughtz, Musson seemed reluctant to embrace his identity as an art world celebrity.
News
Finishing “Mobile Homestead” After the Death of the Artist
Just a few months after the sudden death of artist Mike Kelley, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), the LUMA Foundation and Artangel have announced that one of his last projects, "Mobile Homestead," will be likely completed at MOCAD by the end of the year.