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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 34th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
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“In Painting We Discover Demons; If We Don't Exorcise Them They Devour Your Ass!”
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Traditionally, art history is contained on objects — the artifacts that artists leave behind and populate our museums and galleries, offering aesthetic arguments, disagreements, and manifestos. But the messier, less packaged-up side of art history is hidden in the people who live
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In Ongoing Palestine-Israel Archeology Politics, the Conflict Over a Cemetery and a Museum
History is compressed in Jerusalem, where settlements go back thousands of years and every step is over layers of archeology. And in a place where land and its ownership is constantly in conflict, especially over who-was-here-first, this archeology has long been embedded with politics, especially in
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Zaha Hadid's Candid Critique on Misogyny Against Female Architects
Responding to a research on discrimination against women architects, Zaha Hadid, one of the top female architects and the first woman to be honored with the Pritzker Prize (an incredibly prestigious award in the industry), has stated that she herself experienced difficulties in working in the United
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Cardboard Portraits from Crumbling Cities
On a dark street in Bushwick on Beat Nite last week, one storefront stood out. From the plate-glass façade gazed out a classical, simplified portrait of a smiling girl’s face filling the entire doorway. Her hand stretched over the rest of the window, grasping a paper airplane, about to let it go.
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The Age of Constricting Glamor: A Preview of Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity at the Met
Compared to other portraits of 19th century ladies, Édouard Manet's painting of poet Nina de Callias was scandalously exotic, with her golden bangles, bolero jacket, Algerian shirt, and flourish of a feather in her curled hair, not to mention her open, sensual pose. A little scruffy dog rests its he
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Announcing The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium
Hyperallergic and Tumblr have joined forces to present "The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium." This project, which is part discussion and part exhibition, explores the fast evolving artistic landscape of Tumblr, one of the world’s leading social media and blogging platforms.
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Hilarious Portlandia Episode Shows the Dangers of Conceptual Art
For those uninitiated into its history, conceptual art can often seem like a trick — is that really a urinal in an art gallery? Is sticking yogurt caps on gallery walls really great art? Unfortunately for Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, the stars and creators of the sketch TV show Portlandia, it
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I Dare You Not to Be Impressed By This Tool for 3D Drawing
How can you not be impressed with a project that promises a pen that can draw in the air?
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A Black Outsider Artist in a White Art World
I recently went to the National Arts Club to watch All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert, a documentary about a 68-year-old African-American outsider artist, which is currently being screened at various locations in New York.
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Art Rx
This week, lots of talks, discussions, and conversations to stimulate your intellect — plus a screening of one of the most revered films of all time, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev.
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The Painterly Cravings of Larry Poons
Larry Poons might be considered one of the top painters working today, and he knows it. Over his five-decade career he has painted seminal works that have been shown and owned by an illustrious list of prominent private and museum collections all over the world. Critics and historians have written a