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The Best of Chicago’s MDW Art Fair: Cat Taxidermy, Tarot, and Interactive Icebergs
CHICAGO — MDW is not an art fair focused on sales and bringing in big-name collectors. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
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Motoi Yamamoto's Saltscapes
Motoi Yamamoto makes elaborate installations using a very nontraditional contemporary art material, table salt. For the latest installment of The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/40489/31604/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/58775/0], the Japanese artist traveled to t
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Art Rx
Our weekly Art Rx: Hurricane Sandy benefit edition. Spend your money and time buying and seeing art, and feel good about it.
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Gabriel Orozco Brings Beach Collecting to the Guggenheim, I-Spy Style
In a side gallery off the Guggenheim’s main spiral, it looks like a tide of water came and went, leaving behind piles of bricks, wood, and detritus ripped from their original contexts and tossed into disarray. It’s not unlike certain parts of the New York City area, post-Sandy. The difference is tha
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Art Dealers Association Offers Relief in the Wake of Sandy
As everyone knows by now — and as we tried to document extensively here — Hurricane Sandy wreaked a fair amount of havoc on the art world. Streets and galleries flooded in Chelsea, art spaces downtown and in Queens lost power, artists living or working in Red Hook, Gowanus, and other hard-hit areas
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Activating the City: Artissima Giornale #4
TURIN — Everything in this house moves. This morning there was no toilet paper and no hot water. I ran into two new strangers in the kitchen last night after walking home 35 minutes in the rain from an industrial space outside the city temporarily being used as a music venue.
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Contemporary Photographers Remix Modern Masters
The Aperture Foundation, created in 1952, did much to alter photography’s reputation at a time when it was not yet considered art. Sixty years later, for the current anniversary exhibition, Aperture Remix, the foundation commissioned ten photographers — Rinko Kawauchi, Vik Muniz, Taiyo Onorato and N
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Art Thieves Rob South African Museum but Leave Behind the Real Prize [UPDATED]
The Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa was just the victim of a terrible robbery — but the thieves weren't quite smart enough to take full advantage of their haul. They stole $2 million in art, but the most significant piece was left behind because it didn't fit in their car.
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Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Isn't Going to be Eurocentric
The Financial Times has a short report on the partial unveiling of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection at the Abu Dhabi art fair, including this interesting nugget about the non-Eurocentric focus of the collection.
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Your Online Self-Esteem
Is this an endless cycle? And does it ever end?
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Required Reading
This week, designing for catastrophes, Chelsea's survival, Canada's art biennial, Toronto's take on street art, Jeff Koons and Basque separatists, and more.
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Weekend Words
An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors. The election, the aftermath, the game…