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Every day New Yorkers wander the gridded streets of the city, traveling to and around subway stations in the morning and under neon signs at night. The study of how a geographic environment like this affects us emotionally and behaviorally is called psychogeography.
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KAMPALA, Uganda — All over Kampala, and in many parts of Uganda, you'll find them: shipping containers. From and to all over the world, shipping containers arrive and go out. Some stay, serving as a storage container on the side of a road, repurposed for whatever the contents. Others go. But, for th
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CHICAGO — Five artists from New York, Ontario, Utah, and Wyoming open up their studios for Hyperallergic readers.
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BERKELEY, California — Ratio 3 gallery's new show of work by Lutz Bacher is a must see. The large, skylight-lit, raw gallery space is perfect for Bacher's captivating installation of audio, visual, and sculptural work. Upon entering the gallery one immediately focuses on the small black spheres scat
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This weekend, a slice of our New York community will be traveling to Canada for Brooklyn Montreal, a two-city festival celebrating contemporary art.
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CHICAGO — Instead of saying to yourself, "There's an app for that," repeat after me: "There's an emoji for that." In our technology-inundated world of constantly being glued to the glowing screens of our iPhones and Androids, more apps are not the answer to our first-world problems. What we need is
Opinion
Words and writing, even those you're seeing here, are an imperfect vehicle for communication. There's always a disconnect between the writer and their audience; meaning is translated through a medium that's easy to misunderstand or misinterpret. Spanish photographer Alejandro Guijjaro's Momentum ser
Opinion
It's time once again to look at a particular metric of art-world success — Art Review's Power 100, which gets published annually to tell us just how many people place above us in the supposed pecking order. There still aren't any bloggers on the list (though, to be fair, writers and editors aren't a
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What could be a better catwalk than 14th Street? Well, probably most places. It's crowded, noisy, cluttered with retail, and not one of the most attractive streets in Manhattan. Yet in its two week run from October 5 to 15, Art in Odd Places, involving more than 100 artists tackling the theme of "Mo
Opinion
Today China's biggest online food retailer, Yihaodian, announced one of the most amazingly weird plans I've ever heard: the company will roll out 1,000 virtual supermarkets around the country. The stores — spanning 1,200 square meters (roughly 12,900 square feet) in virtual space and stocking about
Announcement
Brooklyn artist Scott Campbell [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/37863/29176/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/52912/0] is a typical New York creative in that he's passionate about his eclectic tastes and interests. One of his loves is a Monday night radio show on East Village Radio by th
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The Nada Art Fair has sent a letter to the galleries included in its 2012 Miami fair, threatening that those who have also signed up to participate in the new, competing Untitled Miami fair will not be asked to return to Nada next year, Christian Viveros-Faune, writing at The Art Newspaper, reports.