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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.

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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

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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.

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Gay Life Portrayed in Traditional Chinese Paper-cuts

LOS ANGELES — Being different is never easy, more so when you live in an infamously restrictive and conservative Communist Chinese society. Born in a farming village of the Shaanxi province, Xiyadie (a nom de plume meaning “Butterfuly in Siberia”) turns traditional paper-cut art into colorful, risqu

Opinion

Visualizing and Auralizing the Rhythms of Twitter

LOS ANGELES — What on earth is Twitter talking about? It's easy to find out: check your stream, scan some words and ta-da, you know what your friends are saying and doing.

Art

Art at Internet Week

Artists in the digital age and presenting art online, as well as exhibiting online art in offline spaces, were the focus of a couple of panels at Internet Week, a citywide festival examining the digital landscape that was held May 14 to 21.

Art

Should Museum Acquisitions Come at the Expense of their Education Departments?

Earlier this month, the J. Paul Getty Trust announced that it was cutting 34 jobs in its museum division. In and of itself, this wasn't huge news; despite the absurdly booming art market, the national economy continues to sag, meaning museums have to contend with smaller endowments and less generous

Opinion

The Stellar Fucking Growth of Fuck Yeah Tumblelogs

LOS ANGELES — Got a brilliant Tumblr idea? Would it fit the Fuck Yeah mold just right? Your blog would be just one of 100 new Fuck Yeah tumblelogs created each day since the meme began picking up in 2009.

News

Brooklyn Museum Returns to Crowd Curating with “Go”

Last Friday the Brooklyn Museum announced plans for Go, a new crowd-curated exhibition happening this fall and winter. For those familiar with the museum's work over the past few years, the use of crowd curating shouldn't come as much of a surprise — in fact, if anything, it's become something of a