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Art Rx

This week, African photography, Japanese avant-garde, contemporary political art, and new-media art that contemplates the possibilities of Armageddon.

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GO Crown Heights: Away from the Hype

I'm skeptical of crowd-curating and crowd-sourced art-prize voting. I've written about it here on Hyperallergic. Still, as the date approached, I found myself really excited about this past weekend's GO open studios event, organized by the Brooklyn Museum — not because I wanted to vote for who would

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How Lawyers Ruined a Great Photograph [UPDATED]

Photographer Mo Gelber captured this rather romantic moment outside the Manhattan Criminal Court on August 16. He entered the image into the Project Imaginat10n contest organized by director Ron Howard and Canon. Gelber's photo is obviously quite powerful but the contest administrators let the photo

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The Art World Needs Some Shock Therapy

It all started with a write-up on the Gallerist blog about Jordan Eagles’s new show at the Krause Gallery where his blood paintings are currently displayed. I immediately cringed when I went on a journey following all of his press, posts about him on Facebook and Twitter, and real life opinions with

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Giant Rodent Menaces Chicago

CHICAGO — Chicago has a rat problem, and you would be justified in thinking that Belgian street artist Roa is paying tribute to the tenacious rodent. According to the Chicago Urban Art Society, which arranged for Roa to bring his distinctive style to this neighborhood, it is in fact a possum.

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GO Sunset Park: An Emerging Art Community

The waterfront of Sunset Park in south Brooklyn was a major hub for military shipping and related industry from the world wars until its decommissioning in 1960, and, as happens with underused monumental warehouse spaces, artists have now moved into some of these towering structures. This past weeke

Comics

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

What can we learn about artists from the past to help artists feel better today?

Opinion

Required Reading

This week, the philosophical meaning of beauty, Ai Weiwei's LES education, mega-exhibitions, online fakes, Chardin's strange self-portrait and more.

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A Map That Never Stays the Same

Sun Tzu’s Sixth Century treatise, The Art of War, is one of the precursors to Gertrude Stein’s How to Write (1931). Written in different epochs, under different dark clouds, war either in progress or just around the fork in the road, these manuals are invaluable to an understanding of writing and th

Books

Booze Muse: Kingsley Amis, the Laureate of Hangovers

Here is a fun literary experiment: substitute the words ill or illness in Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill” (1930) with the words hung-over and hangover . It works, right? “Hangover is the great confessional”; “In a hangover words seem to possess a mystic quality”; “Incomprehensibility has an en

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When an Immovable Object Meets an Unstoppable Force

On Sunday, my Hyperallergic Weekend colleague Claudia La Rocco published a piece in The New York Times titled “Museum Shows With Moving Parts,” which explored the expanding presence of dance in museum settings.

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Have Researchers Found a New Photo of Emily Dickinson?

Today we take it for granted that we have photographs of pretty much everyone: famous or not, smartphone-owning or not, Instagram-using or not. It's hard to imagine anyone becoming famous without an attendant cache of images to identify them.