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Life Imitating Art: Melting Clocks
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Art Fair as Group Exhibition
Despite the best efforts of art critics and reporters, it remains inadvisable to talk about any art fair as an exhibition, or a precisely curated experience. They’re more like avalanches of information from which viewers can filter out their own message, in the manner of an aesthetic Ouija board. Ho
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Artistic Bootlegging Begins in Cincinnati and Ends in China
KANSAS CITY, MO — If Chairman Mao were actually a monkey with prison tattoos, and if Alphonso Taft didn't have that bump on the left side of his forehead, artists Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis wouldn’t have had as much fun playing with form in their whimsical two-person exhibition at Red Star S
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Native American Iconography Meets Modernist Aesthetic and Material
My first impression coming into Jeffrey Gibson’s solo exhibition at Marc Straus in the Lower East Side was one of a refined sensual pleasure with a complex edge. Vibrant color painted in geometric shapes on animal hide stretched over trapezoidal forms and ironing boards is the initial entree to an i
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Corcoran Isn't Selling Its Historic Building, But May Seek Institutional Partners
Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art will be remaining in its historic building after all, backing off from plans it had been developing to sell its aging Beaux-Arts structure, which it has resided in since 1897, and move out to the city's suburbs.
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A New Home for Art in Atlantic City
Last month, a large-scale public art exhibition opened quietly in Atlantic City. With commissioned pieces by Kiki Smith, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Robert Barry, and John Roloff, Artlantic, despite its silly-sounding name, boasts an impressive lineup of artists. Now the question is how to get the art
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Art Rx
This week, if you're feeling a little sniffly or sick, the doctor has just the thing. Try an exhibition opening or two, a conversation about art and memory, or maybe a tribute to Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Photos from Miami: Artspace & Hyperallergic Sunset Cocktails
Thank you to everyone who joined us for a lovely cocktail party on the beach last Friday in Miami Beach. Hosted by Artspace and Hyperallergic, the party at the Untitled Art Fair welcomed over 300 people who enjoyed a drink in the bar and an opportunity to explore the art fair and wander onto the out
Interview
After the Occupation: A Talk with a Cooper Union Protester
Following up on the news that the students who took up residence in the Cooper Union clock tower have ended their occupation, Hyperallergic spoke with Casey Gollan, one of the occupiers, about why they came down after a week and what they feel they've accomplished.
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MOCA, AAWW and Hyperallergic Present the Ugly Sweater Holiday Party
Dust the mothballs off your favorite ugly holiday sweater! Hyperallergic is celebrating the holidays with the Museum of Chinese in America and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop at our Ugly Sweater Party on Tuesday, December 18th at 8pm and we want you to be there.
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Cooper Union Students End Their Occupation
The 11 Cooper Union students who barricaded themselves in the school's Foundation Building clock tower have emerged, ending their occupation a week after it began.
Opinion
Get Ready for the Flood of 3D Printed Objects
I have a prediction. In the next few years, the art world will be awash in 3D printed objects. I noticed a number this year at the Miami art fairs but they were certainly limited in quantity.