Interview
From Landscape to Abstraction
Over the course of her 35-year career, Altoon Sultan has gone completely end-to-end across the landscape-abstraction continuum.
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Art Rx: Art Fairs … Again
This week, the brand new New York art fair weekend has finally arrived and your doctor is worried.
Art
A Performance That Should Be Remembered
Whenever I find myself strolling in the hutongs near Gulou and see the entrance of Bed Bar, images of Liang Tao's 2005 cross-gender performance come to mind. I met her that same year in the 798 art district, just after her performance "Madhouse in Paradise" at Marella Gallery. For that piece she bui
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Helsinki Says “No” to the Guggenheim
Members of Helsinki's City Board have rejected the long-standing proposal to build a branch of the Guggenheim Museum on the city's waterfront. Eight of the board's fifteen members voted today against furthering the proposal to the City Council for consideration.
Art
Occupy Is Back!
Yesterday’s May Day protest in NYC might have failed to shut the system down, but it did successfully galvanize Occupy’s disparate interest groups into one powerful amalgamation, proving the movement’s lack of cohesion, more accurately its complexity, is a strength that defines it.
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Jerry Saltz Slams Tonight's Auction of Edvard Munch's Scream
Today, New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss tonight's Sotheby's auction of Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Saltz isn't a fan of the circus surrounding tonight's sale and he dislikes that the chatter is mostly about the projected price tag and not the art itself.
Art
Words and Images Tango Downtown
National Poetry Month reminds us that some words can boogie, and dance they do at two exhibitions on the Lower East Side. A fiery tango between word and image takes place in solo shows by both Natalie Czech and Jeff Gibson. This tango — like when a caption twists an image’s meaning, or an illustrati
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A View from the Easel, Part 13
This week, studios in Reno, Vancouver, Brooklyn and Denver.
Opinion
Show Your Support Now for Locked Out Sotheby's Art Handlers
Today is May Day, the international day of workers, and here at Hyperallergic we're proud to lend our support to Paddy Johnson of AFC, who is spearheading a petition [https://www.change.org/petitions/sotheby-s-offer-your-art-handlers-a-fair-contract] to show one of the world's largest auction houses
Art
Weaving Rainbows from Miles of Thread
LOS ANGELES — Everyone's done it at some point — crank up the water on the hose on a sunny day just to see that wonderful prism of light. Now, Mexican-born artist Gabriel Dawe does us one better by bringing rainbows to life, one thread at a time.
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Occupying Minds, Not Streets
Mounting an exhibition anywhere in the neighborhood of occupation aesthetics can be precarious nowadays, for people are increasingly fed up with the same reiterations of ideological conceptualism and the ultra–politically correct, derivative works that skim the surface of real world problems precipi
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Your Chance to See One of William Wegman's Dogs Dance
If you've ever wanted to see a dancing dog — and not just any dog, but one of William Wegman's Weimaraners — you're about to get your chance. Choreographer Karole Armitage has teamed up with a handful of visual artists, including Wegman, Will Cotton, Kalup Linzy and Aïda Ruilova, for a dance-cum-per