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The 2011 Digital/Electronic Arts NYFA Fellows Exhibit at the New York Foundation for the Arts is a curious exhibition, not least because with all of its technological focus, some of its highlights are aimed at connecting with nature. I stopped by during this past weekend's Dumbo Arts Festival, an ev
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It’s very rare that museum directors or curators, when introducing a new show to a room full of writers and critics, say anything remotely thought-provoking or profound. Introducing the Rineke Dijkstra mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim, however, the museum director Richard Armstrong made a
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This week, the doctor says get out, walk around, and enjoy fall with the Art in Odd Places Festival on 14th street, an art walk through Harlem, and Open House New York, an amazing opportunity to see hundreds of notable architectural sites in the city. And don't forget the Hyperallergic third anniver
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CHICAGO — I’d cruise slick Chicago boy bodies at the infamous bathhouse Steamworks if I were a cisboy, or at least marginally passable as an effeminate dude. Suffice it to say that my gender isn’t welcome amidst the mist of those showers. My desire for dick instead led me to The Great Refusal: Takin
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The 200 workers who went on strike beginning in July to protest the potential fate of Italy's beloved film studios, Cinecittà, have returned to their jobs — at least temporarily.
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BERKELEY, California — As more of us can afford the tools historically only available to publishing houses, we have increasingly adopted them to share our stories and thoughts online. The invention of the printing press in the mid-1400s cheapened and quickened the arduous process of writing texts by
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LAFAYETTE, Indiana — How do we know where we are? Those of us who rely on smartphone maps to navigate know this is not just a theoretical question. We use visual cues in the built or natural environment and the safety of a map’s grid to reassure us that we are where we think we are. Anyone who’s see
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LOS ANGELES — Just a few miles from the concrete jungles of Los Angeles are its beaches, miles and miles of sand and silt. And just a few feet past those beaches is salt. Take a dip in the oceans of Los Angeles, and you'll inevitably notice it, whether it stings your eyes or touches your tongue. Sal
Opinion
This week, a new younger Mona Lisa, 1%ers using art as business collateral, image rights stupidity, Klaus in WSJ, a very green museum, Nazi Buddist space sculpture, a fake Basquiat, and more
Performance
When DD Dorvillier introduced an excerpt from her Danza Permanente at Judson Church last year, explaining that each of her four dancers would mirror one instrument in a Beethoven string quartet, a dance historian might have been puzzled. On the timeline of American concert dance, this sounded rather
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If anyone wants an indication of the ever-widening chasm between the art world and the museums, look no further than the career of Ralph Humphrey (1932 – 1990), a painter whose works calls into question every marker of progress brought to bear on art. The current exhibition at Gary Snyder—his first
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In a nervy move, the British-born, naturalized-American sculptor William Tucker is currently presenting an exhibition of two bodies of work separated by nearly forty years, a contrast which could very well have left the new work looking overblown and the old work feeling timorous.