Art
Marfa to Vegas: The Good, Bad and Ugly
A road trip that encounters all kinds of art from Marfa to El Paso to Vegas.
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Tiny Food and Tiny Galaxies
LOS ANGELES — I've been noticing more tiny things in my computer these days. No, they're not ants or crumbs. It's art, folks. Just art writ small.
Opinion
New Tumblr Looks at Art in the Process of Installation
LOS ANGELES — There's only one thing I love more than art installations. And that's watching an art installation come together. And now there's a tumblelog for that.
Art
Forms of Life: Breathing New Life into Traditional Genres
Radiator Gallery's From Life is a savvy exploration of how new technologies, current events and aesthetic concerns can breathe new life into traditional genres.
Opinion
New Aesthetic Watch: Google BBS
LOS ANGELES — Look out, world, the New Aesthetic is coming. Or is it? We here at Hyperallergic thought we might start collecting more evidence of the tide of new aesthetics sweeping our tweeting-clicking-instagramming.
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Charges Dropped Against Chinese Artist-Activist Wu Yuren
LOS ANGELES — Chinese installation artist and activist Wu Yuren, who was arrested on questionable charges last year, has reported on Twitter that as of March 30 the charges have been dropped and that he has received his passport back.
Art
Art Rx
From Bushwick to Chelsea, from the Upper to Lower East Side, we have a list of shows you need to see.
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Museum Plans to Burn 1,000 Art Works to Protest Cuts
Various news services are reporting that a museum in Italy is waging an "art war" in protest of funding cuts and they've started burning 1,000 artworks.
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Dealer Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Egyptian Antiquities into US
A Brooklyn antiquities dealer Mousa Khouli, 38, pleaded guilty today to smuggling Egyptian cultural property into the United States and making a false statement to law enforcement authorities.
Art
Controversial Afro-Swedish Artist Speaks, "It's a Disturbing Picture But It's Also a Disturbing Subject"
In the last few days, Afro-Swedish artist Makode Linde has learned the power of the viral web. His controversial cake performance at Stockholm's Moderna Museet has ricocheted around the world and has garnered reactions of all types from support of his edgy gesture to raise awareness about female gen
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Turning the Seven Year Itch into a Retrospective
LOS ANGELES — Most artist retrospectives occur decades after an artist's career really takes off, once their name has been recognized in the annals of art world lore. But long time collaborators Chan and Mann — Audrey Chan and Elana Mann, respectively — have organized their own retrospective to reco
Opinion
NASA Captures the Motion of the Ocean
LOS ANGELES — These visualizations out of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, dubbed Perpetual Ocean, show the currents of the oceans.