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Required Reading
This week, internet access is a human right, new Caravaggios, Mali's historic sites are threatened, challenge to NY's 1971 loft law, Philly's Rodin Museum reopens, artist bequests and more.
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Something Special About Her, Eva Besnyö at the Jeu de Paume
The photographs of Eva Besnyö (1910–2003) are hardly known in America. This fact was made clear to me before my recent trip to Paris, when no one recommended that I go see an exhibition of her work at the Jeu de Paume.
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Single Point Perspective: Cardboard in the Dark
In his Village Voice season preview for fall 2000, Jim Hoberman predicted that the upcoming premiere of the New York Film Festival would be its “most controversial opening night ever — Lars von Trier's love-it-or-loathe-it Björk-scored musical tragedy Dancer in the Dark.”
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Single Point Perspective: Where Does Illusion End and Reality Begin?
There is the American flag, and there is the painting "Flag" (1954–55) by Jasper Johns, which is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Flying over federal courthouses, churches, schools, post offices, lawns, construction sites and, in the months after 9/11, nearly ever taxi in New
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Single Point Perspective: A New Series
Art and life intersect constantly in an infinitely flexible matrix. Those intersections will be the focus of Single Point Perspective, a new series from Hyperallergic Weekend.
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A Forgotten Piece of Santa Fe Sky
While in Santa Fe for the Currents New Media Festival, artist Jason Varone found an early James Turrell skyspace on the grounds of the Center for Contemporary Arts.
Opinion
What Does Meaningful Engagement with Public Art Look Like?
After "Statue Porn," my first post for Hyperallergic, was published earlier this year, some commenters responded by asking what a quality interaction with public art might look like. It's easy to spot silly or sexual interactions, but what are examples of people engaging with public art in a more se
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Santa Fe Grows Its New Media Festival
SANTA FE, New Mexico — Two weekends ago, I had the privilege of visiting and speaking at Currents, Santa Fe's annual festival of new media art. Situated in the Railyard district, a growing gallery community that hosts SITE Santa Fe, Zane Bennett Contemporary and others, the majority of the festival
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Court Ruling Further Delays Christo’s Colorado Project
A judge has halted ROAR's lawsuit against Christo's "Over the River," but only so that a previous appeal of the project can be reviewed.
Opinion
Nightscapes of Light
Joel James Devlin creates light-trail photographs of gorgeous natural landscapes, adding a touch of light that slithers along rivers, lakes, the sky.
Art
Even in a Digital Universe You Should Keep Things Simple
World on a Wire brings together seven digital artists in a show displaying fleeting moments of the artists' larger bodies of work. It's difficult to pull thematic coherence from such an disparate group of cohorts especially when the title derives from Rainer Fassbinder's 1973 sci-fi film set in a cy
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The Sensations of Presence
MIAMI — Strong in the traditions of European and Carribean art, The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale has an array of standout exhibitions that include the work of painter William Glackens and a collection of ceramics by Pablo Picasso. What left an impression during a recent visit, however, was the work