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Jeff Koons' Pseudo-Spiritual Explanation of Art on Colbert Nation
Koons was on Colbert last night and his discussion of art came across as pseudo-spiritual at best.
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Sustainable Buddhas Made of Cardboard
LOS ANGELES —Travel around East and Southeast Asia enough and you'll invariably come across at least one big Buddha. Cut from stone or marble or any other substantive material, they dominate the room with their presence. Then there's Kobe-based sculptor Yuji Honbori.
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A View from the Easel
This week, studios in California, Illinois, Rhode Island and New Zealand.
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The Online Transformation of the New Museum
Here at Hyperallergic we remember the days when The New Museum, and their then chief curator Richard Flood, were most commonly associated with an unfortunate statement that equated bloggers with prairie dogs. Those out-of-touch days are no longer and as fate would have it, Mr. Flood even blogs!
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Are You Talking About Rembrandt the Artist or the Tooth Whitener?
Since his passing in 1669, Rembrandt has had a vibrant second life selling cigars and teeth whitening kits. His "artsploitation" — like that of monk turned liqueur Fra Angelico — offers a cautionary tale in a world searching for untapped and undefended brand equity. Social media reveals the odd cult
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A Surprisingly Coherent Art Fair in Upstate New York
A few of the locals intermingled with the art world of New York City and Miami in the huge Barn-like building of Basilica Hudson on the outskirts of the town where NADA held its 2012 Hudson art fair. The vibe is relaxed — detached from the frenzied energy of New York art gatherings — stirring genuin
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Dog Art
There are important questions that art world thinkers have asked themselves for decades. Why should art be confined to the white cube? When does something become art? How do you define art? These are important questions to ask, but I am going to ignore them for this photo essay on dog art. Are these
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Six Things I Learned — and One I Didn’t — from Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
Last week, I trekked up to Lincoln Center to see part of The Clock, Christian Marclay's film collage that has had the art world's knickers in a twist for about a year and a half now.
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The Joe Paterno Statue and Questions of Public Art
In light of Jerry Sandusky's recent conviction for sexually abusing 10 boys, the statue of Joe Paterno, the former football coach of Pennsylvania State University who failed to alert authorities to the abuse, outside the school's Beaver Stadium has quickly become an extremely controversial symbol. A
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Fuck Paintings #NSFW …As If You Needed to Know That
Sex is fundamental to our existence, but expressing it always involves some pussyfooting around — otherwise we’d have to come to grips with gonads and gestation, when fulfilling our biological purpose is the last thing on our mind. Even the word "sex" is often too straightforward, so we rely on euph
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A Townhouse of Punk
From now through September 12, upon entering the gallery Luxembourg & Dayan, which is housed in a townhouse on the Upper East Side, you will see a series of colorful paintings based on patterns of lace. Deeply beautiful, the paintings work well in the posh, pristine interior — they seem to fit their