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Our office is open all weekend (12–6p) for the Presents: Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ [http://www.northsideopenstudios.org/] exhibition, which is part of L Magazine's massive Northside Festival [http://www.thelmagazine.com/blogs/NorthsideFestivalNews/] in Greenpoint and Williamsburg
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A curator's job isn't just to shuffle some art around in a gallery space. In many ways, curators are the glue that hold artistic communities together, by organizing group events, serving as hubs of communication and connecting people and groups on local, national and international levels. In this Cu
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Editor's note: Vermin.me is a worldwide sculptural installation initiated by Jamie Burmeister. The Nebraska-bsed artist mailed us a box of three clay figures and we asked Janelle Grace, the London-based managing editor of Hyperallergic LABS, to take one of the figures on a trip.
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You've all heard of the Chinese painters who get paid to make exact copies of the masterpieces of Western art. Well now China is going after entire towns rather than paintings. Architects in Guangdong are planning to make a replica of a scenic Austrian village, as nordic as can be, set right in thei
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Minutes before the much-admired postmodern choreographer Trisha Brown was to stage her early 1973 “Roof Piece” on Thursday, June 9, the High Line’s urban park rangers and the stage managers of Trisha Brown’s Dance Company began to panic. An upstaging performance by a potentially show-stopping tornad
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Today's Curator Diary from Jason Andrew exposes the nuts and bolts of putting together an exhibition. Andrew works with an art handler to install pieces in the developing Jack Tworkov show, frets over catalogue corrections and reaches out to area artists and students. Curating isn't all glamorous op
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This Friday kicks off a pretty epic weekend in Williamsburg. Along with the Northside Festival, Northside Open Studios will showcase our neighborhood's art community, from artist's studios to gallery shows and guerrilla events. Here are our picks for what not to miss.
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As president of the legendary American Abstract Artists and an accomplished talent who creates thoroughly abstract paintings, Don Voisine is not someone you'd normally associate with mail art, a medium that is dominated by artists who integrate text or collage into their work.
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Today in the coolest thing ever: designer Asif Khan has created a kind of generative architecture that actually floats. Helium-infused bubbles sprout from pods on the floor, float up towards the ceiling and are caught by nearly invisible fish nets, creating an ethereal canopy.
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Art Fag City associate editor Will Brand responded to my review of curator Lindsay Howard's Speed Show Awareness of Everything on Facebook, and the conversation quickly turned to the intricacies and etiquette involved in exhibiting internet art.
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The Tony Shafrazi Gallery is currently showing a rare collection of 95 rare Soviet Constructivist film posters, circa 1920-33, and a model of Vladimir Tatlin's influential "Monument for the Third International" (1920/1967). These gems of early 20th C. graphic design were cutting edge for their time
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This Curator Diary is an editorial feature documenting curator and local Bushwick hero Jason Andrew’s trip to Asheville, North Carolina to mount an ambitious exhibition of work by Jack Tworkov. The column will explore the day-to-day process of curating, a behind-the-scenes look into what a curator a