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Are Artists the Next Best Business Venture? Connecticut Is Banking on It
A new arts funding plan is brewing in Connecticut that places precedence on cultural and arts programs that contribute to the community and attract new businesses.
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How Do Photographers Spend Their Time? Fact vs Fiction
The romance of photography means that our perception of what photographers actually do is distorted. These pie charts may help correct some popular misconceptions.
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Who Owns the Color Red?
Can a person own a color? Yves Klein may say yes, but Yves Saint Laurent begs to differ.
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Good Art, Shame About the Written Statement
CHICAGO — There’s often a tug of war going in between what’s in a work of art and what you are told about it. So when I saw the exhibition Turnin’ the Tip at Chicago’s A+D gallery, my first response was to the work that I was looking at it, independent of catalogue essays or wall text: big black and
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Required Reading
This week, Damien Hirst's global spot challenge, TJ Clark on Leonardo, Cairo's art scene, Green & Knight on PST, de Kooning conversation, Queer theory, vandalism as art criticism, imagining a drunk gay Jenny Holzer twitterfeed and an Abby Road spoof.
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A New Year, Same Type of Tired Corporate Critique
Ringing in the New Year, the Winkleman Gallery's group exhibition Corporations Are People Too might prove that 2011's artistic obsession with corporate power, the economic crisis, and abandoned office buildings with unintentionally ironic posters will continue into 2012. And I'm not entirely convinc
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Looking Back After China Takes Over
A few years ago, artist Guy Laramee began his The Great Wall series, which imagines a 23rd century when the Chinese empire has overthrown its American rival. His artist statement is a piece of science fiction and it sets the stage for his sculptural works that tap into American anxieties about empir
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Museum at FIT Maintains Silence Over Lev Leviev Sponsorship
Here at Hyperallergic we have been covering the on-going controversy surrounding fashion icon Daphne Guinness' mega show at the museum at FIT. Back in November we reported that one of the sponsors of the exhibition, diamond and settlement mogul Leviev Extraordinary Diamonds, was facing accusations o
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Weekly Art Rx
Welcome to 2012! As soon as the clock struck midnight, not only did the new year begin, but the art world also got a shot of adrenaline as January brings in more exhibition openings than we can keep track of.
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Clyfford Still Painting Gets Lap Dance in Denver
My Armenian Christmas present came one day early this year when someone emailed me this, "A 36-year-old Denver woman, apparently drunk, leaned against an iconic Clyfford Still painting worth more than $30 million last week, punched it, slid down it and urinated on herself..."
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Art, Science and the Bastardization of Nature
The Skybridge Art & Sound Space inside the Eugene Lang College currently has an installation on view until January 31, 2012. Artifix Mori, by John Ensor Parker and Jason Krugman, both visiting artists in the visual arts program at Eugene Lang, is paradoxically whimsical and ominous in its collision
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Kids Transform Museum Into Dotted Wonderland
The Queen of Dotted Art, Yayoi Kusama gave young visitors to an Australian museum a chance to create art by placing dots in a pristine white room.