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A View from the Easel, Part 13
This week, studios in Reno, Vancouver, Brooklyn and Denver.
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Show Your Support Now for Locked Out Sotheby's Art Handlers
Today is May Day, the international day of workers, and here at Hyperallergic we're proud to lend our support to Paddy Johnson of AFC, who is spearheading a petition [https://www.change.org/petitions/sotheby-s-offer-your-art-handlers-a-fair-contract] to show one of the world's largest auction houses
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Weaving Rainbows from Miles of Thread
LOS ANGELES — Everyone's done it at some point — crank up the water on the hose on a sunny day just to see that wonderful prism of light. Now, Mexican-born artist Gabriel Dawe does us one better by bringing rainbows to life, one thread at a time.
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Occupying Minds, Not Streets
Mounting an exhibition anywhere in the neighborhood of occupation aesthetics can be precarious nowadays, for people are increasingly fed up with the same reiterations of ideological conceptualism and the ultra–politically correct, derivative works that skim the surface of real world problems precipi
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Your Chance to See One of William Wegman's Dogs Dance
If you've ever wanted to see a dancing dog — and not just any dog, but one of William Wegman's Weimaraners — you're about to get your chance. Choreographer Karole Armitage has teamed up with a handful of visual artists, including Wegman, Will Cotton, Kalup Linzy and Aïda Ruilova, for a dance-cum-per
Opinion
George Orwell's Essay on Creativity: Writers are Complex
LOS ANGELES — Orwell's "Why I Write" is a gem, and I'm glad it made it into Longform's recent Top 50.
Opinion
Enter Unpaid Arts Invoices Into the World's Longest Invoice
LOS ANGELES — Expanding on the question as to while most artists are poor, one project explores who isn't getting paid what they're owed.
Announcement
Inaugural Photoville Comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park June 22–July 1
This summer United Photo Industries is taking the next step in helping to create an extraordinary global community of artists. Working in partnership with local galleries, national institutions and an international network of curatorial partners, United Photo industries is building Photoville — a un
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How To Talk About Art: Jeff Koons Edition
With plans in the offing for Jeff Koons’s astounding “Train” to dangle preposterously over the heedless noggins of visitors to the High Line, it might just be a good time to polish up your talking points regarding the greatest of all kitsch artists.
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WTC1 Is Officially the Tallest Building in New York
WTC1 may have reached the 100-floor mark on April 2, but today, April 30, it has officially surpassed the Empire State Building (1,250 ft./381 m) as the tallest building in New York.
Art
An Arts Festival on the Prairie
A few weekends ago, I drove to Urbana, Illinois, to take in the Boneyard Arts Festival, a four-day program of open studios, readings, concerts and performances.
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Thank You to Our April Sponsors
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