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Attack of the Ronald Reagan Statues
It's the centennial of the birth of the 40th US President, Ronald Reagan, and coast to coast statues of the Old Gipper are making news but for very different reasons.
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Occupying the Window at Printed Matter
Normally crammed with artist's books, zines and other publications, Printed Matter's storefront window on 10 Avenue and 22 street is now home to art from Occupy Wall Street. Known for using their window spaces in the past to host exhibitions, Printed Matter has lent their window to OWS to display wh
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Required Reading
This week, the lowdown on Mark di Suvero's radical history, Terry Richardson's parents, street art in Cairo, Miami and without spray paint, word clouds and some erotic Austrian art of yesteryear … and some other great links.
Art
Los Angeles Performance Art: Now and Then
LOS ANGELES — October marked the beginning of the Pacific Standard Time onslaught, a collaboration between 60 institutions to commemorate and celebrate the birth of the Los Angeles art scene from 1945 to 1980. LA Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is among a host of venues invested in translating the p
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Things Heat Up at Last Wednesday's Sotheby's Protest, 4 Protesters Arrested
In one of the biggest protests against Sotheby's lockout of the art handlers of Teamsters Local 814, over 200 people, including members of Occupy Wall Street and students from Hunter College and NYU, came to the auction house's offices on Manhattan's Upper East Side to demand the fair treatment of w
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Listening to the Voice of Diane Arbus
It’s not often that we get to be present for a posthumous lecture given by the deceased being honored. An Evening with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel, presented at the School of Visual Arts in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation, was just that. Out of the pure darkness of a hushed theater came
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Graffiti Over Easy: Losing My Faith On Mercer Street
Last Sunday, I found myself sitting with my head in my hands on a tiny stoop on Mercer Street, wondering how to even begin to process witnessing Gallery 89's exhibition of graffiti writer AVONE (Destroy & Rebuild), American Graffiti. Not a graffiti art show in a pop-up gallery as promised, it was an
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An Insider's Guide to Detroit’s Contemporary Art Scene
DETROIT — The rumors are true: Detroit’s contemporary art scene thrives. The rumors are also true: [insert standard boilerplate about Detroit’s struggles]. For my first article for Hyperallergic, I provide a brief guide to Detroit’s contemporary art scene.
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All That Is Solid, Etcetera, A Review of Cattelan at Guggenheim
Maurizio Cattelan’s All explodes on impact: all noise, heat and light, followed by gradually dissipating trails of smoke. The Italian anti-artist’s anti-retrospective at the Guggenheim, as everyone has heard, hangs in toto from the oculus of the Wright ramp.
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Admitted to UNESCO Palestinians Reveal World Heritage Wish List
On Monday, Palestinians were finally admitted to the cultural body of the United Nations, UNESCO, as a full member. The move, which ignited the ire of the United States and Israel, allows the Palestinian government to apply for historic monuments and locations to be classified as World Heritage Site
Opinion
Guggenheim's Mind-blowing Maurizio Cattelan Installation
We knew Mauricio Cattelan's retrospective at New York's Guggenheim was going to be an attention grabber, but the installation tweeted today by the museum demonstrates that the curatorial team has taken the idea to a whole different level.
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Scandinavian Duo Provides Meta Start to Performa 2011
Tuesday night's premiere of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's "Happy Days in the Art World" at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts kicked off this year's Performa "new visual art performance biennial." A commissioned work, the piece was clearly a work of theatre and not performance art,