Opinion
PHILADELPHIA — Unlike too many pop artists, Chinese artist Liu Bolin has managed to retain a balance, or maybe a synergy, between popular throwaway aesthetics and the conceptual, while keeping the work readable to a wide audience. His work is designed to go viral, but it isn’t as shallow as a LOLCAT
Art
I’ve been a pretty huge fan of sculptor Michelle Lopez ever since her first show at the Simon Preston gallery on the Lower east side. When I found out a couple weeks ago about her impending second solo show at the gallery, I was pretty nervous. Granted, I shouldn’t have been, but let neurotic bygone
Opinion
The Bay Area is full of artistic hypocrisy this month. On one side of the San Francisco Bay, two commissions by artist Tom Otterness are on hold because of a tasteless art video he did in the 1970s, and on the other side of the same bay, a Palestinian children's art show is cancelled because it piss
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BEIJING — It's a four hour train from Seoul — two trains, to be precise, as a transfer is necessary. With a population of a little over a million people, it's the sixth-largest city in South Korea. That city is Gwangju, whose name means, literally, the bright province. It's a city of flashing neon l
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Last Friday night, artist Man Bartlett opened up his Bushwick apartment on Myrtle avenue for what he conceived as a networked pot-luck extravaganza called "#FEEDFEED." A self-admittedly low-brow version of Relational Aesthetics, the event invited participants to contribute a meme or internet-inspire
Interview
Pippin Barr works and teaches at the Center for Computer Game Research at IT University in Copenhagen, and readers of Hyperallergic will know him as the guy who created "The Artist Is Present" video game, which has already become an online sensation. I caught up with Barr online to ask him about "Th
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Among the surprises at the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, is an exquisite room of early Matisses that will blow your mind.
Art
On a rainy Thursday in Chelsea, I could hear the cast of the Real Housewives screeching in horror and running for their emergency stash of botox as I walked through visual artist and alternative space powerhouse Martha Wilson's new exhibition I have become my own worst fear at PPOW Gallery. Characte
Opinion
This week … insights into Ai Weiwei's photos, photos of Japan's gangs, aesthetics of interactive space, William Gibson on cities, fake Guggenheims, superhero costumes, art thefts in Toronto, vintage street art & graffiti spots in New York.
Art
On Tuesday the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a new historic district surrounding Borough Hall in downtown Brooklyn. Dubbed the Borough Hall Skyscraper District, the area encompasses 21 architecturally distinct skyscrapers and office buildings that pepper Court, Remsen, Montague, Livings
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Today, we opened our office to three artists who are the core of Seeking Kali, a collaborative project by William Evertson (US), Ria Vanden Eynde (Belgium) and Susan Shulman (Canada).
News
Keith Haring: 1978-1982, the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-loved American artists of last century will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 13 through August 5, 2012.