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Report from San Diego: Ai Weiwei, Sam Gilliam, Helen Pashgian
Prospect 2011 continues at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego until July 10, 2011
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Calling All Mail Artists, Exhibition on the Way
Seven weeks ago, Hyperallergic began collecting Mail Art for our Mail Art Bulletin [http://hyperallergic.com/tag/mail-art-bulletin/]. Now, we are super excited to announce a new leg of our Mail Art project! In tandem with Northside Open Studios, Hyperallergic will be curating a Mail Artshow from Jun
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Realism, Surrealism and Infographics at Williamsburg 2:ND Fridays
This past Friday May 13th marked Williamsburg 2:ND Fridays, a night of gallery openings and exhibition unveilings. I trekked around the neighborhood from the far north Causey Contemporary all the way down to Like the Spice gallery and checked out the shows. Here are my findings, in photo format.
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UPDATED: Ai Weiwei Allowed Family Visit, Reportedly in Good Health
At around 11:30 PM EST, the AP reported that detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was allowed a family visit with his wife Lu Qing at an undisclosed location. The artist is reportedly in good health.
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Mail Art Bulletin: It's All About the Envelope
It's only natural that some mail art should focus on the envelope as its an integral part of what "mail art" is. So, today we're posting a collection of envelopes we've received for the Mail Art Bulletin.
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What to Do This Weekend: Williamsburg Gallery Night, Man Bartlett, Su Friedrich, Seven on Seven
Can't figure out how to fill up your culture diet this weekend? We've got your back, with Williamsburg Gallery Night going down tonight and Man Bartlett's 140 hour-long Berlin performance streaming all weekend, plus Su Friedrich's MICROSCOPE Gallery opening and the Seven on Seven art-tech collaborat
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Big Name Artists Hit the Street With Bowery Murals
As part of the Festival of Ideas For the New City anchored by the New Museum, a group of major artists have sprinkled the Bowery with murals. In collaboration with the Art Production Fund, painters including Mary Heilmann, Richard Prince and Jacqueline Humphries created murals for the roll-down meta
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White House Discontinues Practice of Staged Photos
Here's something you probably didn't know. Since at least the Reagan era, still cameras have not been allowed to photograph the US President giving televised speeches at the White House. Now, the White House says things wil change, but what the future arrangement will be for still photographers is n
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Festival of Ideas Animates a Gentrified Bowery
Obama laid a wreath at the base of the former World Trade Towers right after Osama had been buried at sea. And, as if on cue the utopian “Festival of Ideas For the New City” launched, vowing to “harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to
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The Lifecycle of an Indie Film Project: Making El Cadáver Exquisito
When director Victor Ruano was a teenager, he wanted to make a movie that could reflect in time, sound and images what that still painting said to him. In his mind, it stood as a description of certain aspects of his society and the country of El Salvador. He would dare to say, that in a sense El Ca
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Thief Steals Artifacts From Forbidden City
Think Beijing's historic Forbidden City is pretty well guarded? Well, you'd be right, the place is infested with security. Yet that didn't stop a thief from grabbing $1.5 million worth of artifacts from the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City.
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Manhattan Museums Play Monopoly
This week has been pretty huge for New York City's museum community. Newly announced shake-ups mean that the Metropolitan Museum will be taking over the Whitney's uptown Breuer building as the younger institution heads downtown to a new Renzo Piano-designed space. The Museum of Modern Art is buying