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Governor Paul LePage's decision to remove a labor mural from Maine’s Dept of Labor was met with an avalanche of messages critical of the Republican leader's need to appear more pro-business. According to AP's analysis, 92 percent of the individual letters opposed the governor's action. [HuffPost [ht
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It's difficult not to compare the Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) of two weeks ago and Northside Open Studios (NOS) this past weekend. Where BOS felt like a small, tightly knit group of art world wanderers, NOS was more dispersed; more approachable, yet also more isolated. Still, there were some great s
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As part of the Williamsburg Walks and this weekend's Northside Festival, our favorite north Brooklyn migrating gallery, the Ugly Art Room, set up shop on Bedford Ave with what they are calling Opening Rejection.
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After all the curating is done, there's usually a party to look forward to — the exhibition opening. In this last Curator Diary, Jason Andrew attends his own opening party at Black Mountain College, chats up visitors, meets painter Donald Sultan's mom and hits the town afterward.
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We had a great turn out last night for the opening of Presents: Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ. Over a hundred people came through to take a look at the 120+ submissions from around the world.
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Our office is open all weekend (12–6p) for the Presents: Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ [http://www.northsideopenstudios.org/] exhibition, which is part of L Magazine's massive Northside Festival [http://www.thelmagazine.com/blogs/NorthsideFestivalNews/] in Greenpoint and Williamsburg
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A curator's job isn't just to shuffle some art around in a gallery space. In many ways, curators are the glue that hold artistic communities together, by organizing group events, serving as hubs of communication and connecting people and groups on local, national and international levels. In this Cu
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Editor's note: Vermin.me is a worldwide sculptural installation initiated by Jamie Burmeister. The Nebraska-bsed artist mailed us a box of three clay figures and we asked Janelle Grace, the London-based managing editor of Hyperallergic LABS, to take one of the figures on a trip.
Opinion
You've all heard of the Chinese painters who get paid to make exact copies of the masterpieces of Western art. Well now China is going after entire towns rather than paintings. Architects in Guangdong are planning to make a replica of a scenic Austrian village, as nordic as can be, set right in thei
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Minutes before the much-admired postmodern choreographer Trisha Brown was to stage her early 1973 “Roof Piece” on Thursday, June 9, the High Line’s urban park rangers and the stage managers of Trisha Brown’s Dance Company began to panic. An upstaging performance by a potentially show-stopping tornad
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Today's Curator Diary from Jason Andrew exposes the nuts and bolts of putting together an exhibition. Andrew works with an art handler to install pieces in the developing Jack Tworkov show, frets over catalogue corrections and reaches out to area artists and students. Curating isn't all glamorous op
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This Friday kicks off a pretty epic weekend in Williamsburg. Along with the Northside Festival, Northside Open Studios will showcase our neighborhood's art community, from artist's studios to gallery shows and guerrilla events. Here are our picks for what not to miss.