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Art nerds of the world, rejoice! Flavin Judd, the son of famed minimalist sculptor Donald Judd, is answering questions about his father's work and its conservation.
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Are there too many works by Norman Rockwell at the White House? Probably, but last Friday US President Barack Obama took time out of his schedule to discuss the 1963 painting by Norman Rockwell, titled "The Problem We All Live With," with the representatives of the Norman Rockwell Museum and the wom
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Artists in developing areas of the world reside in environments where social and cultural complexities are at the fore of conversation. As a result, many artists in these regions carry with them an inherent social awareness that infiltrates their artwork.
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After a two weeks on the road, I'm back in Brooklyn and again at the helm of Hyperallergic.
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When Hyperallergic editor Hrag V. asked me to guest edit this site in his absence a few weeks ago and bring a little bit of the Crescent City to the Brooklyn-based blogazine scene, I thought it might be an uneasy fit: after all, as A.J. Liebling memorably said in "The Earl of Louisiana" (though perh
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This summer the Studio Museum in Harlem is hosting five extensive exhibitions that hold true to its mission and bring both established artists and those in training under the same roof. Packed into the museum’s intimate space on 125th Street, the shows offer a tremendous range of mostly thought-prov
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The video opens with the sound of the tide, and a tight close-up of the artist bringing a stone from a shoreline to her mouth. She licks it slowly. The act, along with the sound of the sea, is both primal and sensual. The ritualized action is repeated, establishing a deep connection between the arti
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Peter Nadin’s “First Mark” opened at Gavin Brown’s enterprise on June 29th, the first time the artist has exhibited his work in this country since 1992. There's been massive coverage of Nadin’s “comeback,” but is the show grabbing headlines simply because of Nadin's backstory and the list of boldfac
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Carmageddon 2011 might chiefly be remembered as the big transportation nightmare that wasn't [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carmageddon-20110719,0,5035874.story]: an accelerated work schedule, coupled with a couple million people in the Los Angeles area realizing they didn't need to drive
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The specter of communism currently haunts the New Museum [http://www.newmuseum.org/] in its summer "bloc-buster" exhibition “Ostalgia.” [http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/440/] It’s an ambitious project that consumes most of the galleries with a swirling conglomeration of disparate mediums, artis
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As geopsychically wondrous [http://hyperallergic.com/29365/a-geopsychic-tour-of-new-orleans/] as New Orleans is, it's not exactly the most cutting edge of places; in fact, even in these days of instantaneous communication it sometimes takes ideas and trends a little longer to make their way down her
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The Bronx Museum's Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program has helped emerging artists in the New York area navigate the business side of art since the 1980s. AIM is now celebrating its 30th anniversary with two joint exhibitions at the Bronx Museum and Wave Hill: Bronx Calling: The First AIM Bienn