Opinion
In a column for Artnet [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/ai-weiwei-under-arrest11-12-10.asp], veteran art critic and grumbly curmudgeon/cheerleader Charlie Finch responds to Ai Weiwei's recent house arrest with an ultimatum: the art world should stop having anything to do with China.
Art
Last Friday, the virtual art world became the real one as fellow Twitter followers met one another in reality, Facebook friends shook hands and a certain performance artist crossed the thresholds between digital and analog. During #TheSocialGraph's opening at Outpost in Ridgewood, a growing communit
Art
For #TheSocialGraph, I proposed a look at the next step in social media — telepresence, which, in its simplest form is a large-scale video chat meant to mimic the presence of someone in the room, and at its most complex can take the form of a roving, camera-enabled robot. Since almost as early as th
Art
Starting Wednesday, Brooklyn blogger and curator Brent Burket will be curating a three-day YouTube retrospective that mines the insanity of the online video juggernaut to find gems and germs that are sometimes painful to watch but always entertaining. His mission was to present an array of short vid
News
Open Source Gallery [http://open-source-gallery.org/], a storefront art space in South Slope, was damaged in a fire last friday and has been forced to relocate, The L Magazine reports [http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/11/15/south-slopes-open-source-gallery-partially-destroyed-in-
Opinion
Kanye West's intermittent tweets about art always make my day, so you can imagine my joy when I saw this tweet pop up in my feed. Click through for further commentary on Mark Rothko.
Interview
Last Saturday, #TheSocialGraph was honored to host the first-ever retrospective of Loren Munk’s popular online video channel, the James Kalm Report. Started as a conceptual performance of sorts, Munk and his alterego, James Kalm, have over the course of four and a half years garnered a cult followin
Art
If a meteor destroyed all of Queens, we'd probably be pretty freaked out. But might a virtual dragon destroying a virtual city ultimately upset more people? In an article entitled “Cataclysm Coming...” author Tom Chatfield explores what the update means [http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/05/cataclys
Art
As a preview to tonight's #TheSocialGraph exhibition opening at Outpost (6-9pm) check out one of the pieces featured in the show, Space Slave Trade's “Nuclear Tropics” (2010).
Interview
This is the second in a series of interviews with artists, writers, and personalities involved with #TheSocialGraph, which opens today (November 12, 6-9p). For more information, visit hyperalleric.com/thesocialgraph [http://hyperalleric.com/thesocialgraph]. Jennifer Dalton stepped right into the hea
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Vaguely-defined art startup Art.sy has found some pretty incredible backers, among them some of the biggest names in both contemporary art and tech. Larry Gagosian, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Russian heiress and contemporary art world butterfly Dasha Zhukova and Wendi Murdoch (wife of Rupert) are team
News
There's no excuse not to come out to New York’s greatest up-and-coming arts neighborhood this weekend. Not only is our own #TheSocialGraph [http://hyperallergic.createsend1.com/t/y/l/qjjhul/oghujluy/j] show opening this Friday night (6-9p) at Outpost, but emerging gallery Famous Accountants will be