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Even on a cloudy day, it's beautiful to get an opportunity to look across the East River at Manhattan from Astoria, especially when the view remains unobstructed by buildings, warehouses, elevated tracks, and all that other urban detritus. Socrates Sculpture Park provides an extraordinary view that,
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Beijing-based writer and art professional Melanie Wang brought to our attention the upcoming November 17th court case of Wu Yuren, a Chinese photographer and installation artist whose provocative work and political activism have earned him the nickname “Little Ai [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo
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The Underbelly Project [http://hyperallergic.com/11758/underbelly-project-nyc/] caused a stir last week both because of its expansive murals and because of its politics. We've argued [http://hyperallergic.com/11758/underbelly-project-nyc/] that Underbelly was a step backward for street art, and it a
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One of the most fun parts of Asia Society's Yoshitomo Nara retrospective [http://hyperallergic.com/12092/yoshitomo-nara-asia-society/] is that the galleries are soundtracked: the artist's paintings, drawings and sculptures are accompanied by a selection of handpicked tunes. Music more than anything
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A generic survey of New York’s Lower East Side galleries [http://www.artcat.com/neighborhoods/6], perused at random on the first week of November, 2010, including observations from a viewer completely outside the art world. Jerry Saltz often ridicules artists for not going to see enough shows [http:
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Yoshitomo Nara's retrospective Nobody's Fool at Asia Society is what you would get if art museums loosened up and let themselves have some fun. After climbing the institution's glassy modern stairs, what greets visitors isn't a succession of white-walled galleries but a mishmash of wood-walled cubbi
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In you’re in the ’Burg today or tomorrow, check out the fifth-ever annual vernacular printacular Brooklyn affordable print fair! Titled Prints Gone Wild! the event at Secret Project Robot Art Space [http://www.secretprojectrobot.org] (210 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — Google map [http://maps
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This week's post on Hyperallergic about how awesome art teachers are sparked a lot of response, so we decided to start a little Twitter action: we re-tweeted everyone who sent us their most influential art teachers, whether it was a college professor or an elementary school instructor. This heartwar
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The recent case of the dictator Sultan of Brunei brother’s sex sculptures [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-03/prince-jefri-of-bruneis-trial-features-nude-statues/full/] makes us wonder why the member of southeast Asia royalty didn’t just commission Jeff Koons, who knows a thin
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Last night to the accompaniment of much fanfare and celebrity attendance German conceptual “artist's artist” Hans-Peter Feldmann [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Peter_Feldmann] won the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize [Hugo Boss prize], a biannual award that comes with a cool $100,000. Feldmann wasn'
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A number of news sources are reporting that Chinese art great Ai Weiwei is under house arrest in his north Beijing home. “I am under house arrest,” Mr Ai told The Daily Telegraph by telephone. “They asked me not to go and to tell everyone the party was off, but I said I couldn’t do that and they’d h
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New York Art Book Fair kicks off today, so if you like print media AND contemporary art as much as we do (even though we're online), there's only place to be this weekend: MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, where the fair is being held. Hosted by AA Bronson, president of NYC art media shop and proponent