Art
Sometimes an exhibition reminds you of why exhibitions exist, those surprising moments when usually dull curatorial exercises become transcendent experiences, reinvigorating overlooked corners of art history. I Am Still Alive at the Museum of Modern Art is one of those exhibitions, defiant and vivac
Art
Online exhibition space The State has a new show up: Jacob Broms Engblom's “wShare” is a fetishization of those internet moments when we're just caught waiting.
Art
When fashion impresario Yves Saint Laurent was once asked to name his favorite poet, he paused for a moment, smiled and spoke Pierre Bergé’s name in a soft tone. This “poet” was the designer’s devoted companion for over fifty years. He was also the impresario that ran the logistics of the Yves St. L
Opinion
Teri Tynes of the Walking Off the Big Apple blog went to the preview for Anthony Caro's mini-retrospective on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum. She has published a good set of photos and a post that reports on the artist and what he said during the press event.
Art
Walking through the Museum of Modern Art's modern galleries the other day, I happened upon a small painting that's about as powerful a work as any I've ever seen in the museum, and maybe my favorite object in the collection. Surprisingly, this mini work is actually a Picasso, and even at 6 1/4 by 4
Interview
Written from the perspective of Dr. Gachet, Vincent van Gogh's physician, Carol Wallace's Leaving Van Gogh is the fictional story of the famous painter's final months in the French town of Auvers. Based on 902 letters exchanged between Van Gogh and his family and friends, the novel paints the pictur
News
Last friday, a federal judge denied a request to order Maine to return a mural to a state Labor Department office where it was removed last month. According to the ruling [http://ia600606.us.archive.org/30/items/gov.uscourts.med.40981/gov.uscourts.med.40981.24.0.pdf], the Maine governor's order to r
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A vibrant Picasso painting, which has not been seen in public for six decades, was donated by an anonymous American under the condition that the University of Sydney sell the work to fund scientific research. [BBC]
Art
William Evertson created one of the most surprising packages we've received for the Mail Art Bulletin. His padded envelope covered with grids and stamps of all kinds, including one that read "Will Work for Food" and another of our Hyperallergic "H" logo, arrived bulging and begging us to open it.
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Though the artist remains arrested and his whereabouts and status are still unknown, Ai Weiwei has been offered a guest professorship at Berlin's University of the Arts, the official position financed by the Einstein Foundation and supported by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Meanwhile, NYU professor
Opinion
Can a sunset be crowd-sourced? Artist Jasper Elings has done just that with “Sharing a Beautiful Sunset” (2009), a 1 minute video that creates one single ocean sunset from hundreds of disparate images found on Google Images. The resulting video, set to a industrial drone soundtrack, is both poetic f
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As LA's MOCA tries to give graffiti and street art their moment in the Southern California sun, in New York LA II, aka Angel Ortiz, and in Los Angeles, Revok, aka Jason Williams, are in jail for doing the art they love.