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Mail Art Bulletin: No History, Only a Present
As we dig through our Mail Art Bulletin submissions, our participants have taken to constructing a history of Mail Art through correspondence. We received three envelopes with references to Ray Johnson, the godfather of mail art.
News
Guggenheim Foundation Supports Appointment of Independent Monitor for Abu Dhabi Project
A statement by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was released today in support of the appoint of PricewaterhouseCoopers as an independent monitor at the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim.
Art
Oklahoma Art Is OK!
Ever since I moved to New York, I’ve been telling people that great contemporary art is coming out of my homestate of Oklahoma. Benrimon Contemporary in Chelsea is finally bringing some evidence to New York in the group show Red Country Pictures. The exhibit focuses on one particularly influential l
Opinion
Lindsay Lohan Stars in Art Video, World Doesn't End
Richard Philips might be better known in the art world as a photorealist painter, but the painter just turned videographer with an art project-cum-advertisement for celebrity and tabloid icon Lindsay Lohan. The work is “a 90-second ad for her more sober self,” according to Linda Yablonsky at T Magaz
Opinion
NY Museum Attendance & Twitter Followers
@MuseumNerd, that anonymous art personality on Twitter, has blogged an interesting graphic that lists the attendance to New York museums, their Twitter following, and how they measure up.
Opinion
Required Reading
Jeff Koons's art collection, thoughts on LA MOCA's questionable art history, Invader in Paris, a tour of the Calatrava building in Milwaukee, something fishy about Warhol, iPhone photography and corporate culture and the US government … all on this week's Required Reading.
Art
Indie Art Publishers Take Root in North Brooklyn
If you don’t know the names of Pen15 Press, Wild Isle, For the Birds collective, Birdsong Collective, Burn Books and Brooklyn Arts Press yet, you probably should. These groups are producing indie art books worth a look, and form the center of Brooklyn DIY arts publishing. Yet even given the ready sc
Opinion
Not as Famous, or Lesser-known Relatives of Well-known Artists
Dik F. Liu is a Williamsburg-based artist who has compiled a fascinating list on his Facebook profile page of what he has termed the "Not as Famous - Lesser known relatives of well-known artists." He has allowed us to publish a number of the gems he's found. Love triangles, same-sex spouses, illegit
Art
Port Authority's Human Side in a 24 Hour Performance
When I caught performance artist Man Bartlett around 4:30 pm EST yesterday, he had been in New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal for 23 and a half hours straight. Beginning on Wednesday, May 25 at 5 pm and continuing through 5 pm on May 26, the “#24hPort” performance saw the artist occupy both
Art
Mail Art Bulletin: Information Distortion Field
Artist Brian Dupont has been a longtime Hyperallergic pal. He describes is art as "a study of how the visual aspects of information can be conveyed — or distorted — within the framework of abstract painting." That visually abstract lexicon is often layered with words and letters to convey an added s
Opinion
Postmodern Safe House Packs Itself Up
Your day in architectural GIFs: this home, designed by Polish architecture firm KWK Promes, transforms from luxury villa into tightly sealed black box, the ultimate safe house. The “Safe House”, completed in 2009, would be the ultimate for any Bond villain.