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.
Art
Across the street from the Museum of Modern Art at West 53rd Street is an exhibition that might be unexpected for those expecting only Van Goghs and Picassos. Pantheon: a history of art from the streets of NYC is an attempt to create solidified narrative of street art history, to pin down this ephem
Art
Attention all neighborhood artists! Northside Open Studios is hosting a meet and greet from 7:30 to 10:30 pm this Tuesday night (April 26) at Brooklyn Brewery in preparation for the Northside Open Studios (NOS) bonanza coming up in June. Mix and mingle with fellow artists and curators, plus grab a c
Opinion
Stationed outside of the Seagram building at 75 Park Avenue between 52nd Street and 53rd Street is a giant yellow teddy bear. Oh yeah, it also has a lamp sticking out of its back and through its head. Urs Fischer's monumental sculpture “Untitled (Lamp/Bear)” has already attracted attention for its u
Opinion
Photographer Gregory Crewdson is largely known for his surreal suburban landscapes, posed and shot like something out of a postmodern Edward Hopper painting. But the artist also has a more sensitive side. In this series featured in the New York Times, Crewdson shoots a partly retired Italian movie s
Opinion
This week… Ai Weiwei Easter egg, Picasso & Marie-Thérèse, camera obscura, LACMA acquisitions, John Berger's new book, thoughts on criticism and Mummers in Newfoundland.