Interview
The “Oficina de Gestion de Muros” (Walls Management Office) is an independent Spanish project that fills the empty spaces around the city of Madrid with art. WMO is putting the best street artists on the planet in touch with Madrid locals, neighbors, shopkeepers and businesses alike who have empty w
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As an adult, I fly back to Las Vegas frequently and I relive my youth by driving around the city in a rent-a-car with my camera in tow capturing the city I once knew. In this piece for Hyperallergic, I am posting photographs from my ongoing photo documentary series consisting of Las Vegas hotel & mo
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Davos, Switzerland — ModernARTization: Art and Philanthropy Changing Societies. Yes, it's a mouthful, and I also don’t know what it means, and the presentation didn't help. Organizer and philanthropist, Victor Pinchuk, hosted a gathering at the Morosani Schweizerhof Hotel in Davos, Switzerland to di
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The Smithsonian's Board of Regents, the highest administrative body of the organization, will be meeting on Monday January 31st with Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough to discuss his decision to censor David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibit
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After numerous nasty incidents post-9/11 when the US government's rush to take away rights caused countless problems for people taking photos in public, today we have good news for photographers, artists, tourists, and camera enthusiasts across America.
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There's a pile of sunflower seeds on sale at Sotheby's upcoming February 15 Contemporary Art Evening Auction, and it's going for an equally large pile of money. How does $120,000 for 100 kilograms of seeds sound? But these aren't just any seeds: they're the same hand-crafted porcelain replicas that
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MoMA photography curator Roxana Marcoci knows that we are experiencing a “renaissance of performance”. The show she has curated in collaboration with Eva Respini, Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 [http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1100], will explore the role of the
Books
Alison Young is a lawyer and a professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, but don't let that intimidate you. She has also extensively covered the Australian street art world, writing and teaching on the “intersection of law, crime and culture.” In Street|Studio: The Place of Street Art in
Opinion
In our book review from last week, we looked at the art-world comic book Adventures of Grossmalerman, the often-bloody satire of a bad-boy German painter. This video episode of Grossmalerman lampoons the classic cliche of a studio visit: a standoffish critic takes one look at the artist's latest can
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At a preview of the New Museum's George Condo retrospective, I was struck by the painter's relentless engagement with all sorts of art historical genres, from Baroque portraiture to abstract expressionism and back again. Here's a photo essay covering the entire Condo exhibition, from the salon style
Opinion
The personal foundation of Damien Hirst’s friend and hunting buddy, Victor Pinchuk, is inviting the Davos elite to produce a spin painting with the formaldehyde man himself using the artist's spin painting machines and, according to the Pinchuk Foundation press release, "specially delivered to Davos
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In what almost sounds like an obituary for the Jersey City Museum, The Star Ledger is reporting the following about the ailing art institution: " … what may be the best contemporary art collection in the state, is so strapped for cash that it can’t keep the lights on." So, what is happening at the N