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There's no excuse not to come out to New York’s greatest up-and-coming arts neighborhood this weekend. Not only is our own #TheSocialGraph [http://hyperallergic.createsend1.com/t/y/l/qjjhul/oghujluy/j] show opening this Friday night (6-9p) at Outpost, but emerging gallery Famous Accountants will be
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An attacker “brandishing a felt-tipped pen” has vandalized a Basquiat painting on display at Paris' Modern Art Museum, the Daily Mail reports. Yet the victim, a work called “Cadillac Moon 1981,” (seen at left) “is of such an abstract nature that it took at least a few days for experts to notice the
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When Christie’s recently became a sponsor of Hyperallergic, I knew little if anything about Robert Shapazian, whose important contemporary art collection [http://www.christies.com/features/2010-october-the-collection-of-robert-shapazian-1021-1.aspx] was advertised on this site and sold this week. Th
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Despite the 2010 New York Art Book Fair getting quite a fair amount of press attention, photographer and fair participant Alec Soth feels that it wasn't exactly the right kind. His criticism lies not with the fair itself nor with its PR, rather, his opinion that critics don't often go out of their w
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The trek out to PS1 for the 2010 New York Art Book Fair [http://nyartbookfair.com/] took me on the E train to Long Island City, away from Hyperallergic's Williamsburg office. Yet somehow, the population of Williamsburg had followed me there. The concrete colonnade and ramped steps leading up to PS1'
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Sometimes I wish a 1000 words could kill a picture. #criticism — William (@Powhida) November 10, 2010 I guess the old adage is wrong, how about 10,000? Art would be so much more fun if words had this kind of power.
Opinion
I thought I'd share with you a term that I encountered in my internet wanderings this morning, found in this essay by Dana Ward [http://blog.sfmoma.org/2010/11/dana-ward-on-cory-arcangel/] on artist Cory Arcangel, hat tip to Modern Art Notes' excellent Wednesday link post [http://blogs.artinfo.com/m
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If the voice's call is the origin of speech - with its ability to hail, summon, or bestow a name - then perhaps the hand, raised to touch, or signal at a distance, is its silent counterpart. These two gestures form a call and response that provides the structure for stylus, a project created by Ann
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It’s worth your time to read the whole thing [http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/post/1525958345/the-river-crab-banquet-images-and-report-from-rachel], it has some GREAT photos! [@aiwwenglish [http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/]]
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Yale School of Art may have the reputation of being an institution that turns out future art market-friendly artist gazillionaires, but their website is hurting the eyes of people all over the web. Recently, a bunch of users on Reddit have been cursing the institution’s jarring — which may be an und
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A group of enterprising Oxford musicologists have endeavored to recreate the musical instruments [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/07/sam-leith-shocking-news-oxford] found in the Bosch's famed 16th century painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a painting that's well known for its unreal
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Here come the new collectors, same as the old collectors. Barron's has an article [http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970203408504575588573549514034.html?mod=googlenews_barrons] on collectors from the developing world asking for unorthodox art deals, such as payment terms that extend ove