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Introducing Reactor
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Battle for the Nation: John Yau Questions Jerry Saltz's America
In the newly released edition of the Brooklyn Rail, editor John Yau takes on New York Magazine's art critic Jerry Saltz and his characterization of America as “big, bright, shiny, colorful, crowd-pleasing, heat-seeking, impeccably produced, polished, popular, expensive, and extroverted—while also be
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And the Winner Is … Paddy Johnson!
After hundreds of votes and dozens of banter on the post, on Twitter & on Facebook, we are happy to announce that Paddy Johnson has been declared the official winner of the first ever Worst. Press. Release. Ever. competition. The art blogosphere's favorite art fag has crossed the finish line the vic
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China Bulldozes Studios, Flash Mobs Follow, Avatar Invoked
While we live our artistic lives in the West in relative calm, if sometimes obscurity and poverty, artists in China face some very serious dangers from an autocratic government that only allows art to flower when it fits its political agenda. So when artists in China create a flash mob to protest th
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Stripped, Tied & Raw at Marianne Boesky
Marianne Boesky, you saucy little wench! Mine eyes had never taken you for propagating such a meat market amidst such stagnant clinical settings. You always seemed more the proper uptown type, rather than mistress of Manhattan's nether regions. Now that I've gotten that out of my system … walking in
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Flawed Diamonds: Recent Painting at Exit Art
Jesse Chapman’s painting of the struggle to stick a contact into an eye, "The Lens" (2009), strikes me as an apt allegory for recent painting. It is one of the gems from Exit Art’s shinning survey of contemporary painting, NEW MIRRORS: Painting in a Transparent World, that is set to close this weeke
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Rebooting Boston's Art Inferiority Complex
Is it possible for an entire city to have an inferiority complex over its own art and artists? At times it certainly seems like Boston does. Between ignoring traveling retrospectives of local artists, devoting gallery space to art world circuit card-holders, and hemorrhaging curators, this city’s sc
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Worst. Press. Release. Ever. is Baaack... & It's a Battle!! Paddy Johnson Vs. Lyra Kilston
Today, we announce that our quest to find the worst piece of art PR in the universe has become a contest decided by our loyal readers and fellow netizens. For the first ever Worst.Press.Release.Ever. match up we've called on two friends of Hyperallergic to battle it out in a contest that will bestow
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Pittsburgh: The Great Deceiver (Part Two)
The next morning I took the T (aka, the trolley) into the city, and walked across the bridge to The Warhol. I love The Warhol. (Hate the NO PHOTOS policy though.) It never lets me down. Feels a bit like Mecca to me. Even when I know what's on, I always come across surprises. The first one greeted me
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Pittsburgh: The Great Deceiver (Part One)
On April 29, 1974, the prog rock masters King Crimson played a famously furious gig at the Stanley Warner theatre in Pittsburgh, later immortalized as part of the band's towering 4-disc live set, The Great Deceiver. In 1974, the steel industry was wheezing its way out of town, and the city was caree
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Beautiful Disaster: Sasha Bezzubov's "Wildfire"
The Front Room gallery in Williamsburg can be easy to miss if you aren’t looking, though the current show, a selection of images from photographer Sasha Bezzubov’s latest series Wildfire, is certainly worth seeking out. The work documents ravaged landscapes on the West Coast following devastating wi