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In an attempt to answer the age-old question -- Is it art or home decor? -- I perused the halls of Art Basel Miami to see how galleries are serving the lifestyle needs of the rich and famous.
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Outside of the major art fairs there's dozens of other art things to see and do in Miami, including Wynwood Walls, which featured a bootilicious Sissy Bounce performance, art by Fairey, Swoon, Stelios Faitakis, Los Gêmeos, and more.
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If looking at art is fun, watching it burn is great. There's something cathartic about attending an event dedicated to the destruction of art in the middle of the world's largest art fair bacchanalia.
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In the belly of the art market beast, Hrag is wandering Miami in search of the ultimate art fair experience. First up is the landmark Art Basel fair in South Beach.
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While the players in the global art market descend on Miami to scoop up artistic baubles and all the prestige associated with it, some people have arrived at this international art orgy for less consumer driven motives. Enter Celso and his Art Burn event.
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Why haven't we been posting much recently? Well, the short answer is MIAMI! Yes, we're off to the fairs and we're bringing you along with us. Expect many musings from the front lines of the art world's greatest clusterfuck.
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What happens when in the name of art you ride through Manhattan in a truck hauling ginormous letters that spell the word NO? Lyra finds out.
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Recently on Hyperallergic, An Xiao's “Cover Art, or Vito Acconci Gets a Follow Back,” made the case for artists who choose to directly reference or re-stage existing artworks. She draws a comparison between derivative works and cover songs. This may be an apt comparison, but she glosses over an impo
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... an art exhibit for the blind ... do the recent art auctions point to a possible surprise at the Miami art fairs ... North Carolina Museum of Art is gearing up for its new building ... Toronto is hosting a King Tut blockbuster ... the Taubman Museum of Art realizes that a splashy new building doe
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It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the popularized images of people cheering and celebrating in front of the greatest symbol of the Cold Wall tells only part of the story, says Daniel Larkin. The day after was filled with more anxiety than recent media narratives would have y
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Recess opened on Grand Street in September as a storefront artist residency space open to the public, and their inaugural show by Corin Hewitt and Molly McFadden, Double Room, tackles questions of replication, authorship, documentation, labor-as-performance, and collaboration.
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An Xiao organized a 40th Anniversary tribute to Vito Acconci's "Following Piece" (1969) for @Platea, the social media art collective she performs with. She likes to call what she did a form of "cover art" and she explains why.