Opinion
Kanye on @#$%*ing Art Criticism
Kanye West's intermittent tweets about art always make my day, so you can imagine my joy when I saw this tweet pop up in my feed. Click through for further commentary on Mark Rothko.
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Interview
Loren Munk Talks Social Network Paintings & James Kalm Report
Last Saturday, #TheSocialGraph was honored to host the first-ever retrospective of Loren Munk’s popular online video channel, the James Kalm Report. Started as a conceptual performance of sorts, Munk and his alterego, James Kalm, have over the course of four and a half years garnered a cult followin
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The Benefit of Virtual Living? Reality Doesn't Last
If a meteor destroyed all of Queens, we'd probably be pretty freaked out. But might a virtual dragon destroying a virtual city ultimately upset more people? In an article entitled “Cataclysm Coming...” author Tom Chatfield explores what the update means [http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/05/cataclys
Art
Nuclear Tropics by Space Slave Trade
As a preview to tonight's #TheSocialGraph exhibition opening at Outpost (6-9pm) check out one of the pieces featured in the show, Space Slave Trade's “Nuclear Tropics” (2010).
Interview
Jennifer Dalton Talks Social Media Consumption
This is the second in a series of interviews with artists, writers, and personalities involved with #TheSocialGraph, which opens today (November 12, 6-9p). For more information, visit hyperalleric.com/thesocialgraph [http://hyperalleric.com/thesocialgraph]. Jennifer Dalton stepped right into the hea
Art
Gagosian, Google Invest In Art Start Up Art.sy, But Why?
Vaguely-defined art startup Art.sy has found some pretty incredible backers, among them some of the biggest names in both contemporary art and tech. Larry Gagosian, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Russian heiress and contemporary art world butterfly Dasha Zhukova and Wendi Murdoch (wife of Rupert) are team
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3-Day Bushwick Art Weekend
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
Opinion
Basquiat Defaced in Paris, But Does it Matter?
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
Opinion
Who Was Robert Shapazian? Reflections On Art + Money
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
Opinion
Alec Soth Says Art Books Don’t Get Reviewed
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
Books
NY Art Book Fair 2010 Overwhelms With Possibility, Hipsters
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'
Opinion
Killer Criticism by @Powhida
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.