Art
Something Queer About Jamaican Art
In Kingston, Jamaica, making artwork that explores LGBT-related issues is becoming increasingly more accepted, however it still has the potential to be life threatening.
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Crowd Sourcing Sculpture in East Williamsburg
The geometric construction inhabits Devotion Gallery is the focus and product of a project/performance by musician and multimedia artist Morgan Packard titled Dihedral Product. The work is a crowd-sourced sculpture that evolves according to the donated manpower and creativity of gallery visitors.
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Bushwick's Northern Neighbor Is Getting Art-ified
Even if your bohemian dolce vita in Bushwick is all you ever wanted, sometimes it’s necessary to (temporarily) leave this blooming neighborhood, and visit Ridgewood, another neighborhood emerging as part of the city's art geography.
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Finding Where the Wild Things Are in a Brooklyn Basement
Underground in Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern, a Williamsburg basement covered from floor to ceiling with neon toys, furniture, disco-balls, and murals where Scharf holds dance parties, last Saturday night, I, along with about 250 attendees, traveled to the place where the wild things are with Michael
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Louvre's Men in Yellow
Paris — I'm traveling today, so there may be less posts than usual but I couldn't resist sharing one of the games I love to play in museums. I choose a theme, topic, color or some other attribute and walk through finding it in the collection.
Opinion
On Bombshells and Public Art
A new Marilyn Monroe sculpture went up in Chicago but homegrown reaction to the sculpture has been "almost uniformly negative" … though you wouldn't know if you were checking Flickr.
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China's Instant Messenger and Why New Media Types Need It
It's a well-known truism that the internet in China is lousy. But business has to be done and file transfers have to be made. New media artists in particular, who can work with large complex files, would be at a loss if they relied on Western sites like YouSendIt (blocked), DropBox (blocked) and eve
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You Must Change Your Life
This past May, Munro Galloway and Dushko Petrovich presented You Must Change Your Life, a two-person exhibition of their work at Soloway titled after the closing line of Rilke’s poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” The exhibition was accompanied by a reader published by the gallery composed of excerpts o
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Beyond the Book or Zine Hunting in Booklyn
This past June, artist and curator Aimee Lusty [http://aimeelusty.com] took over as Booklyn’s gallery director. Lusty proposed a program that promotes artists primarily working in print: each show she curated would include print artists showing fine art work, and each show would result in a zine cat
Opinion
James Franco Tries To Make Non-Visible Art More Visible, Even on TV
Thought that James Franco's recent apparent breakup with art BFF Kalup Linzy [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/fashion/performance-artist-kalup-linzy-and-the-art-of-being-a-character.html?_r=1] meant that you wouldn't be seeing quite as much of his grinning disembodied mug [http://hyperallergic.com
Opinion
Required Reading
This week's Required Reading … Banksy on UK phone-tapping scandal, Hirst-a-palooza at Gagosian Galleries worldwide, affordable Warhols, what do you do with a stolen art work, Sam Maloof, Hans Hoffmann as art teacher, how the "Mona Lisa"'s became famous and the problem with "minorities."
News
Are the Repo Men Still Coming for Spiral Jetty?
When we last left you in this saga, the Utah Department of Natural Resources had accused Dia Art Foundation of not renewing their lease on Robert Smithson’s iconic work of land art “Spiral Jetty.” As it stood then, the state appeared to be taking a backseat approach to the problem, not immediately p