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Ah, the e-flux email list, ever full of surprises. One day it might elicit a cri de couer of indignation ("really?"), and the next day just a dramatic eye-roll. Sure it's a very useful tool, but it's also chock-full of self-important curatorial jargon, exaggerated claims, and overblown PR-ese...Whic
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Two weeks ago, I found myself in Los Angeles with an afternoon to kill. I ventured to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and stumbled across a small exhibition by 18th C. Spanish still life painter Luis Meléndez. The exhibition, titled "Master of the Spanish Still Life," was a quaint two-room show
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In his latest edition of Hypermedia, artist Artie Vierkant explores ideas of surveillance and sousveillance in the work of artists Jill Magid, Steve Mann, Josh On, Ryan McKinley, and Trevor Paglen.
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Jason Andrew is the curator and archivist for the Estate of Jack Tworkov and was the mastermind behind the recent retrospective of Jack Tworkov's work. A prominent figure in the Bushwick art scene, Jason Andrew is also the founding director of Norte Maar, which encourages, promotes, and supports col
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...Jean Nouvel's new MoMA tower gets chopped and approved...Bushwick politico meets with local arts community...San Francisco galleries are branching out...and starting this week everyone will be looking to the art auctions of New York as a barometer of the art world's economic health.
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This movement of art in- and outside has been of interest to me since I regularly began following street art about a year ago. The contexts in which the work can be seen often varies dramatically, and these environmental shifts raise a number of questions: does the work itself change as it traverses
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Depending on how a street artist uses the street they may have something to lose by moving into a gallery space. Peru Ana Ana Peru, which is composed of two artists, use the street primarily as a way of making their striking and fantastical images even more so. We are struck by a colorful image or b
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A few weeks ago Art Review announced the Top 100 power brokers in the art world but we thought they missed the real story. So Hyperallergic has released its own list of the people who have never received their moment in the sun. We present the Top 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World!
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On Sunday, many New Yorkers were probably trying to figure out who whitewashed and pimped out some of the city's boring billboards. If you liked what you saw then let me introduce you to the man behind the renegade campaign, known as New York Street Advertising Takeover (NYSAT), his name is Jordan S
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Hypermedia columnist Artie Vierkant interviews artists Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas, who are more commonly known as AIDS-3D. Their work deals with a multitude of issues at the intersection of art, technology and society and they frequently employ cultural ephemera from the Internet rendered in aesth
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...Grand Rapids, Michigan, stunned by success of ArtPrize Festival...Mark Rothko's first solo show in Moscow to take place this spring...van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam launched "Vincent van Gogh: The Letters" website with complete images and text of all the artist's correspondence...Ukrainian art webs