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My husband was walking down Bedford Avenue on Wednesday, and he spotted someone pasting up posters on a wall which is almost always dominated by a giant Shepard Fairey poster, so frequently in fact that it might as well be his permanent ad space. It was lunchtime and no one stopped or cared. Knowing
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The @Platea social media art collective is doing a cover of Vito Acconci's seminal "Following Piece" (1969), which was first initiated forty years ago this month. A study in the public spaces we occupy and assumptions around privacy, Acconci followed random people in Manhattan during the month and r
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Much has been written about the traveling exhibition The Americans, but here’s a recap: Swiss photographer Robert Frank won a Guggenheim fellowship and drove around the United States in 1955-56 taking pictures. His book The Americans, with a forward by Jack Kerouac, was published in 1959, and met wi
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When a gaggle of Meriden teenagers got together in the early 80's to form Napalm Death, they weren't thinking of completely restructuring the DNA of the Song. They weren't thinking about inventing a new Metal genre, Grindcore. They weren't thinking about garnering the lifelong support of John Peel.
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Hypermedia: Critical Issues in Contemporary Media Art is a column written by artist Artie Vierkant for Hyperallergic. Each article discusses an existing or emerging theme in practices at the intersection of electronic media and the arts, drawing from the contemporary and the historic, the pervasive
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It's an epidemic in street art publications, picture books with no little or no text and often no photo credits or explanatory text. The democratization of publishing, accompanied by the popularity of street art, has created a mass delusion that just because anyone could that everyone should publish
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I joined Hyperallergic editor and fellow street art enthusiast, Hrag Vartanian, to discuss the recent film by the Antagonist Art Movement titled "This is Berlin Not New York." The very indie film is directed by Ethan H. Minsker and follows the adventures of the New York-based art group as they trave
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The second issue of Manya Scheps' quarterly critical journal New Asshole launched on the internet recently in .pdf format. The journal, a self-described "DIY critique of DIY," focuses primarily on goings on among the collective and community-based art scenes in Philadelphia. (Full disclosure--this i
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In an age of DIY transformations, Etsy domination and artisanal homemade chocolates sold at hip flea markets, is CRAFT still a dirty word? Brooklynite Amy Shaw reflects on her years of experience in the field and thinks about the world of craft in general. When I was growing up amidst potters, carp
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For Alex Bag’s current solo show, Reality Tunnel Vision, the front room of Elizabeth Dee gallery is wrapped with forest-patterned wallpaper on one side (curling off the wall at the far end), dead plants hanging from the wall, some dead bamboo sticking out of dirt on the gallery floor, an old barbequ
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Much contemporary art is disappointing--street art especially. Even if you manage to find a piece you really like--or, if you’re lucky, one that is really worth liking--it gets buffed, weathered beyond recognition, hyped beyond reason, or it simply disappears. And like all art, its digital web ghost
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Quirky, clever and crafty are words that immediately come to mind when describing the work of Andy Yoder. His brand of conceptual sculpture easily manipulates scale, surfaces and materials to create fetishistic objects that are familiar and alienating. In his latest solo show titled Man Cave at Wink