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Today, we announce that our quest to find the worst piece of art PR in the universe has become a contest decided by our loyal readers and fellow netizens. For the first ever Worst.Press.Release.Ever. match up we've called on two friends of Hyperallergic to battle it out in a contest that will bestow
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The next morning I took the T (aka, the trolley) into the city, and walked across the bridge to The Warhol. I love The Warhol. (Hate the NO PHOTOS policy though.) It never lets me down. Feels a bit like Mecca to me. Even when I know what's on, I always come across surprises. The first one greeted me
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On April 29, 1974, the prog rock masters King Crimson played a famously furious gig at the Stanley Warner theatre in Pittsburgh, later immortalized as part of the band's towering 4-disc live set, The Great Deceiver. In 1974, the steel industry was wheezing its way out of town, and the city was caree
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The Front Room gallery in Williamsburg can be easy to miss if you aren’t looking, though the current show, a selection of images from photographer Sasha Bezzubov’s latest series Wildfire, is certainly worth seeking out. The work documents ravaged landscapes on the West Coast following devastating wi
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Greg Cook is proud to be a yokel. As an art critic for The Boston Phoenix weekly, an independent blogger and artist, Greg is a staunch fan and supporter of the Boston contemporary art community. What bugs him about this city’s art scene is that he might have a better opinion of the scene than it doe
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... Florida's Dail Museum needs money to complete its new building ... a woman fell into a Rose Period Picasso last Friday at the Met and ignited some of the funniest blog comments I've ever read on a New York Times blog (don't worry, both the woman & the Picasso will be fine) ... Toronto's Art Gall
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We were recently deleting our hard drives from the aughts in an effort to upload everything into the cloud and we found these gems among the files. We almost forgot these things happened ... oh wait, did they? Who remembers.
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It's obvious that Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown don't like to sit around waiting for things to happen, which may explain why they have become cornerstones in Bushwick, Brooklyn's art scene. Andrew is the driving force behind Norte Maar, an apartment cultural space on Wyckoff Avenue that has played
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One of the most important social, political, and artistic concerns facing us today is the question of access: our ability to share media, our ability to take ownership of or simply to view films, music, and other forms of art. In the past, non-digital and only finitely reproducible media created a c
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A year ago, Julia Kaganskiy (aka @juliaxgulia) quietly began the Arts, Culture and Technology group in New York on Meetup.com. It was a simple idea: link up geeks with a love of culture. It may sound obvious in the art capital of the world but Julia was the first person to think it up and follow thr
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Today, I was browsing Facebook and I discovered a post by Joy Garnett, who was offering one of her paintings to the first collector to pledge $10,000 to a fund for Haiti. She's an artist known for painting images of disasters and I wanted to talk to her about her latest bout of altruism.