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Damien Hirst has been through it all, hosting his own auctions, running a personal factory of assistants and opening art-themed restaurants. But a new venture has him using his talents for the big screen — Hirst will be “curating” art for a big-budget London movie lampooning Hirst's generation-defin
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This weekend, the usually free National Gallery of Art might not be. In fact, it could not be open at all. With the possibility of a government shutdown looming as a result of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans over the national budget, public museums may be the first institutions to cl
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Today Hyperallergic is launching Ai Weiwei Watch, a permanent liveblog of the events and issues surrounding Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's arrest. Our initial two liveblogs covered the artist's detainment and early news, but the controversy has gone international, provoking diplomatic reactions from Fra
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Artist Ahmed Basiony was to represent Egypt in the 2011 Venice Biennale in an exhibition at the country's national pavilion, curated by Shady El Noshokaty. Yet the artist will now be representing his country's art community posthumously — Basiony died in gunfire in Tahrir Square while documenting th
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With the release of a brand new iPad application, the Museum of Modern Art forays into the territory of digital publishing. The free application is a smooth way to buy the digital versions of MoMA's exhibition catalogues, but the app also presents several advantages over simply buying PDF versions o
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This morning, LA Anonymous unveiled their latest work, a circus-inspired poster installed on the north-facing wall of Zip Fusion Sushi in downtown LA, near Little Tokyo. Titled “Art in the Streets” (2011), the poster by LA Anonymous appears a week before MOCA LA director Jeffrey Deitch's Art in the
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Tim McCool let us know that when he saw this building in his hometown of Pittsburgh he thought it would be a perfect fit for a standard envelope … and mail art.
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In 1999, the National Gallery of Australia cancelled a planned exhibition of Sir Charles Saatchi’s Sensation, a collection of art focused on the work of the Young British Artists of the 1990s, on the grounds of the possible offensiveness of many of the works included in the show. Several of those wo
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The Eames Lounge Chair is probably the single most iconic piece of high modernist furniture ever made. Designed by famed modernist designer couple Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company, the Lounge's sleek wooden curves and sumptuous leather have pretty much become a byword fo
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Though he is the most visible victim, artist Ai Weiwei's arrest is only one symptom of a greater crackdown on free expression in China that has been deemed the “Big Chill.” Other victims detained and arrested include writers, lawyers and Chinese cultural figures.
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Sometimes art criticism gets physical. According to reports from the Washington Post, a woman attempted to grab Gauguin's “Two Tahitian Women” (1899) painting off the wall of DC's National Gallery, screaming “this is evil” and pounding at the painting's plastic covering with her fists. Talk about se
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On Sunday morning Beijing time, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested and detained at the airport on his way to Hong Kong. We haven't heard from the artist since. Ai's studio remains occupied by police forces though the larger neighborhood of Caochangdi is unaffected at present. Studio assistants, i