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Just Say No: Santiago Sierra Takes Manhattan
What happens when in the name of art you ride through Manhattan in a truck hauling ginormous letters that spell the word NO? Lyra finds out.
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Recently on Hyperallergic, An Xiao's “Cover Art, or Vito Acconci Gets a Follow Back,” made the case for artists who choose to directly reference or re-stage existing artworks. She draws a comparison between derivative works and cover songs. This may be an apt comparison, but she glosses over an impo
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China Establishes Contemporary Art Academy, Tyler Revitalizes N. Philly, Brooklyn Girl Faces Fine for Chalk Drawings
... an art exhibit for the blind ... do the recent art auctions point to a possible surprise at the Miami art fairs ... North Carolina Museum of Art is gearing up for its new building ... Toronto is hosting a King Tut blockbuster ... the Taubman Museum of Art realizes that a splashy new building doe
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Anxious Freedom: After the Berlin Wall
It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the popularized images of people cheering and celebrating in front of the greatest symbol of the Cold Wall tells only part of the story, says Daniel Larkin. The day after was filled with more anxiety than recent media narratives would have y
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Corin Hewitt & Molly McFadden Play Double at Recess
Recess opened on Grand Street in September as a storefront artist residency space open to the public, and their inaugural show by Corin Hewitt and Molly McFadden, Double Room, tackles questions of replication, authorship, documentation, labor-as-performance, and collaboration.
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Cover Art, or Vito Acconci Gets a Follow Back
An Xiao organized a 40th Anniversary tribute to Vito Acconci's "Following Piece" (1969) for @Platea, the social media art collective she performs with. She likes to call what she did a form of "cover art" and she explains why.
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Looking for Genghis Khan's Tomb, SFMOMA Preps for Fisher Collection, 73-Year-Old Arrested for Tagging in LA
... a lull in Iraqi violence helps spur cultural activity ... homeless artists in Austin, Texas, have an art show & benefit ... art mogul Eli Broad is scouting for a museum location ... artist Sam Bassett is arrested for trying to make New York's Sotheby's building into art.
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Brent Owens Gets a Woody at English Kills
Daniel Larkin reflects on Brent Owens's solo show Gnastic Pursuits, which took place earlier this fall at the English Kills Art Gallery in Brooklyn. Describing his work, Larkin writes, "Owens likewise takes the rich tradition of wood carving and melds it with that millennial taste for biting wit and
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Why You Probably Shouldn't Stash Your Picasso in Your London Flat
While Main Street continues to hemorrhage jobs and Wall Street revives its ridiculous bonus system, the elite among us -- most notably the trustees of the New Museum -- will probably be very interested to know where they should stash their valuables during these sad times in case, well, in case ...
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[Sponsor] Pernod Absinthe Announces "Creator Of" Art Contest
Many thanks to Pernod Absinthe for supporting the arts and believing in independent and emerging voices in the arts. This week, they are pleased to announce the Pernod Absinthe “Creator Of” Art Contest.
Books
A Review of "Artist/Artshow: Inside Contemporary Artshow Culture"
Artist/Artshow is an image-heavy book produced this year by AllRightsReserved, a self-described creative studio based in Hong Kong that seeks to publish high-quality texts which explore issues related to the visual arts. You'll love the pictures but ...
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The US President That Just Won't Go Away: Reaganography
Artist Kevin Regan grew up in a family of Reagan Democrats. Today, he continues to be plagued by Reagan, and he uses the image of our 40th President in his own personal art. To amplify the trauma, we asked Kevin to visit a recent exhibition titled Reaganography and report on what he saw.