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After seeing Lynn Maliszewski's report from the Hermann Nitsch show at the Mike Weiss Gallery in Chelsea, I decided it was necessary that I attend at least part of the Action Painting by the veteran Viennese Actionist.
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British news sources are reporting that nearly a dozen protesters "set off alarms and threw fake £50 notes in the air at Sotheby's before unfurling a large banner bearing the words 'orgy of the rich.'" Another protest outside staged a mock auction of public workers. The actions were in response to t
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Two European museum powerhouses, the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, have signed an agreement to temporarily swap 236 art masterpieces in what it is an unprecedented exchange between two major art institutions.
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When I heard about the Smithsonian's upcoming video game exhibition, I was filled with a sense of dread upon reading the press release's bolded title: “Smithsonian American Art Museum Invites Public to Vote on Games to be Featured in “The Art of Video Games” Exhibition”. They tout the voting like it
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I giggled like a giddy seventh grader with a boyfriend on Valentine's Day when I heard Hermann Nitsch, the forerunner of the Viennese Actionism movement, was showing in New York. Since his earliest works in the 1960's, Nitsch equalized the art-making process and spiritual ritual. The artist was head
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President Obama's proposed budget for the 2012 fiscal year includes cuts to funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Under the proposed budget, each organization's budget would drop by 13 percent.
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That New York Times staff photographer Damon Winter won third place in Pictures of the Year International's Feature Picture Story competition for his photo essay A Grunt's Life isn't surprising. The series of images shows an eloquent portrayal of daily life in a war zone for US troops in and out of
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As soon as those of us at Hyperallergic heard that Banksy was nominated for an Academy Award, we knew that drama had to follow. Here's the latest. The Academy had to grapple with what to do with an anonymous winner.
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We all knew Young British Artist Tracey Emin isn't afraid to say what's on her mind. From making her unmade bed into an art installation to appliqueing the name of everyone she's ever slept with on a tent, no one can say Emin doesn't bare it all. In this 1999 interview Emin gets even more personal:
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Through Finnish television, newspaper and blog media outlets, statements have arisen from Finnish museum and government administration that the construction of a Finland Guggenheim, the subject of a current feasibility study, may be funded by the decommissioning and closing of Helsinki's own local a
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With Sotheby's announcement of their sale of Guy Ullens' collection of Chinese contemporary art comes news that Ullens is divesting himself of his Chinese contemporary art museum in Beijing, handing it over to long-term Chinese partners. A major Ai Weiwei exhibition planned at the space was recently
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On February 2nd, a post published on now-Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass's blog categorically stated: “I would like the people of the world to know that today all of the Egyptian monuments are safe.” The post assures us that no major Egyptian archaeological sites have been seriously damaged besi