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Nuclear Tropics by Space Slave Trade

As a preview to tonight's #TheSocialGraph exhibition opening at Outpost (6-9pm) check out one of the pieces featured in the show, Space Slave Trade's “Nuclear Tropics” (2010).

Interview

Jennifer Dalton Talks Social Media Consumption

This is the second in a series of interviews with artists, writers, and personalities involved with #TheSocialGraph, which opens today (November 12, 6-9p). For more information, visit hyperalleric.com/thesocialgraph [http://hyperalleric.com/thesocialgraph]. Jennifer Dalton stepped right into the hea

Art

Gagosian, Google Invest In Art Start Up Art.sy, But Why?

Vaguely-defined art startup Art.sy has found some pretty incredible backers, among them some of the biggest names in both contemporary art and tech. Larry Gagosian, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Russian heiress and contemporary art world butterfly Dasha Zhukova and Wendi Murdoch (wife of Rupert) are team

News

3-Day Bushwick Art Weekend

There's no excuse not to come out to New York’s greatest up-and-coming arts neighborhood this weekend. Not only is our own #TheSocialGraph [http://hyperallergic.createsend1.com/t/y/l/qjjhul/oghujluy/j] show opening this Friday night (6-9p) at Outpost, but emerging gallery Famous Accountants will be

Opinion

Basquiat Defaced in Paris, But Does it Matter?

An attacker “brandishing a felt-tipped pen” has vandalized a Basquiat painting on display at Paris' Modern Art Museum, the Daily Mail reports. Yet the victim, a work called “Cadillac Moon 1981,” (seen at left) “is of such an abstract nature that it took at least a few days for experts to notice the

Opinion

Who Was Robert Shapazian? Reflections On Art + Money

When Christie’s recently became a sponsor of Hyperallergic, I knew little if anything about Robert Shapazian, whose important contemporary art collection [http://www.christies.com/features/2010-october-the-collection-of-robert-shapazian-1021-1.aspx] was advertised on this site and sold this week. Th

Opinion

Alec Soth Says Art Books Don’t Get Reviewed

Despite the 2010 New York Art Book Fair getting quite a fair amount of press attention, photographer and fair participant Alec Soth feels that it wasn't exactly the right kind. His criticism lies not with the fair itself nor with its PR, rather, his opinion that critics don't often go out of their w

Books

NY Art Book Fair 2010 Overwhelms With Possibility, Hipsters

The trek out to PS1 for the 2010 New York Art Book Fair [http://nyartbookfair.com/] took me on the E train to Long Island City, away from Hyperallergic's Williamsburg office. Yet somehow, the population of Williamsburg had followed me there. The concrete colonnade and ramped steps leading up to PS1'

Opinion

Killer Criticism by @Powhida

Sometimes I wish a 1000 words could kill a picture. #criticism — William (@Powhida) November 10, 2010 I guess the old adage is wrong, how about 10,000? Art would be so much more fun if words had this kind of power.

Opinion

Art Vocabulary of the Day: Ostranenie

I thought I'd share with you a term that I encountered in my internet wanderings this morning, found in this essay by Dana Ward [http://blog.sfmoma.org/2010/11/dana-ward-on-cory-arcangel/] on artist Cory Arcangel, hat tip to Modern Art Notes' excellent Wednesday link post [http://blogs.artinfo.com/m

Announcement

[Sponsor] Pulitzer Foundation Launches Online Catalogue for Ann Hamilton's stylus

If the voice's call is the origin of speech - with its ability to hail, summon, or bestow a name - then perhaps the hand, raised to touch, or signal at a distance, is its silent counterpart. These two gestures form a call and response that provides the structure for stylus, a project created by Ann

News

First-hand Account of Ai Weiwei's "The River Crab Banquet" by Rachel Marsden

It’s worth your time to read the whole thing [http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/post/1525958345/the-river-crab-banquet-images-and-report-from-rachel], it has some GREAT photos! [@aiwwenglish [http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/]]