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As another step in its history of supporting the art community, Pernod Absinthe has kicked off its 2nd annual contest to find great original art inspired by both the classic liqueur and the year 1805, when Pernod Fils began distilling in France. The Creator Of Art Contest is an open call for artists
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Jim Herbert’s paintings of naked lovers are not for the feint of heart. At first glance, viewers might want to look away as though catching a glimpse of a couple kissing. And some people will totally avert their eyes from these intense canvases. At the opening for the recent show at the English Kill
Opinion
As soon as we heard [http://hyperallergic.com/11464/hell-yes-isa-genzken-new-museum/] that Isa Genzken’s “Rose” will replace Ugo Rondinone’s “Hell,Yes” (2001) on the exterior of the New Museum … we immediately thought Photoshop! Our little digital collage experiments suggest that fiction is often mo
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Picasso would have turned 129 today, if the polymath artist, sculptor and co-inventor of cubism hadn't died in 1973 at the age of 92. Born in 1881, the artist rapidly commenced almost a full century of being awesome. So today we will put this Jonathan Richman song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZW
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If you happened to be hiding under a social media rock for the past few days, you might have missed the Guggenheim museum's short-lived multimedia/indie band/internets extravaganza that was their Youtube-sponsored “Play” biennial. The biennial was in reality a juried exhibition that anyone could sub
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A little birdie told us at Hyperallergic HQ that Ugo Rondinone’s "Hell,Yes" (2001) will be removed from its perch on the facade of the New Museum. The same little birdie told us that it is slated to be replaced by Isa Genzken’s 30 foot (8 meter) tall "Rose" sculpture. What do we think of the newest
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Inspired by the closing of Ai Weiwei's “Sunflower Seeds” installation due to health hazards, I've been writing about how environmental impact is factored in to the evaluation of installation art. Does a work of art have to have a low carbon footprint to be great, or should we completely separate a p
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Every week, we'll recap the best comments we've received on Hyperallergic's posts, whether that's on the blogazine itself, on Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook. Be sure to check in every Friday for new comments. This week, check out responses to our Powerless 20, additions to our list of dangerous works
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Last night, Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum was transformed into a futuristic new media award’s show venue as the finalists of the first Play: A Biennial of Creative Video biennial were announced to a crowd of Google, Intel, HP, Guggenheim employees (all sponsors of the event), artists, and new media
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Despite his image of a crotchety old traditionalist, David Hockney hasn't been one to shy away from new technology. The artist, best known for his 60s portraits painted of California intelligentsia, has been making drawings and paintings on an iPhone since 2009, and recently scaled up to an iPad, us
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When we talk about art, we rarely talk about its environmental impact. What's the carbon footprint of manufacturing a fiberglass Jeff Koons versus the making of an Andy Goldsworthy? As opposed to, say, water bottles, the cost of making a work of art rarely factors into how the work is analyzed and a
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Out across the pond, there's an art fair going on. Only slightly overshadowed by the Ai Weiwei Turbine Hall installation debacle, London's Frieze Art Fair has been soldiering on nonetheless to bring collectors to the art, and vice versa. We've combed over the internet to bring you some impressions o