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Rats, Potholes & Graffiti?
In his recent categorization of New York neighborhoods, statistician Nate Silver grouped graffiti with rodents and potholes. It was a criteria he used to gauge the Health & Wellness of a neighborhood.
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Art World Ikeas
A new generation of websites selling prints by contemporary artists are emerging as the Ikeas of the art world — they sell editions, from large to small runs, of different kinds of work, from traditional prints to paintings and drawings. At high volume and low prices, these sites make the most of th
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Join Our Social Media Art Roundtable on Facebook
Just as social media have quickly gone mainstream, we’re starting to see social media art received more attention from the mainstream art world. I’m currently writing a survey of social media art’s (brief!) history for Hyperallergic and as part of my research, I’ve invited a number of contemporary s
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Underpaid Labor at the Art Show
My friend was trying to convince me the other day that $20 was not an unreasonable amount for a museum to ask visitors to pay. We were standing in the lobby of the Whitney shortly after the Biennial had opened, and maybe I was having none of it simply because I was feeling snarky while remembering p
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New Banksy Stencils Surface in LA [UPDATED]
This week, Banky’s new film Exit Through the Gift Shop will hit theaters in North America. For complete listings, visit Wooster Collective, which seems to be the official PR agency for all things Banksy. The movie premiere's today in Los Angeles, so it’s no coincidence that these images hit the inte
Opinion
How the Art World Has Changed Since the 1970s
Artinfo’s Andrew Russeth writes about Jeffrey Deitch’s talk last Thursday at apexart [http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/34307/in-a-farewell-address-jeffrey-deitch-voices-ambivalence/] and what the gallery owner had to say about the difference between the art world then and today.
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Artists Go Hollywood: The Movie Posters
The impressive performance of Ed Harris in Pollock is the first thing that pops into my head when I think about the intersection of fine art and film. However, there are many more examples of Hollywood getting all creative and artsy … And so I say to Hollywood: Enough. Let’s branch out, diversify, a
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Klaus Biesenbach Responds “… Lady Gaga is an artist”
Today, David Byrne backtracked on his blog about his statement that Biesenbach told him that Lady Gaga wasn’t an artist … but the reason doesn’t seem clear …
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New 9/11 Museum Renderings Released
Last fall, the designs of the new 9/11 Museum were released and now the renderings of the exhibition design have been made public. I will reserve comment on the museum until after it opens, but I have to admit that I practically forgot this project was still in the
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Exploring Early Computer Art, 1950-1980
Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a period when only a few visionaries sensed the impact computers were going to have on our lives. The Slovakia-based Translab has posted a good online archive of early computer art from names t
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Friday Night Gallery Crawl: Postmasters, Flux Factory, Janet Kurnatowski, Storefront, Grace Exh. Space
It was Friday, April 2, and my mission was five gallery openings in one night: Postmasters in Chelsea, Flux Factory in Long Island City, Janet Kurnatowski in Greenpoint, and two Bushwick venues, Storefront Gallery and Grace Exhibition Space. It was an ambitious list to accomplish but my goal was set
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Art Professor Under Fire For Artistic Protests
Ricardo Dominguez, a visual arts professor at the University of California, San Diego, is under fire for electronic civil disobedience work. Today, the San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting that Dominguez is really feeling the heat from his university, auditors, and the police over a virtual sit-in h