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This week in art news: Nestlé filed a trademark infringement claim against artist Anthony Antonellis, the much beloved Showpaper ceases publication, and a Zaha Hadid building in Vienna is shedding its exterior.
How Celebrity Fandom Inspires Digital Feminist Curatorial Practice
Rea McNamara, the new Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellow for Curators, offers insight into the evolving world of curated online feminist spaces and what role they do and can play in our culture.
Merry Armenian Christmas
It may be a new year, but the holiday season continues and we’re celebrating today.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from Hyperallergic!
May you be with those you love.
A Deep Dive into Digital Art
Some people spend Christmas Eve going to mass or sitting around a tree; others spend it eating Chinese food and going to see a movie. If you don’t have any family or friend traditions to adhere to, or if you do but want an escape, one possibility I’d recommend is to spend this late afternoon/evening digging into digital art via The Wrong, a new online biennial.
Artists Auction Their Facebook Profiles
Organized by Bailey, Mathé and Hunt, a one-day event placed artists’ social media profiles up for bidding.
Charting New Territory in the Art Blogosphere
In the world of art blogs the economic models are few and most have yet to be proven, but Art F City (AFC) is trying something new through a booth at this year’s Nada New York art fair, where the Brooklyn-based site and fellow Nectar Ad cohort has decided to try their hand at selling art.
Old Favorites and New Surprises at Moving Image
There’s a problem inherent in the basic premise of a video-art fair. On the one hand, it’s refreshing to see artwork at a fair in different media than painting, works on paper, and the occasional sculpture, which are the usual standbys at fairs because they’re easier for a quick sell. On the other, the format doesn’t really suit video art, because fairs are not designed for extended looking. While it feels like an increasingly glaring omission these days to not see more multimedia work at fairs, there’s also reason why that’s the case.
Cloaque’s One-Year Anniversary Project Harnesses the “Collaborative Potential of the Internet”
For the one year anniversary of the Tumblr artwork “Cloaque,” founders Claudia Maté and Carlos Sáez decided to do something a little different; they pushed their Tumblr project and added a collaborative video. In case you missed it, “Cloaque” is one of my favorite Tumblrs. It is an endless collage made possible through collaboration by notable net artists from all over the world; I wrote about it last year.