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The 2015 Armory Show in 23 Superlatives
The 2015 Armory Show delivers pretty much what you'd expect of the 2015 Armory Show: some quite good art, some pretty bad art, and a lot of completely harmless stuff in between.
Andrew Ohanesian
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Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows
Between the proliferation of galleries in Bushwick and, to a lesser extent, Greenpoint, the small cadre of Dumbo galleries sticking it out, longtime heavyweights including the Brooklyn Museum and BRIC mounting ambitious shows, and Creative Time parachuting Kara Walker's sugar sphinx into the Domino
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Home Is Where the Art Is
Normally when art lovers want their fill of domesticity, they might head to somewhere like the Brooklyn Museum's fourth floor, where the decorative arts galleries are filled with a series of dark but striking, low lit period rooms, and even two full-scale 18th-century Dutch farmhouses from Brooklyn.
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Photos from Hyperallergic's 3rd Anniversary House Party
Last Friday's celebration of Hyperallergic's Third Anniversary far exceeded our expectations, and we were delighted that everyone joined us for the birthday of the World's Greatest New York Art Blogazine. Over 400 people arrived over the course of the evening to raise bottles of beer, provided by Br
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Is There Any Such Thing as a Fake Party?
At 8 PM, things were maybe a little awkward at Brooklyn artist Andrew Ohanesian’s “House Party” installation at Pierogi’s The Boiler space on a heavily industrial street on the border of the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods. The beer was just beginning to flow and guests congregated in smal
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Fuck Grad School, Let's Have a House Party!
“This is the biggest dumb idea I've ever had,” Andrew Ohanesian told me late one night over Budweisers at Pierogi gallery’s massive auxiliary space, The Boiler Room, in North Williamsburg. “There's nothing I hate more than a good idea.” Ohanesian often selects “really stupid” ideas for his art that
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Wandering Through Bushwick Open Studios
Never have I been so happy to see a portrait of Betty White. After three trains and two shuttles, and a few failed attempts to get a taxi, I was finally in Bushwick for the 2011 Open Studios.
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Bushwick Brought the Party to NY's 2011 Scope Fair
Perhaps going directly from the Armory to Scope was a mistake. At a significantly smaller scale, lower budgets, and complete with an indoor smoking room and a cash bar manned by none other than Bushwick artisanal pizza powerhouse Roberta’s, Scope Art Fair New York was very much like a Bushwick openi
Opinion
What Others Are Saying About #Rank
Earlier this month, I sent out a call for comments on #Rank [http://www.hashtagclass.com/], a project created by artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton, who were the masterminds behind #Class (Winkleman Gallery, February 2010). The following are the responses we received from across the country
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Miami's Seven Art Fair Goes Indie
The buzz [http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/11/23/a-map-and-itinerary-for-the-miami-fairs/] before Miami was that Seven Art Fair [http://www.seven-miami.com/] was going to be one to watch and that is certainly the case. This indie fair of seven galleries with solid programs — and some art stars among t
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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