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How do you determine the success of an exhibition — by the number of visitors, the tenor of their reactions, or some other gauge? That's the question Maria Novozhilova tackles in her assessment of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, which ended late last month.
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"Wrapped Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)" (2014) is a sculpture that is neither an object nor an image.
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This week, there's an indie comics fest, a holiday art sale, a magazine benefit party, an invitation to create an object of desire, and two film screenings, including Warhol's 8-hour static-shot masterpiece, Empire.
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A historic building on Millionaire’s Row seems an unlikely location to come upon contemporary sculpture, yet the old and the new are currently loosening each other up in a former party mansion on the Upper East Side. EXPAND//FOLD//COLLAPSE// Sculptures by Marta Chilindron features brightly colored,
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In "Search, Compile, Publish" I identify some of the tactics used by artists who make books and other printout matter in the post-digital print space: grabbing, scraping, hunting, and performing.
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This week, last chance to see the Statue of Liberty deconstructed, consider artists who excel in their old age, listen to the strange story of Alan Turing, and so much more.
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Starting today, Hyperallergic will be publishing an online catalogue for Hypersalon, a weeklong series of salon-style exhibitions, artist talks, and conversations on the conditions of networked culture in contemporary art.
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Charles Lang Freer and Ernst Herzfeld and are two names most people wouldn't recognize, yet both men were extremely instrumental in shaping the West's perception of Asia.
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Some unique artist books are currently on view at Christie's in New York.
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The current exhibition at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is titled, i found god in myself: The 40th Anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls. Though on its face this weighty title sounds empowering, ultimately it belies the exhibition and the or
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Currently on view in the exhibition Jasper Johns: Sculptures and Related Paintings 1957–1970 at Craig F. Starr is “Book” (1957), a work I suspect many people either don’t know about or are not likely to have seen, even in reproduction.
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Sam Lewitt is a young artist in a hurry. He was barely out of his twenties when he scored the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and right now he is filling both outlets of the Miguel Abreu Gallery — the modest space on Orchard Street and the immodest one on Eldridge.