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Both Councilman Brad Lander and Shehab Chowdhury, one of the volunteer facilitators, tried to put it politely, but arts-related projects haven’t fared well in the participatory budgeting process in New York City thus far.
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During the annual Miami art fair week, the art world descends on the city in the sun, and this year we're trying something new. Hypersalon is a weeklong series of salon-style exhibitions, daily artist talks, and hosted conversations examining networked culture in contemporary art.
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Everybody to the polls! No, we're not talking about the US elections tomorrow — although you should also go to those polls — we're talking about Hyperallergic and the Storefront for Art and Architecture's annual Critical Halloween costume contest.
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Photography, which has been in existence for roughly 175 years, is now an everyman’s medium. The 1888 Kodak #1 camera first made the art form broadly accessible; the iPhone has now turned everyone technically proficient. But before Kodak, and long before Apple, photography was a laborious endeavor.
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Catherine Murphy calls herself “an observational painter,” but that modest self-characterization tells only part of what she has been up to for the past twenty years.
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What most struck me about the now notorious Michelle Grabner review in the October 24th edition of The New York Times was that it was, unusually, surrounded by reviews of other painters.
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Despite its inclusion of more than 130 works on paper and canvas, the ravishing retrospective Egon Schiele: Portraits, occupying the third floor of New York’s Neue Galerie, leaves you hungry. Not for more art, because there’s plenty of that, but for something else, something to make whole an ineffab
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PARIS — I admit that I was nearly fed up with Paul McCarthy’s pretentious zombie provocation — and its sudden removal.
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Zombies have never been my favorite supernatural creatures. I find them kind of depressing — the way their flesh hangs off their rotting bodies, their lack of agency and intelligence, how they’re usually killed in such graphically violent ways.
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In one of his last great performances, Harry Houdini escaped after 90 minutes from a coffin submerged in the swimming pool of New York's Shelton Hotel (today the New York Marriott East Side).
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If you want to hear a terrifying ghost story this Halloween, look to Japan.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Stepping into a dingy and suffocatingly small cell, you're immersed in an intense soundscape of horns and the chanting of Tibetan monks. It’s overwhelming, and as the noise builds and bounces around the cold cement room, you wonder if this is akin to the feeling of being trapped insi