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Yams Collective to Speak at Hyperallergic ArtTalk on Thurs, Aug 7
On Thursday, August 7, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring the Yams Collective — aka HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? — at their studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
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A First Look at the New SITE Santa Fe Biennial
SANTA FE — At this point it's hard to keep track of which type of art event there are more of: art fairs or biennials. There are art fairs that look like biennials, biennials that look like art fairs, triennials, pop-ups, and everything in between. But the trope of the biennial has long been a fixtu
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Street Art Subversion Goes Retro in Paris
PARIS — The City of Light is rightly recognized as an interesting place for street art, especially in the Right Bank's scruffier neighborhoods, where I am used to seeing plenty of it.
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Satanist Gallery Brings Charles Manson to Chinatown
A new gallery calling itself "the official art gallery of Satan" is reopening Friday in Chinatown, lodged between a gift shop and the True Buddha Temple Chinatown.
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If You Build It in Harlem
No Longer Empty's current exhibit, If You Build It, manages to avoid the ickiness of so many other art projects exploited to anoint development projects on the verge of fruition, and in an art economy that's popularized the practice of artwashing that's no small feat.
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Gilbert & George's Sculptural Life on Film
“Art for All” is at the core of artist duo Gilbert & George’s work, a slogan they champion in aiming to break from the trappings of an art scene they find elitist.
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A Noah's Ark of Stuffed Animals Draws Attention to Pollution
On July 17, a fishing boat traveled down China’s Huangpu River piled with 99 distressed stuffed animals. Camels, pandas, polar bears, leopards, and zebras clung helplessly to the dilapidated hull.
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Mapping 'Madeline' Creator's New York Haunts
Madeline, the smallest of the "twelve little girls in two straight lines" who lived in "an old house in Paris that was covered in vines," was born in Manhattan. In Pete's Tavern on Irving Place in 1938, Ludwig Bemelmans scrawled those first rhyming lines that would introduce his petite heroine of th
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Hyperallergic Heads to Art Southampton, Parrish Art Museum
Last Saturday, a diverse group of art enthusiasts, collectors, gallerists, art advisors, museum professionals, and artists joined Hyperallergic for a day trip to the Hamptons.
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The Design Battle to Sell, and to Stop, Smoking
In terms of breadth and controversy, two 20th-century advertising campaigns are almost unrivaled: the drive to sell cigarettes and the backlash to get people to stop smoking. Selling Smoke: Tobacco Advertising and Anti-smoking Campaigns at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale
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Giving Indigenous Stories a Voice Against Stereotypes in Video Games
From inhumanly buff, tribally vague warriors in combat games to targets in cowboys- versus-Indians epics, video game representations of indigenous people have been spotty at best.
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ArtRx LA
This week, there are a couple of new exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an intimate dance performance that runs through the month, and more.