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Southampton Adventures with Hyperallergic
Last Saturday, a diverse group of more than 50 art enthusiasts, collectors, gallerists, art advisors, museum professionals, and artists joined Hyperallergic for a day trip to the Hamptons.
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The Day Portland Stood Still
CHICAGO — Kirk Crippens's photographic series Portraitlandia is a visual manifestation of that surreal moment when quotidian life, a hit television show, and a curious photographer converge.
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Museum Gets Shafted: An Elevator Pitch for Curiosities
It's been over a year since we visited the opening of Museum, the diminutive institution housed in a Cortlandt Alley elevator shaft in Lower Manhattan, so I recently stopped by to see their summer exhibition. The show is more like an eclectic installation of 15 small exhibitions, from tip jars to Ch
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A Shadowy Plane in the Cave
Serkan Özkaya's "Mirage" (2013) was an ominous presence at the beta launch of the new Postmasters Gallery space in Tribeca.
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The Camaraderie of Living in the Skies
The smell of recycled air, thin blankets, and fantastic uniforms are all signs to me that I am going “home.” Though “home” is not necessarily where I was born. At 19 years old, I have created a fluctuating notion of home for myself, with each place representing and holding another part of myself, of
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Where Is the Money? Detroit, Stadium Bonds, and Municipal Funding For Culture
When Michigan governor Rick Snyder recently affirmed that Detroit's $650 million hockey stadium, to be financed with a mix of $450 million in state bonds and private moneys, won't be derailed by the city's economic woes, the stark contrast with the fate of the city's beleaguered art museum could not
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How We Picture Civil Rights
Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement shoulder an unreasonable burden: we look to them as moral beacons. Bruce Davidson: Time of Change at Howard Greenberg Gallery displays several dozen rich images by Bruce Davidson, who sat with the freedom riders and joined Martin Luther King, Jr.’s march from
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The Hidden Power of New York City's Everyday Objects
Can one single object encapsulate the dense knot of energy that is New York City? An exhibition is trying with 62 objects, selected by 62 people who all dwell in its diverse, sprawling bounds.
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Walking on Mirrors Until You Bleed, and Other Images from a Performance of Poetic Pain
Is it better to see a man walk on broken mirrors until his toes leave bloody red prints across the panes, or listen to the mirrors irregularly shatter in darkness?
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Is High-End Art as Social Practice a Form of Commodity Activism?
CHICAGO — At its most rarefied levels, art as social practice seems oxymoronic. Is it possible to produce work that jars the elitist art world out of its aesthetic bliss while appearing on its sanctified white walls? Probably not. Cheryl Pope's solo exhibition Just Yell at Monique Meloche Gallery ir
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Gimme Shelter: A French Artist Retreat Crowdsources
It seems idyllic: a cluster of artist-designed shelters lining a river by an old flour mill in pastoral Brittany, France. This vision of a creative retreat is one that is close to being realized, although they're angling for an extra push to get them there.
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Art Rx
Summer continues in New York, and it's time to make the best of it! There's tons of good stuff to do this week, from the soft reopening of Postmasters gallery to a show of webcats comics to art books on sale.