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Live Tweeting the Arts
LOS ANGELES — If some reject the idea that culture can be engaged with through your smartphone, others are finding ways to do exactly that, particularly using Twitter.
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Beach Boys, Artists and Copyright Lawsuits
It’s a cruel world that makes a thief out of an adoring fan. Erik den Breejen is a keen Beach Boys fan and one who knows, now, what the back of a beloved hand feels like.
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In Case it Rains in Heaven
The heart of a society is most open when dealing with death. Its spoken and unspoken fears and hopes, both for life and the afterlife, are embedded in rituals of remembrance and memorial. In China, this has taken the form of detailed objects made of Joss paper that are burned for the deceased.
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Is Punk, DIY Art in NYC Going Down With The Building?
Sitting in a cold performance space in the gritty, graffiti-ed punk art institution, ABC No Rio, for possibly the final time before the building is demolished for renovations in March, watching the last Michael Alan's Living Installation performance, I became profoundly worried that I was witnessing
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You, Me and The DMZ: Imagining North Korea
North Korea is so wacky they have their own calendar system, and it marks its centennial anniversary in 2012, the birthdate of the late Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un’s grandfather. Dovetailing neatly with the recent passing of Übermeister Kim Jong-il, A Postcard From Afar: North Korea From A Distance at
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The Struggle for Coherence
The other day, at a small cocktail party, a literary agent told me that he liked writers who knew and wrote for their audience. Our conversation soon sputtered out because I didn’t see any value in disagreeing with him. A few minutes later, a writer confided that he would keep working on a manuscrip
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Sassily Serious and Seriously Sassy
I set out with the intention of seeing these shows, so I wouldn’t call it synchronicity, but the simultaneous exhibitions of David Goerk and Martha Clippinger in the same building, just one floor apart, did get me thinking about art making that is concerned with the realm between painting and sculpt
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God’s Eye View
Somehow I missed the 16,400 internet posts reporting that the ill-fated luxury liner, Costa Concordia — presumably still on its side in the waters off Tuscany’s Isola del Giglio — was the setting for the first act of Jean-Luc Godard’s latest feature, Film Socialisme (2010).
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Art Hack Day Is Tomorrow at 319 Scholes
Tomorrow, the doors of 319 Scholes open for the public unveiling of the 48-hour projects that were given birth to during Art Hack Day at the East Williamsburg art/tech space.
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Goodbye, For Now
Today is my last day at Hyperallergic, and as much as I hate saying goodbyes, I can't leave without reflecting on the amazing journey this has been.
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Smells Like Art
Christophe Laudamiel is not a purist. “I love fabric softener,” asserts the world-renowned perfumer turned high art dissident. While he’s no snob about lowbrow smells, his exhibition Phantosmia - All But the Smell, which opened on Wednesday at the Dillon Gallery in Chelsea, is an olfactory treat. Ph
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Is Cariou v Prince Killing the Big T?
‘Transformative use’ is just mucking things up. That’s what I think. Providing a pivot for the Cariou v Prince case and the only real point of interest no matter what the pundits say, transformative use, instead of the fog-clearing test that it was supposed to be, has become the main particulate in