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White Like Me
"White Ambassador" is a provocative title for an art work in America and it is the title of artist Nate Hill's latest work that tackles race.
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Turning a Beloved Novel into Art (Prospect 2 Spotlight)
NEW ORLEANS — Of all the stories about New Orleans, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the most universally beloved. So an artist who attempts to engage it in a different medium has their work cut out for them from the get-go: anyone who's read Toole's posthumously published come
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Who Do Benefit Auctions Really Benefit?
America has finally woken up to discover that the free life they thought they were living is really governed by a system. A system designed at first glance to be “for the people, by the people.” But in recent years we’ve all realized that this is furthest from the truth. Facets of the system are und
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Help Hyperallergic Win a Prize By Voting Online Now
Hi Hyperallergic fans! Hyperallergic is in the running for a blogging award in Russia worth thousands of dollars and WE NEED YOUR HELP! Click here to head straight to the poll [http://aifaar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=62&Itemid=73&lang=en] (it's In Russian) and cli
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Can We Trust a Photograph?
CHICAGO — I was standing in front of a large black and white photograph by Angela Strassheim in the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. It appeared to show the interior of a boring suburban home, complete with bad furniture and family photos in ugly frames. Everything seemed normal, nothing
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Martha’s Tongue or Our Pseudo-Sexual Relationship With Food
DETROIT — This Thanksgiving you should pay attention to the texture of your food, how you use your tongue to lash out and taste your food, and how you digest your food. Why? Isn’t that kind of creepy? Um, yes, it is kind of creepy, and lusting over your food may upset your family members’ stomachs.
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5 People Are Asked to Decode Blue Curry's Ambiguous Sculptures
Blue Curry does not like to intervene between the audiences experience of his artwork. His first solo exhibition in the USA opened last week at Toomer Labzda Gallery in the Lower East Side and it attracted the attention of a number of art professionals, a fashion magazine blog and curious passersby
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About Change, the Limits of Freedom and an Attack on Fear
Standing outside the Judson Memorial Church on Saturday night, two days after the Day of Action and the same week of the raid on Zuccotti Park, I, along with a group of art lovers, artists, Occupy Wall Street protesters and random passersby, watched people being turned into living art objects by art
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5 (MORE) Bushwick Galleries You (Probably) Haven't Been to Yet
It’s official! Bushwick art scene is exploding! Last month, we brought you a guide to 5 new galleries in Bushwick. It’s only November, and we are already forced to amend our list with five more galleries that recently opened in the Bushwick area — 950 Hart Gallery, AIRPLANE, Botanic, Sardine and Stu
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Art, Tech and the Tropics: Writing on Philippine Contemporary Art
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — What's up, Hyperallergic? I'm excited to begin blogging again more regularly this month. I've just landed in Manila, the bustling capital of the Philippines, to begin a month-long writing residency at Green Papaya Art Projects.
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Engaging Turbulence at One of New York's Only Smithsonian Institutions
The Carl Beam retrospective now at the National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center in Lower Manhattan could be a response to the museum itself. Located in the imposing Alexander Hamilton US Custom House, a monolithic reminder that New York City was originally built on European immigration, th
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Sophie Calle Brings Her Baggage to New Orleans (Prospect 2 Spotlight)
Sophie Calle moves into New Orleans' 1850 House for her Prospect 2 installation and brings dozens of objects and stories with her — with mixed results.