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On Wednesday evening at 6 pm CST I was standing in a domestic violence shelter introducing my project "Everyone We've Never Met from Memory and Imagination" to a group of about twenty women. They listened politely as I showed them drawings of people like Gene Simmons, Brittany Spears (Snarling, head
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I understand why the metaphors between art and food work: art is "nourishing" to your soul; a chef is an "artist," his plate the "canvas," and so on and so forth. Unfortunately, these metaphors are such cozy bedfellows that they've all but become cliche. Which is why, when I first heard that a Neapo
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While exploring the New York Academy of Art's 5th Annual Summer Exhibition at Flowers, all I could think about was one person: director David Lynch. Not only because I am a fan of the master of the surreal psychological horror, but many of the works in the exhibition featured a similar eerie atmosph
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If Beijing has a Chelsea, 798 Art Zone, then surely it has a Williamsburg. That "alternative" neighborhood is Caochangdi (草场地). According to legend, Ai Weiwei moved out here in early 2000 to set up his studio and the China Art Archives and Warehouse. It was a strange move at the time, but galleries
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The mercury in your thermometer can easily climb to 100+ degrees during these dog days of summer in north Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. The concrete streets are helplessly desolate and even the Bushwick pigeons seem to have given up. Bushwick has been quieter lately, and the local art scene migh
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Williamsburg artist Joshua Abelow makes some pretty cool work. When he’s not in the studio he’s working on his website Art Blog Art Blog. Most of us now spend a great deal of our lives online, so its no surprise that the artistic process has begun to bleed over from the studio into the web.
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It's been nearly a month since we dismantled our mail art show, Presents: Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ. The show was a first in a lot of ways … but not all the mail art that was sent our way got to us …
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It was 1982 and it was just an ordinary night in the Bronx, Don with his wife Annie and I were sitting around talking and listening to music at their apartment. When the end of the record was over, Don got up to flip the side over. He suddenly turned toward us and we just stared at each other withou
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The point of last night's Marlborough Gallery show, POWHIDA, is probably that there are too many douchebags in the world, especially the art world. The character named Powhida, entered a Chelsea street-level Chelsea gallery and acted the part of a blue-chip contemporary artist.
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Zhang Peili (张培力), frequently dubbed the father of Chinese video art, has a retrospective ongoing at Shanghai's Minsheng Art Museum (民生现代美术馆). Dubbed Certain Pleasures (确切的快感), the show extends over two floors and three main gallery spaces, showing Zhang's videos and high conceptual work.
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Brazil is one of the fastest growing economies of the “developing world.” In fact, so much so that it is now considered an “NIC” or newly industrialized country, a term used to describe being in between "developing" and reaching "fully developed" status. Today, Brazil is looking towards a future as
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Rackstraw Downes doesn’t seem like a radical. He is an understated Englishman who paints understated American landscapes. But when you think about how much of modern and contemporary art relies on juxtaposition or exaggeration for effects, Downes’s approach begins to seem downright revolutionary. “M