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As we dig through our Mail Art Bulletin submissions, our participants have taken to constructing a history of Mail Art through correspondence. We received three envelopes with references to Ray Johnson, the godfather of mail art.
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Ever since I moved to New York, I’ve been telling people that great contemporary art is coming out of my homestate of Oklahoma. Benrimon Contemporary in Chelsea is finally bringing some evidence to New York in the group show Red Country Pictures. The exhibit focuses on one particularly influential l
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If you don’t know the names of Pen15 Press, Wild Isle, For the Birds collective, Birdsong Collective, Burn Books and Brooklyn Arts Press yet, you probably should. These groups are producing indie art books worth a look, and form the center of Brooklyn DIY arts publishing. Yet even given the ready sc
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When I caught performance artist Man Bartlett around 4:30 pm EST yesterday, he had been in New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal for 23 and a half hours straight. Beginning on Wednesday, May 25 at 5 pm and continuing through 5 pm on May 26, the “#24hPort” performance saw the artist occupy both
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Artist Brian Dupont has been a longtime Hyperallergic pal. He describes is art as "a study of how the visual aspects of information can be conveyed — or distorted — within the framework of abstract painting." That visually abstract lexicon is often layered with words and letters to convey an added s
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Abstraction is a fickle shapeshifter. Outlines of horses and bulls in caves and geometric markings on ceramic flatware were the earliest embodiment of the craft. Since then, abstraction has travelled through an unbelievable number of incarnations. James McCoy Gallery recently took on the challenge o
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If contemporary art remains far too removed from daily life for some people, Briac Leprêtre's Like It Is exhibition at Parker's Box makes the case for exactly the opposite. On the walls of the Williamsburg gallery viewers encounter carefully constructed watercolors of unfinished domestic interiors a
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Tomorrow marks the opening of Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools, a full floor of new and recent work by the artist at the Whitney Museum. Lucky you, you get to see it a day early! I previewed the exhibition and came back with a photo essay featuring bowling video games, photoshop gradients, bad golfers and e
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This post is an image-only art mix tape of 5 works of contemporary art chosen around the theme of summer. It's my look at the oncoming season through art, specifically inspired by our recent humidity.
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You may have heard that James Franco and Lady Gaga are performance artists, that their careers themselves are art objects built up over a lifetime. You may also believe that your Uncle Bob farting the alphabet is performance art. And maybe it is! Really, it's up to you, there's no quick and easy cha
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The most visceral pieces in Brooklyn-based artist and activist Hunter Reynolds’ solo show Survival AIDS at Lower East Side nonprofit art space Participant Inc. are not, as one might expect, the blood splattered newspaper clippings screaming ominous headlines posted on the walls of the gallery. Rathe
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Today is the day! You may have been praying your whole life for this moment and it has finally arrived. Now what? The anticipation may be getting to you but we suggest a few things you might want to try before you get whisked away to the bosom of God. Here are our top five.