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Today is Art Museum Day! The unofficial holiday means deals at art museums all over. In NYC, the American Folk Art Museum, Bronx Museum and Museum of Art & Design are all free. Click through for others.
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In the latest who’s-suing-whom story, six origami artists have filed suit for copyright infringement against artist Sarah Morris for jacking their crease maps to use as a basis for her colorful Origami series of thirty seven paintings. My first thoughts: Morris cannot lose this one. We have mass-mar
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Director of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Alison Klayman hit the Colbert Report last night to talk about the Chinese artist's arrest and his current situation. Click through for the video clip.
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Seven on Seven is an annual conference hosted by Rhizome and the New Museum that pairs seven artists together with seven technologists to collaborate on projects created in a 24-hour period. The event's second outing was last Saturday, May 14. The first question that came to my mind while attending
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Prospect 2011 continues at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego until July 10, 2011
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Seven weeks ago, Hyperallergic began collecting Mail Art for our Mail Art Bulletin [http://hyperallergic.com/tag/mail-art-bulletin/]. Now, we are super excited to announce a new leg of our Mail Art project! In tandem with Northside Open Studios, Hyperallergic will be curating a Mail Artshow from Jun
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This past Friday May 13th marked Williamsburg 2:ND Fridays, a night of gallery openings and exhibition unveilings. I trekked around the neighborhood from the far north Causey Contemporary all the way down to Like the Spice gallery and checked out the shows. Here are my findings, in photo format.
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It's only natural that some mail art should focus on the envelope as its an integral part of what "mail art" is. So, today we're posting a collection of envelopes we've received for the Mail Art Bulletin.
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Can't figure out how to fill up your culture diet this weekend? We've got your back, with Williamsburg Gallery Night going down tonight and Man Bartlett's 140 hour-long Berlin performance streaming all weekend, plus Su Friedrich's MICROSCOPE Gallery opening and the Seven on Seven art-tech collaborat
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As part of the Festival of Ideas For the New City anchored by the New Museum, a group of major artists have sprinkled the Bowery with murals. In collaboration with the Art Production Fund, painters including Mary Heilmann, Richard Prince and Jacqueline Humphries created murals for the roll-down meta
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Obama laid a wreath at the base of the former World Trade Towers right after Osama had been buried at sea. And, as if on cue the utopian “Festival of Ideas For the New City” launched, vowing to “harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to
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When director Victor Ruano was a teenager, he wanted to make a movie that could reflect in time, sound and images what that still painting said to him. In his mind, it stood as a description of certain aspects of his society and the country of El Salvador. He would dare to say, that in a sense El Ca