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Reflecting on "Maximum Perception" & Tons of Photos
Some thoughts about last night's liveblogging experiment at English Kills art gallery and high quality photos from each of the performances.
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Liveblogging "Maximum Perception" at English Kills
I'm liveblogging Maximum Perception Performance Performance Festival tonight and you're along for the ride. So far, we've traveled from a Catholic school to African tunes to an auction to free bouncy rides to a man in his underwear getting text messages from the audience ... and more ....
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The Very Unofficial Miami Art Fair Awards
When you endlessly wander art fairs for days on end you start dreaming up awards and when you write for a blogazine you publish them ... here they are for your amusement.
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Hyperdocumentation: Better Than the Real Thing?
This summer, I tried to go see a free David Byrne concert in Brooklyn's Prospect Park but to no avail. The next morning I looked up the concert online and immediately found masses of documentation ... the concert had been reconstructed online so thoroughly that I didn't really feel like I'd missed i
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Art or Home Decor? Art Basel Miami Is Your One-Stop Shop
In an attempt to answer the age-old question -- Is it art or home decor? -- I perused the halls of Art Basel Miami to see how galleries are serving the lifestyle needs of the rich and famous.
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Last Night at Wynwood Walls: Fairey, Stelios Faitakis, Los Gêmeos, Swoon & Sissy Bounce
Outside of the major art fairs there's dozens of other art things to see and do in Miami, including Wynwood Walls, which featured a bootilicious Sissy Bounce performance, art by Fairey, Swoon, Stelios Faitakis, Los Gêmeos, and more.
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Art Burn Report
If looking at art is fun, watching it burn is great. There's something cathartic about attending an event dedicated to the destruction of art in the middle of the world's largest art fair bacchanalia.
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Attack of the Miami Art Fairs: Art Basel Miami 2009
In the belly of the art market beast, Hrag is wandering Miami in search of the ultimate art fair experience. First up is the landmark Art Basel fair in South Beach.
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Just Say No: Santiago Sierra Takes Manhattan
What happens when in the name of art you ride through Manhattan in a truck hauling ginormous letters that spell the word NO? Lyra finds out.
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Recently on Hyperallergic, An Xiao's “Cover Art, or Vito Acconci Gets a Follow Back,” made the case for artists who choose to directly reference or re-stage existing artworks. She draws a comparison between derivative works and cover songs. This may be an apt comparison, but she glosses over an impo
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Anxious Freedom: After the Berlin Wall
It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the popularized images of people cheering and celebrating in front of the greatest symbol of the Cold Wall tells only part of the story, says Daniel Larkin. The day after was filled with more anxiety than recent media narratives would have y
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Cover Art, or Vito Acconci Gets a Follow Back
An Xiao organized a 40th Anniversary tribute to Vito Acconci's "Following Piece" (1969) for @Platea, the social media art collective she performs with. She likes to call what she did a form of "cover art" and she explains why.