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ArtRx NYC
This week, check out a radical Twilight Zone remix, experience a "House of Flying Boobs," listen to all of Moby-Dick read out loud, and more.
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"Demoiselles d'Avignon" Wins Critical Halloween's DEMOcratic People's Choice Award
We have a winner! The DEMOcratic People's Choice Award for this year’s Storefront for Art and Architecture Critical Halloween Costume Competition goes to "Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Francisco Rocha, Joana Bem-Haja, Joana Torres, and Sandra Shizuka.
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The Handmade Horns and Drone Music of a Fluxus Composer
“The performance is about 70 minutes long,” said 72-year-old composer Yoshi Wada, introducing his iconic “Earth Horns with Electronic Drone” at Soho's Emily Harvey Foundation.
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From Pyramids to Ostriches, Stereoscopic Views of Late-19th-Century Egypt
In the late 19th century, many publishing companies produced stereoscopic photographs as a way to commercialize images of foreign lands as people began to travel more frequently and as tourism as an industry boomed.
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Astrological Aesthetics: November 2015 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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What Will Become of the South Bronx?
The South Bronx is quickly becoming a nexus of competing interests vying for control of a housing and arts frontier that could become the next Brooklyn.
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An Artist’s Sprawling Universe of Sex and Death, with New Orleans at Its Center
NEW ORLEANS — During a recent tour of the Michael Meads retrospective at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, curator Bradley Sumrall jokingly credited the artist with single-handedly inventing the “hot redneck” genre with his photographs of young Southern men in various states of languid shirtlessness
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The Formal Challenges of Figurative Painting
Making sense of an overarching theme like “figuration” would seem a daunting task.
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"Like Trying to Shift an Aircraft Carrier": Museum Association Board President Calls for Greater Diversity
It's necessary for museums and historic sites to work toward greater diversity, even though trying to change thid field is “like trying to shift an aircraft carrier.”
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"Familiar, Unbidden": Finding Home with Elizabeth Bishop
Having grown up in seven different cities, there is no place I have ever felt particularly at home.
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Different Strokes for Jane, or Ekphrasis on Alexis
Pathetic, just pathetic, to expect Strangers to know your name I guess Such is the price of fame
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From Ireland, Photographer Doug DuBois’s Images of Fading Youth
“Youth is wasted on the young” is one of those clever-sounding, achingly wistful quips that have been attributed to various wags of assorted times and places, including the Irish writers Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.