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Most of the year, the art world's attention is focused on the big, international cities: New York, London, Miami Beach, LA, Basel, etc. But starting in the fall of 2009, ArtPrize put the far lesser-known city of Grand Rapids, Michigan on the art world map. ArtPrize quickly became famous in part for
Announcement
Artist registration is open now for the fourth annual ArtPrize. Part art competition, part social experiment, the event overtakes downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, bringing in hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the country. Designed to be a simple yet transformative experience for both art
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Today, ArtPrize, which bills itself as the most "radically open, international art competition and social experiment," announced it will be rejiggering its financial offerings to competitors with a more robust juried prize and less (but still) spectacular populist award.
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After revealing the Top 6 trends of ArtPrize from my position as a participating ArtPrize artist, I wanted to compose a second blog post for Hyperallergic that revealed the Top 10 Things I genuinely found interesting during this art event experience.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN — As an artist participating in ArtPrize myself, I had the amazing experience of not only visiting Grand Rapids for the first time, but also experiencing this mega-event for the first time. While walking around the city snapping pics, I was instantly reminded about my solo tri
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The idea of ArtPrize as an "open art contest" sounds fantastic, hell, even awesome, but if you thought all the art was going to be good than you were delusional. Enter ArtPrize Worst, the tumblelog. A selection of crappy art that thought it had a chance at the world's biggest art purse.
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Announcement
Artist registration is open now for the third annual ArtPrize. Part arts festival, part social experiment, part civic project, the event overtakes downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, bringing visitors in the hundreds of thousands.