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Sources of Harm: Notes on the Alternative Artworld

Within and beyond the American artworld, the politics of race have assumed a central position this year with a degree of ugliness that feels particularly virulent.

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Over 100 Artists and Intellectuals Call for Withdrawal from Creative Time Exhibition

Over 100 artists and intellectuals — including Judith Butler, Lucy Lippard, Chantal Mouffe, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, and Gayatri Spivak — have signed on to a public letter calling on participants to withdraw from Creative Time's traveling Living as Form exhibition on the grounds that it is current

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Two More Artists, Chto Delat and US Social Forum, Withdraw from Creative Time Exhibition

Two more artists have joined Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency in withdrawing from the traveling iteration of Creative Time's Living as Form exhibition curated by Nato Thompson, Hyperallergic has learned.

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Creative Time Reneges on Promise to BDS Artists with Israel Exhibition, Artist Withdraws [UPDATED]

The revelation that a Creative Time exhibition curated by Nato Thompson has traveled to Israel unbeknownst to participants has drawn sharp rebukes from artists subscribing to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, including the immediate withdrawal of one artist contacted by Hyperall

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Sugar Coat: On Oscar Murillo and Kara Walker

In one of those useful coincidences of the New York art scene, two current exhibitions discuss global commerce and history, labor and money through one peculiar entry point: sugar.

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What Does Kara Walker's Sugary Sphinx Tell Us?

One of the season's most anticipated art events will finally open to the public tomorrow. Kara Walker's "A Subtlety," aka the "Marvelous Sugar Baby," is the renowned artist's first public artwork.

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An Artist Takes Feminism to the Stoops

"It's a utopian vision of Brooklyn, isn't it?" A friend asked this as we stood in the middle of her Prospect Heights block, watching people swirl around us, and I agreed. There appeared to be representatives of so many different races, ethnicities, genders, and economic classes, all packed into that

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Nick Cave’s Equine Exercise in Puppet Magic

I first learned about Nick Cave's work in an undergraduate puppetry class. Puppetry, like architecture and some other disciplines, is the synthesis of a myriad of techniques both artistic and mechanical, attracting sculptors, dancers, and engineers in equal number. Similarly, Cave's 30-strong herd o

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Nick Cave's Band of Horses Now Stampeding in Grand Central

Before Nick Cave's “Heard•NY” galloped off into its first performance of its week-long installation in Grand Central Terminal, the soundsuit artist explained that he wanted to "produce a piece that brought us back to a dream state." The 60 dancers from the Alvin Ailey School definitely gave the 30 f

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Creative Time Releases a Statement About the 2012 Summit Boycott

On October 12, during Creative Time's 2012 Summit we liveblogged the evolving boycott over what some people were calling a "partnership" with an Israeli organization that received funds from the Israeli government. Now the venerable arts nonprofit has released a statement regarding the event and the

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Artists Cancel Creative Time Summit Appearances Over Israeli "Partnership" [UPDATE 7]

Hip hop duo Rebel Diaz, artist Narcenio Hall and Cairo-based art collective Mosireen are boycotting the two-day 2012 Creative Time Summit in Manhattan because of what they are calling a partnership with an Israeli organization that is funded by the Israeli government.

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What's the Point of Sending Pictures into Space?

For his latest project, The Last Pictures, Trevor Paglen is doing something unconventional: he's sending photographs into space. Paglen, an artist and writer with a PhD in geography, worked with researchers and assistants at public art organization Creative Time to select a group of 100 photographs