Essays - Hyperallergic (Page 32)

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Seeing Glass Boxes and Shards at Dia:Beacon

At Dia:Beacon there is an installation by Fred Sandback, a series of giant shapes formed from brightly colored string.

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Madness in My Family

When Saroyan, a biography of my father William Saroyan by Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford, was published in 1986, I was coming off a five-year run during which I wrote three books about my family and couldn’t handle sitting down to read another word about them.

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The Story of Reviving a Community Art Center in Battambang, Cambodia

I arrived in Battambang, Cambodia, late last year via a 5-hour bus ride from Siem Reap.

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Tokyo, Mon Amour: The City in Photos, as Monster and Muse

In East Asia, sprawling, dynamic, constantly changing Tokyo has a long history as a seductive subject and muse for innovative camera artists, but that tradition and the remarkable, often unexpected images it has produced are still not so widely known in the West outside a relatively small but growin

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'Back to the Future' 30 Years Later, or Riding in Cars with Millennials

One of the greatest pleasures of teaching design history to college students is time travel.

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The Story of a Pope Portrait Made Out of Condoms

MILWAUKEE — It’s not unusual for a work of art to cause outrage, especially if it dips into the tender zones of race, gender, or religion.

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How Artists Can Help Us Conceive of New Flags and Monuments for the US

All flags bear the stain of conquest.

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“The Curator,” an Art World Fantasy: Excerpts

The Curator woke up one morning to the alarming realization that she understood nothing about art and that it was possible that she would never understand anything about art.