Art
Can Abstraction Help Us Understand the Value of Black Lives?
ST. LOUIS — Several months ago, I made the commitment to be away from New York City, my home and native land, for the duration of this summer.
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Comics
Trump's War on Subtlety
I know this week is supposed to be all about Hillary, but I'm still feeling kinda ill from the last one.
News
Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images
In December, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website.
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The Sinuous Lines of Influence Between Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
CLEVELAND — When I first saw the wall, I didn't see what was on it.
Podcast
Why Were So Many Women Excluded from the History of Abstract Expressionism?
In the fourth episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast we focus on the Women of Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Denver Art Museum.
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From Warhol's Grave to Elvis's Front Door, 10 Museum Webcams to Watch
From the world's oldest ham to corvettes crushed in a sinkhole, some of the greatest wonders of our museums are available 24/7 through online webcams.
In Brief
A Sculptor Imagines a Human Designed to Survive Car Crashes
Yesterday, I met Graham. I met him on MeetGraham.com.au. I met his half-formed teats, all 13 of them, and his thick, tough skin, and his knee joints that rotate 360 degrees, like a demon’s.
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Upbeat and Edgy
With the rise of artists desperate to align themselves with one compromised avant-garde tradition or another, it is useful to remember that Stuart Davis never fit in.
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The Shelf Life of Political Art
Tucked into a side wall at Postmasters Gallery in Tribeca, as part of a handsome group show called Grayscale, there are five new drawings by William Powhida, one of which is titled “Is Donald Trump an Existential Threat? Or Just A Major Asshole…”
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Hyperallergic and Smack Mellon Present "Art and Propaganda" on July 27, 7pm
What differentiates propaganda from art? Join Hyperallergic and Smack Mellon on Wednesday, July 27, at 7pm for a conversation.
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Fault Line
The first paragraph of Lev Manovich’s groundbreaking essay, “Database as Symbolic Form” (1999) came to mind about three minutes after I began pouring over the weird, wacky, wild and wooly stuff displayed under glass in Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive at the Hessel Museum of Art.
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Street Art Is a Period. Period. Or the Emergence of Intermural Art
Let’s start off with a clear contention. Street Art, as I see it, is a period.