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So You Want to Start a College Art Museum...
HOLLAND, Mich. — When I first heard that Hope College was building a new art museum my first thought was: Why?
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Using Art to Stop a Pipeline
How do you halt the construction of a gas pipeline?
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Why the Small Business Jobs Survival Act Is Good for Artists
Last month, the Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA), which would provide New York City commercial lease holders — including artists — with greater renewal negotiation rights and housing stability, received four new co-sponsors. That means the SBJSA needs only three more votes to meet the 26 nee
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Artists Interpret a Colonial Collection of 125,660 Indonesian Specimens
Intended or not, the words used around collections set agendas, and what is collected and what remains absent is always political.
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A Chess Set in Homage to Marcel Duchamp, with Mustaches
Last year artists Scott Kildall and Bryan Cera collaborated on a project called "Readymake: Duchamp Chess Pieces," which reconstructed a chess set designed by Marcel Duchamp with a 3D printer.
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Two Artists Confront the Politics and Prejudice of Mourning in Israel
Earlier this month, artist Romy Achituv and writer Illana Sichel responded to the recent bouts of violence against Jewish Israelis and West Bank Palestinians with a poster project that uses a stark Israeli graphic language of mourning.
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One Artist's Quest to Turn Beach Plastic into Art
Confronting and unraveling the intimate relationship that contemporary society has with plastic is at the heart of artist Pam Longobardi’s mission for the Drifters Project.
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Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Charles Garabedian
LOS ANGELES — “I can barely remember doing all this,” Charles Garabedian says to me as he flips through the pages of his own museum exhibition catalog, which I have brought along.
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The Painter Infiltrating 'Good Morning America’ and ‘The Today Show'
Christie Blizard's paintings have been on national television more than a dozen times in the past year.
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Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Hank Pitcher
Hank Pitcher met me when I arrived in Santa Barbara, and as we made our first drive along the beach, he explained that it was one of the rare places with a south-facing coastline, which affects the light, surf, and feel of the area.
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Immersed in Painting, Sound, and Sculpture, a Detroit Artist Reimagines Space
DETROIT — Sound artist Jon Brumit seeks not only to reimagine the spaces where he works, lives, and performs, but also to ideally leave them in a better state than he found them.
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Political Cartoonist Ted Rall Discusses Being Dropped by the LA Times
Hyperallergic spoke with political cartoonist Ted Rall to get his view on his dismissal and on the state of political cartooning in general.