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The Brooklyn Museum has posted an archive of its 1st Fans Twitter art [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/support/1stfans_twitter_art_feed.php]. The Twitter Art Feed was a benefit for @brooklynmuseum [http://twitter.com/brooklynmuseum]'s 1stfans (formerly @1stfans) members from December 2008 to December
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Man Bartlett's "Kin" during the last day of #TheSocialGraph [../thesocialgraph] exhibition. We will have a photo essay tomorrow and there are a few more podcasts on the way, but last Saturday we threw a closing party for the show, which featured livestreaming of Man Bartlett's "#24hKith [http://manb
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WATCH LIVE NOW at manbartlett.com/kithandkin [http://manbartlett.com/kithandkin/] This performance was created as part of his participation in #TheSocialGraph [http://hyperallergic.com/thesocialgraph] and his residency at Hyperallergic HQ [http://foursquare.com/venue/135446] in Williamsburg, Brookly
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Man Barlett’s “Kin” is located in the main gallery of #TheSocialGraph exhibition at Outpost. It is one half of his work, “Kith and Kin” (2010), which was specially created for the exhibition.
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Last Friday, the virtual art world became the real one as fellow Twitter followers met one another in reality, Facebook friends shook hands and a certain performance artist crossed the thresholds between digital and analog. During #TheSocialGraph's opening at Outpost in Ridgewood, a growing communit
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In two weeks, #TheSocialGraph will open at Outpost in Bushwick, Brooklyn and we’re incredibly excited. What is #TheSocialGraph? It is an evolving exploration of the burgeoning field of social media art and the relation of contemporary art with this populist tool as a medium, facilitator, and subject
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The last day of the Marina Abramović’s “The Artist Is Present” at MoMA was marked by a frenzy of activity both IRL and online. The veteran performance artist has proven that her art form has come of age and it can hypnotize a whole city — and art world — into believing or “unbelieving” that she’s th
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Organized in collaboration with Paterson Arts Council, Lambert's Escape From New York exhibition includes work by 43 top contemporary New York artists. The artists include such 2010 Whitney Biennial talents as Bruce High Quality Foundation and Kate Gilmore, but there are some emerging and even some
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Thanks to everyone who came out for our informal six-month anniversary celebration, which quickly became a big ol’ party at our rather new Williamsburg office.
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Over the last two days, artist and Hyperallergic contributor An Xiao has been leading and moderating a discussion on the Hyperallergic Facebook page [http://www.facebook.com/hyperallergic] on the nature of Social Media Art. Today, the discussion continues but first let’s look back to see what has be
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Just as social media have quickly gone mainstream, we’re starting to see social media art received more attention from the mainstream art world. I’m currently writing a survey of social media art’s (brief!) history for Hyperallergic and as part of my research, I’ve invited a number of contemporary s
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It was Friday, April 2, and my mission was five gallery openings in one night: Postmasters in Chelsea, Flux Factory in Long Island City, Janet Kurnatowski in Greenpoint, and two Bushwick venues, Storefront Gallery and Grace Exhibition Space. It was an ambitious list to accomplish but my goal was set