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Ancient Mayan Temple Destroyed in Belize
The shocking destruction of a Mayan archeological site that dates back to at least 2,300 years is raising serious questions about the safety of Belize's cultural heritage and archeological sites.
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Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City Art World Stronghold, To Close
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For more than 20 years, John O'Brien's Dolphin Gallery has been a cultural and community epicenter for Kansas City artists. Located in a huge white wall space in the West Bottoms, a historical area in downtown Kansas City, the Dolphin is the size of a barn, and embodies the charis
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Occupied Cooper and University President's Bizarre Seclusion [UPDATE]
If getting fired is unpleasant, what of that special hell where hundreds of your staff and colleagues publicly call for your resignation? Just ask Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha, whose imperious refusal to communicate even the most threadbare reaction to his mounting critics has added a new
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Charting New Territory in the Art Blogosphere
In the world of art blogs the economic models are few and most have yet to be proven, but Art F City (AFC) is trying something new through a booth at this year's Nada New York art fair, where the Brooklyn-based site and fellow Nectar Ad cohort has decided to try their hand at selling art.
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Andrea Bowers Protest Letters Taken Down Overnight at Frieze [UPDATE]
The labor headache continued apace on Randall's Island this morning, as Susanne Vielmetter arrived at her eponymous gallery to find Andrea Bowers's much-discussed protest letters taken down and the entrance of her cube cordoned off by a white string. "I'm shocked," she told Hyperallergic, "I never e
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UK's Controversial Declassification of Crafting as a Creative Industry
A proposed declassifying of crafting as a creative industry in the UK has the the country's cavalcade of craft makers bristling. The broadly and ridiculously named Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) released a paper in late April directed at evaluating the creative industries, including
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Teamsters Shift Course, Frieze Sponsor Deutsche Bank Now a Target
According to documents received by Hyperallergic, the Teamsters have decided to renege on their announcement, made at last month's City Hall press conference, to not target Deutsche Bank in their ongoing challenge of Frieze New York's labor practices.
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BREAKING: Students Occupy Office of Cooper Union President [UPDATE 5]
At roughly 11 am today, a group of 30 students occupied the offices of embattled Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha. Bharucha himself is not present, however, and unlike the previous occupation, the students have not barricaded themselves in and are being allowed to freely enter and exit the bu
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Is it Time to Blow Up the Art Fair Model?
Occupy Museums thinks the art fair model needs to be reworked. Occupy Wall Street’s art offshoot has announced a new initiative, DebtFair, which seeks to radically deconstruct the commercial art fair. After essentially sunning themselves in a distant corner of Frieze New York last May, distributing
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Upheaval Galvanizes Cooper Union
In a memorable appearance at St. Mark's Bookshop in the fall of 2011, Slavoj Zizek held forth on the importance of saving the bookstore from its then-impending eviction from a Cooper Union-owned building, referring repeatedly to the predatory landlord as "the Union Cooper." The mangy Slovenian's mal
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Totally Uncool Jokers: Barbara Kruger's Conceptual Comeback to Supreme Lawsuit
Earlier this month, Complex covered Supreme's hitting Leah McSweeney of clothing line Married to the MOB with a $10 million lawsuit for copyright infringement, as McSweeney did a parody of the streetwear label's logo as "Supreme Bitch." Rightly, Complex wondered what the conceptual artist who inspir
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Thorncrown Chapel's Ozarks Oasis Under Threat
The architecture of Thorncrown Chapel, with its soaring windows inviting the verdant depths of the Ozarks, is a study in instilling peace. Yet a new plan may shatter the tranquillity by installing invasive power transmission lines just outside its pine and glass walls.