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Beijing-based writer and art professional Melanie Wang brought to our attention the upcoming November 17th court case of Wu Yuren, a Chinese photographer and installation artist whose provocative work and political activism have earned him the nickname “Little Ai [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo
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In you’re in the ’Burg today or tomorrow, check out the fifth-ever annual vernacular printacular Brooklyn affordable print fair! Titled Prints Gone Wild! the event at Secret Project Robot Art Space [http://www.secretprojectrobot.org] (210 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — Google map [http://maps
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Last night to the accompaniment of much fanfare and celebrity attendance German conceptual “artist's artist” Hans-Peter Feldmann [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Peter_Feldmann] won the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize [Hugo Boss prize], a biannual award that comes with a cool $100,000. Feldmann wasn'
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A number of news sources are reporting that Chinese art great Ai Weiwei is under house arrest in his north Beijing home. “I am under house arrest,” Mr Ai told The Daily Telegraph by telephone. “They asked me not to go and to tell everyone the party was off, but I said I couldn’t do that and they’d h
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New York Art Book Fair kicks off today, so if you like print media AND contemporary art as much as we do (even though we're online), there's only place to be this weekend: MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, where the fair is being held. Hosted by AA Bronson, president of NYC art media shop and proponent
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A Facebook post is sometimes a dangerous thing. When Artinfo's “What's Troubling about the Smithsonian's Gay Art Show [http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36233/whats-troubling-about-the-smithsonians-gay-art-show/],” re-titled “What's Troubling About the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek Show,” article was post
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A rare Modigliani nude hit the auction block at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern sale last night, and the painting didn't disappoint. Bidding opened at $38 million and skyrocketed from there: five telephone bidders pushed the price up to a record-breaking $68,962,500, Artinfo reports [http://www.a
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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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Arts Council England, a group within the English governmental Department of Art, Media and Sport, is an organization entirely devoted to funding the arts, performing, visual and literary. In total, the council currently funds 880 arts organizations and events. In September, “Britain’s coalition gove
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Think the United States' image abroad could use some updating? Well, take it to your local Bronx Museum! The Bronx Museum of the Arts is at the head of a new US State Department program called smART Power [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149944.htm], an initiative to expand diplomatic art o
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A little birdie told us at Hyperallergic HQ that Ugo Rondinone’s "Hell,Yes" (2001) will be removed from its perch on the facade of the New Museum. The same little birdie told us that it is slated to be replaced by Isa Genzken’s 30 foot (8 meter) tall "Rose" sculpture. What do we think of the newest
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Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds at the Tate's Turbine Hall space in London opened to a good deal of rejoicing. Viewers and critics alike were entranced by the installation, a field of 100 million sunflower seeds that were actually carved from porcelain. An abundance of press photos show exhibition-goers