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Is the Smithsonian Promoting a Pro-pollution Corporate Agenda?
A few paragraphs in the New Yorker story about the Tea Party-funding Koch brothers should scare the hell out of you and make you wonder if the Smithsonian has gone to far.
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Seton Hill University to Give Students iPads with Art
Last March, Seton Hill University announced it was giving its full-time undergrads and faculty iPads. Now they are going a step further for art history students and they want to outfit the tablets with Art Authority, an app that allows them to access 40,000+ historic paintings and sculptures.
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Hirst's PinchuckArtCentre Opening Sounds Bizarre
From Artforum: “In press notes, the exhibition is loosely termed a retrospective, but the majority of the works on display are new paintings, many making their world debut — and potentially final stop, if rumors are to be believed — in Kiev.”
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A Few Good Interns … Fall 2010
This summer we’ve been lucky to have three amazing interns who spent the summer letting me take them out for lunch while we worked together to throw events, plan and execute a blogging schedule, and talk about ideas, writing, art, and social issues. They each wow’d me with their enthusiasm and creat
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Louise Bourgeois Sculpture in NOLA Vandalized, Leaves Town [UPDATED]
Louise Bourgeois’s “Eye Benches IV” (2001) was loaned to the city of New Orleans in 2007 as a gesture of post-Katrina goodwill and the elderly artist had covered the $45,000 in shipping and installation costs, but sadly the sculptures were vandalized last month and now, according to the Times-Picayu
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Fisk University’s Georgia O'Keeffe Collection Goes to Court
The future of Fisk University’s priceless art collection donated years ago by artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and known as The Stieglitz Collection, may be decided at a trial set to begin tomorrow after five years of legal wrangling.
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Iranian Architecture Scares Tony Londoners
In what can only be seen as a sign of the coming apocalypse, the Iranian government has proven itself to be too futuristic and modern for the citizens of London’s South Kensington neighborhood. Critics of the building are even appealing to Prince “I hate modern architecture” Charles to help their ca
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Regina Rex Rises in Ridgewood, Queens
BushwickBk reports about Regina Rex, which is a huge space hidden on the third floor of an enormous former factory building that offers tightly curated shows and high-caliber art. It’s a space in Ridgewood (just north of Bushwick, Brooklyn) that you should know about.
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Short Films by Jonas Mekas Surface Online [UPDATED]
In light of yesterday’s shocking news that avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas is suing art dealer Harry Stendhal for a supposed swindle, I wanted to share one positive highlight of the business relationship between Stendhal and Mekas that just surfaced online … 14 short films, which include three epi
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BREAKING: Lebron James to Sign With Knicks After Jeff Koons Agrees to Redesign Uniforms
Sources close to Hyperallergic have learned, from sources close to artist Jeff Koons — and his 120 + assistants — that the artist of choice of the last gilded age has met with NBA player Lebron James this morning in a final pitch for the New York Knicks to land the basketball superstar. That’s right
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Sculpture is Dead: Art, Not Suicide (Part 3/3)
One of the definitions given by the OED for sculpture is, “as a type of silence or absence of movement of feeling.” After 700 hours of sitting ‘still as a statue’ and silently engaging a series of 1400+ visitors at MoMA, Abramović has completed what is being hailed the longest work of performance ar
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Sculpture is Dead: Art, Not Suicide (Part 2/3)
At its best, modern art begs the question, “Is this art?” There is a death wish that threads modernity – death of God, death of the author, death of history, even the death of the modernity itself (the post-modern) but perhaps most insistently of all, is the existential interrogation that is modern