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We at Hyperallergic pride ourselves as the best possible source for all allergy-related matters in the art world, so you could imagine that we became very concerned when we heard Wolfgang Laib's "Pollen from Hazelnut" installation will be coming to the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art.
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I suspect everyone who's wandered around New York — or any major city, really — has had the experience of walking past a payphone and wondering about its fate. Public phones often strike me as the ultimate objects in transition, relics from a pre-digital age dotting the cityscape. It may be a coinci
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This week, the 20 tallest buildings of 2012, MoMA launches Louise Bourgeois website, the art market in 2013, Neil Gaiman talks about "making good art," a rare Hiroshima photograph, Zora Neale Hurston on zombies, and more.
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The other day, Hyperallergic's Allison Meier reported on snakes who are artists, rather than the other way around. Weekend Words ponders the distance between us and our beastly brethren.
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As soon as we published Samantha Villenave's essay "Kate Middleton Portrait Buzz: Art Criticism, Sexism, or Something Else?" (01/11/13), we immediately saw readers respond, particularly on Facebook.
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Richard Serra explains the role process has played in his artistic evolution. For the world-renowned artist it is, he explains, an integral part of his work.
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VALENCE, France — The internet has its royal panties in a bustle, once again. Today's unveiling of the portrait of Kate Middleton, or rather the British Duchess of Cambridge, met with gasps of horror, followed by a cascade of sarcastic media and Twitter wit. The subject of much of the outrage and ve
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Ma Yansong is the man behind MAD Architects, a Chinese studio that has made some of the most provocative buildings and structural proposals of the post-2000s. In a new video profile by Creators Project, Ma speaks to his design philosophy, and we get a sneak peek inside his Beijing studio, a natural,
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In honor of her death earlier this week, here are five significant reviews and essays by pioneering architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable.
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Here and there in recent months, there have been grumblings about Kickstarter burnout. There have also been Kickstarter indecision crises — how do you know when to pledge, and how much? — and Kickstarter skepticism. But to all the naysayers, nonbelievers, and doubters, Kickstarter might now present
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"Where Are We Now" is the first single from "The Next Day," David Bowie's first studio album in 10 years, and the surreal pop star is breaking the silence with something memorable — a music video created by Tony Oursler, a British video and installation artist known for projecting body parts onto su
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LOS ANGELES — 3D is experiencing a bit of a renaissance, what with 3D films and 3D GIFs becoming all the rage. Heck, you might count 3D printing into the mix, with printed cookies now possible. But I still long for a 3D practice that takes 3D past the simple fact of its three dimensions and gives us