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World of Warcraft (WoW) has a massive following: in 2011, some 10 million users participated in the online role-playing game. And according to a New York Times article from last year, women comprise an increasing numbers of those players and of online gamers in general: they are, apparently, one the
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This week, love of Minimalism, Nam June Paik in DC, alternative LA art spaces, non-European thinkers, Cyprien Gaillard speaks, unusual buildings, Gagosian is suing, a car chase comes to life, and more.
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With tomorrow ushering in Barack Obama’s second term as President, Weekend Words has the audacity to hope that F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong, and that there are indeed second acts in American lives.
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Less than a week after the art world went into practical meltdown mode over Paul Emsley's portrait of Kate Middleton, the British Duchess of Cambridge, a controversial 1953 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by artist John Napper was carted out after decades in storage. Why now?
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Grungy Williamsburg is a thing of the past. Warehouses can still be found around the neighborhood, but for the most part, they've slowly turning into more than just artist lofts, and the penniless bohemia of yesteryears has largely ceded their territory to bars, music venues, clubs, restaurants, cof
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From the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam comes this fantastic advertisement for their cafe. Do you get the joke? The quietly brilliant ad pictures a single coffee cup on a saucer, perfectly pristine except for the fact that its handle has been broken off.
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Chinese painter Liu Yi is tackling an extremely political topic: his rough-hewn, black-and-white portrait paintings depict Tibetans who have self-immolated in protest of the Chinese government's impact on their country.
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There have been artist statement generators before, and there will be more to come. In the meantime, however, I've found my favorite artist statement generator of all: 500 Letters.
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Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old internet pioneer, Reddit co-founder, and activist programmer who tragically committed suicide last week, made an intriguing entry into the art world last year at Rhizome's Seven on Seven conference, which brings creative technologists into collaboration with artists. Sw
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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.