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Required Reading
This week, GO Brooklyn stats, LA MOCA's big picture problems, postmodernism quo vadis, a posthumous memorial in NYC, Jeff Koons' 70% cut, fashion and homophobia, Ground Zero/Zuccotti Park and more.
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Post-Office Worker Befuddled by Abstract Expressionism
You might assume that when a person or an image has made it onto a US postal stamp, it's gained mainstream approbation. The stamp might even spread that acceptance and influence, making more people aware of the subject. I'm inclined to agree. But this morning Hyperallergic marketing associate Kara R
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Art-World Cliques
In an essay just published on his blog, gallerist Ed Winkleman writes about “the dialogue” in the context of the art world, a murky concept that seems to encompass everything from critical conversations of aesthetics to growing currents in contemporary art to the ongoing filtration of the art commun
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Billionaire Art Fight: Perelman v Gagosian
New York billionaire Ron Perelman is filing for "divorce" from his art mentor/dealer Larry Gagosian and the two A-listers are battling over three art works worth over $25 million.
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Apple’s iPhone 5 and Getting Angry at Planned Obsolescence
At their hyped-as-ever product launch yesterday, Apple announced the iPhone 5, a new version of the classic that’s longer, thinner, and lighter. The new phone is four inches long (adding 176 pixels to the height of the display), has a faster internet connection, and a better processor. So why do I f
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What Does "Outsider Artist" Even Mean?
A post by my fellow editor Kyle Chayka got me thinking about the "outsider artist" designation and the different ways people define it.
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Required Reading
This week, the philosophical meaning of beauty, Ai Weiwei's LES education, mega-exhibitions, online fakes, Chardin's strange self-portrait and more.
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Bringing Wabi-Sabi to Technology Makes Us Appreciate the Effects of Age
As technology becomes ever slicker and ever thinner, a trajectory pioneered by the smooth curves and sleek lines of iconic Apple products, designers have been going out of their way to give these products a more natural, human touch. The dominant trend these days seems to be for iPhone and iPad acce
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3D Video Artist Wendy Vainity is the Henry Darger of the Internet
Does Wendy Vainity actually know what she’s doing? The 48-year-old native of Adelaide, Australia is one of the weirdest YouTube users I’ve ever come across, with a collection of homemade 3D animations that range from the surreal to the creepy to the outright bizarre and disturbing.
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Green Footprints Make a Green Tree
Chinese artist Jody Xiong, who's collaborating with the China Environmental Protection Foundation, placed large white canvases on 132 crosswalks in 15 cities in China. As each person crossed, they picked up a small amount of green paint on their shoes, which they left as trails on the canvas.
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Wall Street Goes Down in Flames at Burning Man
Artist Otto Von Danger (aka Otto Ewen) has created "The Burn Wall Street Project" at this year's Burning Man and set it on fire.
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Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?
Art historian and associate professor at New York’s CUNY Graduate Center Claire Bishop has taken to the pages of Artforum’s September edition to issue a kind of rebuke for contemporary art. She argues, in an extended essay that only briefly detours into egregious artspeak, that though the new realit