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Talk about art going big: the New York Times reported last night that the Whitney will mount an enormous Jeff Koons retrospective as its last hurrah in the Breuer building, before moving downtown in 2015. Probably out of necessity as much as for flair, the exhibition will take over the entire museum
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The Hartford Courant reports that one of the world's great unsolved art thefts may have a new lead.
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Where are the arts donors and why aren't they pressuring Washington?
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It seems fitting that artist Yayoi Kusama's characteristic polka dots appear in a children's book and in the trippy Alice in Wonderland no less.
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All Your Beatbox Are Belong to Us. I'm not kidding.
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This week, occupy design, Seven on Seven, Mr. Brainwash copyright case, brutalism's savior, literary New York, Damien Hirst in London and more.
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Google salutes Keith Haring on his birthday today with a homepage doodle. The American street artist turned pop culture darling would have been 54. Here are a few places to see Harings in New York today.
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Today is May Day, the international day of workers, and here at Hyperallergic we're proud to lend our support to Paddy Johnson of AFC, who is spearheading a petition [https://www.change.org/petitions/sotheby-s-offer-your-art-handlers-a-fair-contract] to show one of the world's largest auction houses
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LOS ANGELES — Orwell's "Why I Write" is a gem, and I'm glad it made it into Longform's recent Top 50.
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LOS ANGELES — Expanding on the question as to while most artists are poor, one project explores who isn't getting paid what they're owed.
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Ossian Ward has a feature in Art in America this month about the dismaying trend of bigness in the contemporary art world. The piece is an exploration of a problem that's only been growing (no pun intended): art as a series of bigger and better spectacles, upstaged only by the vast and cavernous spa