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Required Reading
This week, the lowdown on Mark di Suvero's radical history, Terry Richardson's parents, street art in Cairo, Miami and without spray paint, word clouds and some erotic Austrian art of yesteryear … and some other great links.
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Guggenheim's Mind-blowing Maurizio Cattelan Installation
We knew Mauricio Cattelan's retrospective at New York's Guggenheim was going to be an attention grabber, but the installation tweeted today by the museum demonstrates that the curatorial team has taken the idea to a whole different level.
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Your Weekly Art Rx: Performa Edition!
This week's prescription is a heavy dose of Performa 11 with just a taste of the must-see highlights of this year's festival. The three-week event can be overwhelming, but thankfully the Hyperallergic doctor is in to help you through it.
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Is that a Donald Judd or Cheap Furniture?
An age-old question we've pondering endlessly is now an online quiz by Graydon Parrish and Mikhail Simkin over at Reverent Entertainment.
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#OWS Still Debating Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero's "Joie de Vivre" has inadvertently found itself in the middle of the biggest protest movement in America today and not everyone likes it. Now a small spat on on the sculpture itself raises some questions.
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Required Reading
This week, Occupy art, Picasso abodes, an artist on Iraq, UK art blogs, lo-fi pics and working as a culture industry serf.
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Your Weekly Art Rx
Here again is your weekly remedy to cure you of what ails you: a list of exhibitions and events that will serve as your weekly dose of art medicine. This week the doctor orders Beat Nite on Friday night, a Halloween blood fest and did we mention our editor is in a performance piece?
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Work of Art Recap: Naked Pixxx, Generally Too Much Information on the Artists Sexual Histories
This week’s Work of Art begins with the arrival of our intrepid artistes at the Phillips de Prury auction house. They follow a line of tin cans until low and behold! A mountain of tin cans! Next to one Andy Warol’s soup can paintings! Guess what kids, it’s time for a Pop art challenge!
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Ai Weiwei's "Enforced Disappearance" for W Magazine
For their 6th annual Art Issue, W Magazine enlisted the help of dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to art direct a photo shoot entitled, "Enforced Disappearance." Touted as "his first New York work since being released from government custody," Weiwei collaborated on these images first by email, the
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Is the Art World Disengaged "With the Real World"?
According to BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15436961], the former Turner prize-winner Grayson Perry has called the art establishment disengaged "with the real world."
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Occupying Art Things Has Officially Jumped the Shark
Leave it to the art world to make everything about them, a tendency that has become crystal clear over the past few weeks since the Occupy Wall Street movement began last month. First the race of anonymous Twitter handles, then it was museums, now it's (of all places) Artist's Space with the compuls
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Required Reading
This week, it's a mixed bag of artist interviews, design and social media infographics.