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Will Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower get built? The initially 1,250 foot project has already had its crown knocked off and it is now slated to be 1,050 feet high but no word yet about the final design, according to the New York Observer this week …
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Artist William Powhida has taken to Twitter for his latest project, “Everyone We’ve Never Met (from memory and imagination),” and he explains, "In another effort to broaden the project and to make the ideas of 'Everyone' mean more than Sheboygan and vacationers from Chicago in a way that I can still
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Boston's Museum of Fine Art is asking visitors to donate so they can add the 42-foot-high, 10,000 pound, 2,400 piece "Lime Green Icicle Tower" sculpture that is a highlight of the current Dale Chihuly show.
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This story brings a tear to my eye: "Supporters of the campaign to recall Michigan Gov Rick Snyder are reporting they collected more than 5,000 signatures during the Ann Arbor Art Fair."
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This week, Geronimo's eye, classic New York art dealer profiles, did arts reporting save the Rose Art Museum, in defense of bare walls, Uffizi's new iPad app, artist suppression, Frederick Law Olmstead on the US South, Marshall McLuhan speaking to high school students (circa 1960s), a video tour of
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A golden nugget from James Kalm's Facebook profile page and the birth of a fantastic new term, "vaginal surround sound."
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We've been catching up on our reading at Hyperallergic HQ and came across this quote by Wafaa Bilal in the Dubai-based Brownbook magazine (Issue 25) about the state of performance art in West Asia …
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Dear Onion, will you please have my baby? Here is their latest brilliance … "Most visitors to the art jail … said they were grateful for the opportunity to see the prisoners, though some acknowledged … [it] was emotionally complicated for them."
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After a two weeks on the road, I'm back in Brooklyn and again at the helm of Hyperallergic.
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Carmageddon 2011 might chiefly be remembered as the big transportation nightmare that wasn't [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carmageddon-20110719,0,5035874.story]: an accelerated work schedule, coupled with a couple million people in the Los Angeles area realizing they didn't need to drive
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This week's Required Reading has a talk by Ji Lee, Anthony Weiner on the street, Samarqand pics, Lucien Freud's subjects speak, the Museum of (in)Tolerance, Google image search changes, Matt Black's Mexican photos and James Schamus on art in times of crisis.
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This short video starring street artist Gaia creating a giant mural on the side of the Rag & Bone store on Houston and Elizabeth streets in Soho last week combines three of my favorite things: paintings by Pieter Breugel, time lapse photography, and giant roosters.