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World-renowned street artist Swoon is installing her newest work in the central hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art and photographer and art historian John D'Addario was there to capture a glimpse for Hyperallergic readers.
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In advance of Ryan Trecartin's upcoming exhibition at PS1, the artist has released a trailer teaser to get us all excited for a new batch of video works.
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In classic Chairman Mao fashion, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had his face plastered everywhere in the country as pro-government propaganda. In cities overtaken by Libyan rebels, artists are turning those same images against Gaddafi in works of street art.
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This week's Required Reading features mashed-up video games, a lost e.e. cummings poem, an indie arcade review and a museum just for you.
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New York Times visual columnist and famed designer Christoph Niemann is at the 2011 Venice Biennale, documenting his experiencing with the contemporary art festival in a series of sketches.
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Love it or hate it, Allora & Calzadilla's entry to the US Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale is a showstopper perfectly tuned for the art world's version of the Olympics.
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This week, Will Ryman's "The Roses" installation along Park Avenue are saying bye bye. But when I spotted them yesterday all dug up with their "roots" exposed, I thought it somehow completed the work.
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I love aesthetic battles and I secretly miss the war of subcultures (through style, of course) that was a staple of the late 20th C. Think mods vs punks, but in a Manhattan (ballet shoes, of course) vs. Brooklyn (sneakers, wassup) kinda way. I spotted this today and it stopped me in my tracks. Me li
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In a twist strangely echoed by the actor's recent art-world novel An Object of Beauty, Der Spiegel reports that Steve Martin is the victim of a German art forgery ring. Martin purchased what he thought was Heinrich Campendonk's “Landscape With Horses” (1915) for $850,000. Turns out, the painting was
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Richard Philips might be better known in the art world as a photorealist painter, but the painter just turned videographer with an art project-cum-advertisement for celebrity and tabloid icon Lindsay Lohan. The work is “a 90-second ad for her more sober self,” according to Linda Yablonsky at T Magaz
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@MuseumNerd, that anonymous art personality on Twitter, has blogged an interesting graphic that lists the attendance to New York museums, their Twitter following, and how they measure up.
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Jeff Koons's art collection, thoughts on LA MOCA's questionable art history, Invader in Paris, a tour of the Calatrava building in Milwaukee, something fishy about Warhol, iPhone photography and corporate culture and the US government … all on this week's Required Reading.