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A New York Times Magazine profile of Pritzker Prize winning-architect Peter Zumthor shows the his work engaging with the spirituality of space and human history, and exploring the most basic aspects of our sensual experience. The profile highlights Zumthor's buildings as a return to the humanistic,
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Social media has brought the art community huge benefits, chief among them the ability to easily share artistic creations, whether it's through Twitter, Facebook or a group Tumblr. But is the possibility of easy creation and publishing diminishing our drive for making more ambitious works?
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This week on Required Reading … responses by William Powhida and Tom Moody to two Hyperallergic posts, poet Elizabeth Bishop's other art, John Ashbery on R. B. Kitaj, a conservative's opinion on street art, contemporary art as Mannerism and megalomaniac Zahi Hawass interviews himself …
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What's your sign? Chinese artist and international icon Ai Weiwei will be bringing his own custom-designed set of Zodiac sculptures to New York City's Plaza Hotel from May 2 through July 15, reports the New York Times. The works seem harmless, but they have a historical context that gives them a dee
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In 1977, a postmodernist theorist wrote that the destruction of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was "the day Modern architecture died." The idea was parroted by others as a convenient way to mark the end of something that they wanted to see as a failure, namely Modern architecture. Ente
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MIT's Media Lab just rolled out a new logo. The trick is that this logo isn't just one image, or anything you'd expect from traditional branding. It's actually a self-generating logo with over 40,000 possible variations, including thousands of shifts in colors and composition. Now, is there such a t
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Zakka in DUMBO has an assortment of art-related books, materials and other fun things related to J-pop, but I was after the art in the gumball machines at the back of the store. For $3 you get an Old Master … talk about sweet
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In honor of International Women's Day, here's a video of one of modernism's most enduring female painters, Georgia O'Keeffe. The artist had visited New Mexico on and off since 1928 but in 1940 she bought a house in Ghost Ranch. This video captures O'Keeffe at age 92, still in New Mexico, and still d
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The Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational devotional space in Houston, Texas, is home to fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko. Visitors come to the chapel for all sorts of reasons, from meditation to art appreciation. Check out this NPR piece for a few of the stories of the Rothko Chapel's visitors.
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Contemporary art definitely has its superstars, but art history? For this special day, Spanish painting celebrity and subject of a portrait by Velazquez, King Phillip IV signed autographs in front of his picture on view at the Metropolitan museum.
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Over the past week, we've brought you an enormous volume of art fair coverage. Art fair week may be over, but just in case you missed any of the events, we have your answer here: a Hyperallergic art fair cheat-sheet, with links to all of our separate articles plus a few from other blogs.
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The Armory Show 2011, though not mind-blowing, certainly had its highlights. But one piece that made me look twice, and then fall into a deep pit of failed artistic expectation, was Ai Weiwei's “My Surveillance Camera” (2010) at Galerie Urs Meile. It's a surveillance camera, but made of marble. Get