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LA Street Artists Not Letting Deitch Off the Hook
The Blu/MOCA whitewash censorship incident isn't going away as some street artists continue to draw attention to LA MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch's lapse in judgment.
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Babe-watch on Google Art Project
You know it was hilariously inevitable that someone was going to cruise the walls of Google Art Project checking out the hotties and collect them all into one place. Well, Chicago Now blogga Taleen Kelenderian just did that and she has labeled her favorites with such hipster-ific monikers as "Ginger
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A Subversive Chinese New Year, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei
Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Rabbit began this month, and fireworks have been rocketing off in Chinese cities ever since. In celebration, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s FAKE design office has created a contemporary version of a Chinese New Year’s tradition: Door Gods for 2011 (seen above). Th
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Richard Serra Cleans Off Desk, Makes Art
Richard Serra may be best known for his curving steel wall sculptures, but his earlier works erred even more on the side of conceptually abstract. The artist's 1967 “Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself” kicked off a body of work in which a single verb directly translated into art. Ch
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What Is the Most Expensive City to Visit Museums?
According to Leah Sandals's charticle over at This Magazine, titled "Admission Impossible," the answer to that question may be Toronto. Gaze at her chart and be amazed.
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Greetings from Hyperallergic LABS
Hey readers, I'm Janelle, the managing editor of the Hyperallergic LABS tumblelog. For the un-initiated, “tumblelog” is the name for a blog hosted on the free platform Tumblr, which utilizes a fairly simple interface for short-form posts. Images are often the most popular posts on Tumblr, but text a
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Denver Museum Re-Install Heralds Rethinking of Native American Art
The re-installation of the Denver Art Museum's American Indian art galleries has an important new feature: individual artist names are now included on its wall labels. The comprehensive re-installation heralds a new move towards recognition of the history of Native American art, as well as Native Am
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Required Reading
This week on Required Reading … William Powhida has devised a new power axis of art world affirmation … New York Observer explains the thing called the "professional collector" … at Idiom they ask an important question "Can an art experience be authentic even if the status of the work of art remains
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Curator Paola Antonelli Talks Design and Technology
space If Hyperallergic was a teen magazine, Museum of Modern Art design curator Paola Antonelli would totally be our crush of the moment. In this video, from Vice's Creators Project, see Antonelli discuss the “communication” that takes place between people and technology, through the medium of desig
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Required Reading
This weekend's Required Reading brings us up to speed on the situation of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, plus catches up on some of the things we missed while breaking the news, from movies demystifying the myth of the artist to video games histories and questions of morality and happiness.
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The Studio Visit, A Comedy
In our book review from last week, we looked at the art-world comic book Adventures of Grossmalerman, the often-bloody satire of a bad-boy German painter. This video episode of Grossmalerman lampoons the classic cliche of a studio visit: a standoffish critic takes one look at the artist's latest can
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Damien Hirst Leading Spin Class at Davos
The personal foundation of Damien Hirst’s friend and hunting buddy, Victor Pinchuk, is inviting the Davos elite to produce a spin painting with the formaldehyde man himself using the artist's spin painting machines and, according to the Pinchuk Foundation press release, "specially delivered to Davos