Art
Online Art: Tedium Is the Medium
Online exhibition space The State has a new show up: Jacob Broms Engblom's “wShare” is a fetishization of those internet moments when we're just caught waiting.
Review
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Tribeca Film Fest Special: In Saint Laurent Film, Opposites Attract
When fashion impresario Yves Saint Laurent was once asked to name his favorite poet, he paused for a moment, smiled and spoke Pierre Bergé’s name in a soft tone. This “poet” was the designer’s devoted companion for over fifty years. He was also the impresario that ran the logistics of the Yves St. L
Performance
Pen Meets Pick: Screaming Females and Doodle Drag Perform
Screaming Females are one of those bands who are just that good; they have an unwavering idea about who they are and what they want to do, have worked relentlessly to get where they are and have retained their weirdo aesthetic throughout. In the past two years, the band has gained the attention of i
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Artist Interventions as Sugarcoating
The Studio Museum in Harlem's Fall 2010 Studio magazine, a publication that functions as newsletter, press release and behind-the-scenes peek at the museum's operation, doesn't exactly look institutional. This edition is covered by a mottled, fibrous layer of paper that obscures the magazine itself.
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Online Art Space Goes Virtual Green
From ASCII sunsets to screen-flattened foliage, Artist Laurel Schwulst makes parks for the internet. In a temporary exhibition called Proposals For Future Parks shown on internet-based art space bubblebyte.org, the artist uses different media approaches, both online and off, to explore the abstract
Books
Meditations on Celebrity Over Millennia
Lapham's Quarterly is a quarterly (duh) publication edited by Lewis Lapham (also duh), former Harper's Magazine editor from 1976 to 1981. Each issue of the staid, stately magazine focuses on a single theme; previous themes have included “The City,” “Sports & Games,” and “About Money.” Drawing on wri
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An Elusive Photographer Caught on Film
You may have seen him on a bike somewhere in Manhattan, a flashing presence in a blue coat. Maybe he was at a gala or a fundraiser, if you happen to frequent those kinds of events. But where it’s easiest to find Bill Cunningham these days is in the pages of the New York Times, with his weekly fashio
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Australian Millionaire's Museum Tries Something New (And Old)
In 1999, the National Gallery of Australia cancelled a planned exhibition of Sir Charles Saatchi’s Sensation, a collection of art focused on the work of the Young British Artists of the 1990s, on the grounds of the possible offensiveness of many of the works included in the show. Several of those wo
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Peruvian Adventures in Brooklyn, a Graphic Review
Many of you will know that I've been critical of the conventional art review and how it doesn't appear well suited to a lot of art that is produced today. So, in the interest of trying new art review forms, I've given a shot at using the graphic novel format for my review of Celso's ¡No Habla Españo
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MoMA Hits the Streets With Newsprint
After stopping in to Hyperallergic's local coffee shop one morning, I noticed something interesting in the newsstand next to the Village Voices and L Magazines. I took a closer look. MoMA's logo? On a newsprint publication? The Museum of Modern Art is refreshing an old form of advertising to get the
Art
Math and Art Together at Last
I never would have imagined stuffy mathematics and playful chance could blend in peaceful harmony, let alone lead to the series of subdued yet provocative drawings on display in James Bills’ current exhibition Golden Parachutes and Tin Handcuffs at Yes Gallery in Greenpoint. Only an artist adept in
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Artist's Hearts for Sale
In addition to a thriving street art practice that includes putting hearts and cute doodle faces on everything from farm silos to city walls, artist Chris Uphues also makes little printed goods. This week, we're checking out two of Uphues' zines as well as a selection of day-glo colored hearts print