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Examining the Aesthetic Response to the BP Oil Spill
Various logos dreamed up post-Deepwater Horizon disaster: (clockwise from top left) arc312 for LogoMyWay, FuturisticLOGO for LogoMyWay, DrakePSolus for LogoMyWay, zoom-dg for LogoMyWay, unknown for...
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Honoring US Freedoms Through Dissent: Interview with Dread Scott
Dread Scott’s arrest during his protest flag burning in defiance of the Flag Protection Act in 1989. Photo via DreadScott.netHappy Fourth of July! — because no matter where you are or how you feel...
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Peeking Behind the Veil: Princess Hijab
(via twentysixletters.de)I sit down with my laptop in a quiet, central Brooklyn café, not far from Prospect Park on a slightly overcast day in August to interview the mysterious Parisian street artist...
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5 Observations from London’s Frieze Art Fair
Left, David Shrigley’s “I’m Dead” (2010); Right, I have no idea who made the fluorescent lumpy piece, which I mention in #4. (images by the author) (click to enlarge)This past weekend was the annual...
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The 2010 Turner Prize was announced last night, and Susan Philipsz was named the winner (against betting company William Hill’s unlikely odds of 16/5). Her piece, Lowlands Away, has been much...
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Greetings from Hyperallergic LABS
Janelle Grace, Hyperallergic LABS editorHey 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...
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Mail Art Bulletin: Mail That Travels
Editor’s Note: Vermin.me is a worldwide sculptural installation initiated by Jamie Burmeister. The Nebraska-bsed artist mailed us a box of three clay figures including some instructions (these are the...
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A Connected White Hedonist’s Guide to Young British Art
A Hedonist’s Guide to Art may as well be called A Hedonist’s Guide to the Art World. Released last winter, the book is a collaboration between Artica, an eGallery for contemporary art, and Hg2, a...
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Looking at London, Revolting!
Just a looter taking his poodles for a walk (via Photoshoplooter)LONDON — We are now six days into the unrest that started in the Greater London neighborhood of Tottenham, spread throughout London and...
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How Jonathan Safran Foer Taught Me About Roofies
The text was repeated four times around the circle, visible from any perspective inside, and appearing backwards from outside the curtain.LONDON — I thought I was going to see Jonathan Safran Foer live...
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A Question of Community and Conversations About Community: Creative Time’s...
A shot of this year's Creative Time Summit (photo by Hrag Vartanian for Hyperallergic)Last Friday, I attended Creative Time’s third annual progressive social practice-centered summit, this year held in...
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Can Living As Form Relieve My Liberal Guilt?
This is the view from the entrance to the exhibition. (All photos by author.)In order to properly follow up on my experience with Creative Time’s social practice summit, and given my heretofore lack of...
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The Many Views of Christopher Columbus
William Hogarth, "Columbus Breaking the Egg" (1752). This engraving plays up the image of Columbus as a radical, self-willed explorer. (via wikipedia.org) (click to enlarge)October 12, observed...
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Stumbling upon Serendipity at the Havana Biennial
El Gran Teatro, or the Great Theater of Havana, all decked out for the biennial (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)I have never felt I more fully embodied the role of “cultural tourist” than...
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Collection (Not) as Curation: How Exhibitions are Different From Libraries
The Reanimation Library in Proteus Gowanus (image via reanimationlibrary.org)Is a library collection like a curated exhibition? As the use of the verb “curate” proliferates outside of conventional...
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Students Occupy Historic Cooper Union Clock Tower to Protest Tuition Charges
Cooper Union’s Foundation Building, as seen from Cooper Park (photo courtesy Students for a Free Cooper Union)Eleven Cooper Union students have barricaded themselves within the school’s Foundation...
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Student Occupiers Call for Cooper Union President’s Resignation
Students Rachel Appel (right) and Audrey Snyder (center) speak to the press on behalf of the protesters occupying Cooper Union’s Foundation Building (all photos by the author for...
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Student Protests at Cooper Union Continue into Fourth Day
The new logo for Free Cooper Union (via @FreeCooperUnion)Yesterday, over sixty students in solidarity with the eleven clock tower occupiers demonstrated outside at the school’s board of trustees...
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Cooper Union Responds to Occupation During Supporters’ Day of Action
96 hours into the student occupation of the Cooper Union’s historic clock tower, Jolene Travis, assistant director of Public Affairs, Media Relations at Cooper Union released a statement to the press...
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