Canceling Donald Trump
And this isn’t so much about art as it is about using art in the worst way. This is a Pro-Trump rally masquerading as a performance art piece that is…
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Taking It to the Street
We had to ask everyone. Not just the people who looked “good” to get money from. And that was great because of course I was surprised by who responded and…
What Is the Meaning of Life? Ask a Curator
Hrag Vartanian reports on recent curator capers for Hyperallergic: #AskaCurator day was conceived by UK-based Mar Dixon and has been embraced by many museums around the world. Yesterday, to mark the occasion, two well-known art…
Don’t Throw Away the Pitt
You know when you’re watching a Brad Pitt movie and Brad Pitt is eating food in the movie and you’re not sure which you want more, Brad Pitt or the…
Trump Tribute Torched
At Hyperallergic, Benjamin Sutton gives us the latest in “Crimes of the Art.” It’s a tough world out there, especially for Trump tributes.
Subjectively Sporting
At Hyperallergic, Gretta Louw reviews a new exhibit in Berlin, Contesting/Contexting SPORT. The transdisciplinary exhibit seeks to address the gross fallacy that professional sports can be removed from the politics…
The Medium Is the Message
“Hoping this will aid in concealing your Sunday affliction,” read a card attached to the beige garment. “With the compliments of Clyfford Still.” In 1952, disgruntled abstract expressionist Clyfford Still sent art…
Signing off on the Future
For Hyperallergic, Allison Meier covers design ideas for nuclear waste warning signs, with scientists and artists around the world attempting to design warning signs that would deter humans 10,000 (or…
Sociology and Art with W. E. B. DuBois
Allison Meier writes for Hyperallergic on the hand-drawn, recently digitized data visualizations produced by W. E. B. DuBois (in collaboration with others) to demonstrate the size and scope of black…
Art Imitating (Imaginary) Life
Rubens Ghenov’s solo exhibit at the Morgan Lehman Gallery, Accoutrements in Marwa, an Interlude in Silver, has an interesting source of inspiration: For the past four years, Ghenov’s paintings have…
Understanding Palmyra
Why do we care so much about these ruins, while paying so little attention to the more recent past or present of Syria? Perhaps because we can assimilate these classical…
What Country… Should Give You Harbour?
Allison Meier writes at Hyperallergic on a speech, recently digitized by the British Library, that proves to be the only example of Shakespeare’s handwriting other than a few signatures. The excerpt…
