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hyperallergic We’re Off to Miami!

Williamsburg or Miami Beach? Some things are simply universal. (photo via Flickr, phil h) Things have been slow here on Hyperallergic since we’re preparing for a week-long trip to Miami for the annual art world mating ritual known as the art fairs. I can’t imagine a better way to spend a week than schmoozing, shillin...g and sashaying with immoral art dealers, desperate artists, and bored art collectors (or at least we hope...
Posted:2009-12-01 16:18:26 GMT
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Houri Geudelekian
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Yeah!!! keep us posted on what is going on down there!
4 hours ago
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hyperallergic We're getting ready to go to the Miaimi art fairs ... anyone else going?

Joanne Mattera
Joanne Mattera
Dinner Saturday night to celebrate our panelizing? (www.artbloggersat.blogspot.com)
November 26 at 7:48am
Karla Marie Ostolaza
Karla Marie Ostolaza
I'm an art blogger from Puerto Rico, excited to attend the panel on Saturday.
Sun at 12:56am
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hyperallergic Just Say No: Santiago Sierra Takes Manhattan

Santiago Sierra’s "NO" Truck Takes Manhattan (photo by the author) Last Saturday, I took the subway up to the United Nations building to hunt down a flatbed truck carrying giant black letters spelling the word NO — an artwork by Mexico City-based provocateur Santiago Sierra. “NO” is spreading its terse proclamation of... dissent throughout the Western world at the moment with a one-day stopover in New York (as part of Performa 09)...
Posted:2009-11-25 19:43:58 GMT
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hyperallergic Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Hypermedia: Critical Issues in Contemporary Media Art is a column written by artist Artie Vierkant for Hyperallergic. Each article discusses an existing or emerging theme in practices at the intersection of electronic media and the arts, drawing from the contemporary and the historic, the pervasive and the obscure. You... stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you...
Posted:2009-11-24 21:31:23 GMT
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Shaun Belcher
JOIN THIS GROUP IF YOU BELIEVE THIS IS SIMPLY PR FOR SAATCHI NOT ART AND THAT CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE U.K. HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A SUCCESSION OF PR STUNTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CREATORS. X-FACTOR FOR...
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hyperallergic China Establishes Contemporary Art Academy, Tyler Revitalizes N. Philly, Brooklyn Girl Faces Fine for Chalk Drawings

Officials and artists at the opening ceremony of CACC. (photo via Global Times) Twenty-one Chinese artists, including Zeng Fanzhi, Yue Minjun and Fang Lijun, have become the first group of appointed artists at the Contemporary Art Academy of China. Founded by the Chinese Ministry of Culture’s Chinese National Academy ...of Arts, CAAC is the first official organization devoted to the research of contemporary Chinese art....
Posted:2009-11-23 17:04:09 GMT
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hyperallergic Anxious Freedom: After the Berlin Wall

Hans Haacke, "Death Tower," (1990). Temporary Installation, courtesy the University of Sttutgart In 1991, Art in America’s contributing editor for Germany, David Galloway, flagged down a cab in East Berlin and asked his driver to take him to the equivalent of Bloomingdale’s in West Berlin. His cab driver confessed tha...t he only knew roughly where it was and suggested they look at the new map of Berlin together....
Posted:2009-11-20 16:54:28 GMT
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hyperallergic The Corin Hewitt & Molly McFadden show "Double Room" at Recess has been extended till Dec 19!

http://hyperallergic.com/1172/hewitt-mcfadden-double-room/

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Recess opened on Grand Street in September as a storefront artist residency space open to the public, and their inaugural show by Corin Hewitt and Molly McFadden, Double Room, tackles questions of replication, authorship, documentation, labor-as-performance, and collaboration.
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hyperallergic Corin Hewitt & Molly McFadden Play Double at Recess

Recess storefront (via the Recess Activities Inc. Flickrstream) Recess opened on Grand Street in September as a storefront artist residency space open to the public. Embracing projects that use the space as both a site for creation as well as display and public interaction (the director describes its mission as propos...ing “a shared time span” between artist and audience), Recess’ inaugural show is Double Room, by Corin Hewitt and Molly McFadden. I was...
Posted:2009-11-19 16:18:54 GMT
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An Xiao  New piece I wrote for hyperallergic on cover art, Vito Acconci, Following Piece 2.0 and the like. Many thanks to @Platea for a fabulous cover performance.

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An Xiao organized a 40th Anniversary tribute to Vito Acconci's "Following Piece" (1969) for @Platea, the social media art collective she performs with. She likes to call what she did a form of "cover art" and she explains why.
November 17 at 9:30am
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... a lull in Iraqi violence helps spur cultural activity ... homeless artists in Austin, Texas, have an art show & benefit ... art mogul Eli Broad is scouting for a museum location ... artist Sam Bassett is arrested for trying to make New York's Sotheby's building into art.
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hyperallergic Daniel Larkin reviews Brent Owens' solo show at English Kills, which took place earlier this season:

http://hyperallergic.com/559/brent-ownes-english-kills/

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Daniel Larkin reflects on Brent Owens's solo show Gnastic Pursuits, which took place earlier this fall at the English Kills Art Gallery in Brooklyn. Describing his work, Larkin ...
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hyperallergic SPONSORED POST: Pernod Absinthe Announces “Creator Of” Art Contest

http://hyperallergic.com/1070/sponsored-post-pernod-absinthe-announces-creator-of-art-contest/

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Many thanks to Pernod Absinthe for supporting the arts and believing in independent and emerging voices in the arts. This week, they are pleased to announce the Pernod Absinthe “Creator Of” Art Contest.
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You can read more about the contest on Pernod Absinthe's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pernodabsinthe
November 12 at 3:11pm
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hyperallergic Some news clips about what's happening in the art world. http://hyperallergic.com/991/news-3/

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... Kiev awaits its own art destination-worthy art center ... Banksy gets marked up before people have a chance to vote and keeping it or not ... the Getty Trust & the Egyptian gov't is working together to preserve King Tut ... ...
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hyperallergic We know you want it (and frankly Tyler Green has been begging for it) so here it is... Lyra Kilston pens the first item in Hyperallergic's newest column: Worst. Press. Release. Ever.

http://hyperallergic.com/949/hanoi-9-1-1/

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Ah, the e-flux email list, ever full of surprises. One day it might elicit a cri de couer of indignation ("really?"), and the next day just a dramatic eye-roll. Sure it's ...