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The Inner Life of a Museum
Bobby Sommer in Jem Cohen’s “Museum Hours,” film still (all photos except book cover via museumhoursfilm.com) Jem Cohen’s new feature film, Museum Hours, unfolds like a series of postcards from a...
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Without Beginning or End: Yves Klein’s Monotone-Silence Symphony
Yves Klein’s other monotone: International Klein Blue Last Wednesday, the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church was filled with an unlikely congregation of strangers: from art insiders to the media-savvy...
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All the Art That’s Fit to Print
Edward Ruscha, “News, from the Portfolio News, Pews, Brews, Stews and Dues” (1970), silkscreen, edition of 125, 27 x 35 in” (Courtesy of Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College) (image via...
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Seeing Calder Through His Shadows
Alexander Calder’s “Morning Cobweb” [intermediate maquette] (1967) with its shadow (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)When I was little I went to the Whitney Museum over and over to see...
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Collaging Art History in the Kitchen
Installation view, ‘Jed Devine’ at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, featuring “Untitled (Bread-eye)” (2013), archival pigment ink print, 34″ x 24″ (all images courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery) Artists have a long...
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Searching for Jay DeFeo (Again)
Installation view, ‘Jay DeFeo’ at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY, 2014, with “White Shadow” (1972) second from left (all imges courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY) (all images © 2014 The Jay DeFeo...
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The Yams Collective’s Collage of Black Experience
The entrance to Freecandy for the HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? event (all photos and screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) There was no mention of the Whitney Museum or the Biennial, of Joe Scanlan,...
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Polly Apfelbaum Plays with Pattern
Installation view, ‘Polly Apfelbaum: A Handweaver’s Pattern Book,’ Clifton Benevento, New York, 2014 (all photos by Andres Ramirez, courtesy the artist and Clifton Benevento, New York) Among the sleek...
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Saul Steinberg Decodes the Symbols of Society
Installation view, ‘Saul Steinberg: 100th Anniversary Exhibition’ at Pace Gallery (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Plastered on the title wall of Saul Steinberg’s 100th Anniversary...
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Alternative Media: Software and Video in 1970s Counterculture
Installation view, “Send Blank Tape” at Pioneer Works (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) In the midst of laments that the shared culture of television is dwindling – that charming picture of...
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For the Harvard Art Museums, a Top-to-Bottom Renovation and Rethinking
The exterior of the new Harvard Art Museums on opening date (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On a warm day in June six years ago, the front doors of the Fogg Museum...
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Art-Minded Feminists Become Wikipedians for a Weekend
The Art+Feminism 2015 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Babycastles (all photos by the author unless otherwise noted) When Shulamith Firestone wrote in 1970, “Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will...
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At a Queer Film Festival, a Collective Offers to Digitize Your Videos for Free
XFR Collective’s installation at MIX NYC’s 28th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “Coming here is such a weird thing for an archival organization to...
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