20,000 Followers! woohoo!
20,000 Followers! woohoo!
Hi Hyperallergic fans!
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Does anyone know who started these UC Davis-related pepper spray art pieces?
Getting Your Fix with Art-o-mat
While in Rochester I stopped by the George Eastman House the former home of Kodak film founder George Eastman, and now home to a pretty unique photography museum. The real treasure though, was both unlikely and unexpected. On my I encountered a vintage cigarette machine, cheerily out of time and place. I was delighted to see not tobacco, but art advertised in its tiny little windows…. READ MORE.
10 Underrated Artists From Brooklyn
Editor’s Note: We asked critic Howard Hurst to provide us with 10 Brooklyn artists he considers underrated. Here is his selection.
Ok, so it’s the middle of August. The art world has, as per usual, largely checked out for the month. What this means is that there are tons of smaller projects that get to claim part of the spotlight. While Chelsea may be asleep, I’ve always find that the end of the summer presents itself as a golden nugget of opportunity for lesser known artists and curators to take over unoccupied gallery spaces, and to garner publicity usually hogged by larger commercial galleries. In this spirit, and to help pass the hot summer hours, here is a list of my top 10 under rated Brooklyn artists presented in no particular order…. READ MORE.
Steve Lambert’s latest public art project “Make Capitalism Work for Me!” will try to start conversations about the benefit (or lack thereof) of Capitalism in our lives.
Read more about this project on Hyperallergic and Kickstarter.com.
Hrag was on Al Jazeera today!
My interview on Al Jazeera English today about the release of Ai Weiwei, which we’ve been liveblogging all day.
Posted with permission from Al Jazeera.
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Veken transporting the newest furniture additions — two Aeron chairs — to HQ via subway. Here he is on the 4/5/6 platform in Union Square.
That’s me on our new office blog for Hyperallergic HQ!
When our friends on twitter asked us why not get a taxi to move our latest office furniture? Hrag explained it to them with this tweet:
@hragv: @lunchstudio Honestly, it’s Earth Day! No cars! :) @veken #earthday2011
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Kyle is tracking the story on Hyperallergic…
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