The commodification of Indigenous culture is a global phenomenon. Souvenir shops throughout southeast Alaska sell imitations of Northwest Coast Native masks made in Indonesia. Nicholas Galanin…
One Hyperallergic writer’s experience following Luke Willis Thompson out of the New Museum as part of his twice-daily performance piece Eventually they introduced me to the people I immediately re…
Yesterday was the preview of the inaugural Frieze New York, the first American iteration of a hip London fair that's been in place for a decade. Amid art stars from Chuck Close to Tracey Emin and Ja…
In Oscar Tuazon’s 21st-century iteration of process art, objects and spaces fail—or at least threaten to. Buildings are cut into and stretched to their limits. Walls bulge, glass breaks and water drip…
It's been a strangely positive week in America, I can definitely report. I called my mother, who lives in a senior center in Holyoke, MA, where there was a huge storm. She was delighted I got throug…
"Come into the dark, we can't see anything and we have never been to Antarctica," invites Vito Acconci in his "Antarctica of the Mind," (2004) a building proposal for the Halley II Research Station in…
Oscar Tuazon inaugurated Daniele Balice and Alexander Hertling’s new gallery in scrappy Belleville, arguably the hottest art district in town, with a solo show provocatively titled “Ass to Mouth.” The…