by Alicia | Jun 18, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Salon
CHICAGO — Last December, rumors about a North Korean unicorn lair circulated on the internet. Word got out that an ancient Korean king once rode this mythical beast. But soon it was discovered that this “unicorn” was not an actual unicorn, but rather an English...
by Alicia | Jun 18, 2013 | Hyperallergic
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part series on the intersection of fan art and contemporary art. Read part 1 here. CHICAGO — Falling in love with an image isn’t easy. Images are unattainable, removed, and physically distant, yet they feel so...
by Alicia | Jun 14, 2013 | Hyperallergic
Kymia Nawabi took home first prize on season two of Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, taking home $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. On the final episode of Work of Art, she organized her works in a presentation titled Not for Long, My...
by Alicia | Jun 11, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — The idea of a city-specific annual art magazine available only in a tightly bound assortment of chunky-thick pages, glossy front-and-back covers, and near-cardstock paper is the antithesis of what we at Hyperallergic present to you, dear reader. In a world...
by Alicia | Jun 5, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — When isn’t art good for breakfast? Oslo-based artist Ida Skivenes makes all types of food art out using a piece of toast on a kitchen plate as her canvas. The other week, she found herself stuck in front of a computer rather than freestyling in the kitchen,...
by Alicia | Jun 5, 2013 | Hyperallergic
The stories we experience online, the people we meet, and the information we discover, offer us new ways to fall in love with the image, the autograph, and even the art object. But what of purchasing art that really only does exist on the internet or in a digital...