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Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ: An Interview With Co-Curator Hrag Vartanian

by Paddy Johnson on June 16, 2011
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Tomorrow marks the dawn of a new era in mail art: Presents, Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ an opening that promises booze AND epic results! At least those are my predictions. As many readers will have already caught wind of around the web, Hyperallergic has been collecting mail art for three months. Come tomorrow, the days of tantalizing their readers with posts of their mail art gifts online will close: The mail art show opens!

Selected from over 100 submissions, the show includes artists such as Bo Bartlett, J.D. HastingsTim McCoolAustin Thomas, Audra Wolowiec, and many more (a full list of the participating artists can be found at the bottom of this post).  Storefront’s Kate Wadkins and Hyperallergic‘s founding editor Hrag Vartanian are responsible for the curation of the show. Yesterday, I drilled Vartanian on the connections of this show with the blog Post Secret. That didn’t go very well, but I got an interview out of it regardless.

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Back to Camp with Pocket Utopia

by Liza Eliano on July 14, 2010
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Camp always sounded like my idea of personal hell, but maybe art camp is a different story. For the last two weeks of July, Norte Maar presents Camp Pocket U, a social school and arts camp in Rouses Point, NY based on the Black Mountain College model that placed art at the center of education.

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