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Lady Gaga Doing the Marina Abramović Method Is Satire, Right?
Lady Gaga has long been desperate for art world attention. Now, she's collaborating with the artists who has long been desperate for pop culture cred, Marina Abramović.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Amazing Cache of Vintage Films: East Village 1980s, NYC Subway 1960s/40s, David Hockney 1960s
Thanks to the bloggers at Bowery Boogie, I've discovered an incredible cache of rare video clips from the 20th century, including this footage of the rough and tumble streets of the East Village during the late 1980s and the city's subways system in the 1960s.
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Required Reading
This week, art forgeries, Frere-Jones on Jay Z's crappy album, food criticism drama, sound art resonates, the woman who was raped by Roman Polanski speaks, Boston's only graffiti park, Freudian analysis of sexting, 3D printing renaissance, and more.
Art
Images from the Final Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival
The fourth and final week of Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) included many lectures as performance, the idea of networked performance, and what exactly would a marketplace for performance art mean?
Art
A Shadowy Plane in the Cave
Serkan Özkaya's "Mirage" (2013) was an ominous presence at the beta launch of the new Postmasters Gallery space in Tribeca.
Opinion
James Franco Is Real Sad About Jeffrey Deitch and Mad at LA
James Franco is having a tough time right now. His Indiegogo fundraiser for Palo Alto Stories doesn't look like it will reach its goal, but the actor/artist/fundraiser/heart throb is also upset that former Museum of Contemporary Art director Jeffrey Deitch is leaving the institution and perhaps LA.
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Video Interlude: Polishing a Giacometti Sculpture
I found it rather soothing to watching two employees at the Museum of Modern Art polish the large Alberto Giacometti sculpture, "Tall Figure, III" (1960), in the museum courtyard.
Opinion
Guerrilla Artist Warns Detroiters to Brace Themselves
Jerry Vile's guerrilla addition to Detroit's "Monument to Joe Louis" (aka The Fist) is his tongue-in-cheek way of preparing the citizens of his beloved city to brace themselves …
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One of the Art World's Most Interesting Couples
This New York love story chronicles the chaotic 40-year marriage of boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and artist Noriko Shinohara.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, "smart dumb" is a thing, High Line shenanigans, Martin Scorsese talks cinema aesthetics, the charitable-industrial complex, every movie reference in The Simpsons, and more.
Opinion
The Most and Least Popular Emoji on Twitter
Ever wonder which emoji are most popular with users? Now Emojitracker is tracking Twitter users to find out which symbols are being used the most right now.
Opinion
Stephen Colbert Chimes in About Detroit Museum Sell-Off Fears
The Colbert Report tackles the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the irony that Detroit could possibly sell off Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry" mural, which depicts a socialist worker's utopia.