Opinion
Advice from Jenny Holzer for the NFL and Ray Rice
What happens when you combine Ray Rice, football, a meme, and Jenny Holzer?
Hrag Vartanian
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Required Reading
This week, a Rothko sells for ~$150 million, NASA's moon photos, identity of Jack the Ripper uncovered, violence of architecture, art institutions and imperialism, screenshots as POV, and more.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week, we have a handy map for your LA art adventures, Orange County trots out the avant-garde, Made in LA is closing, ACME celebrates 20 years, Doug Aitken has a new show, and lots more.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, New York is back in swing and for the next few weeks you will be inundated with more art events than you can imagine.
Opinion
Life Imitating Art: Grant Wood's Ice Bucket Challenge
Not sure if this ever raised money for charity.
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Required Reading
This week, war photography and pop culture, breaking up the major museums, Hello Kitty is not a cat, video game sexism, criminalizing science, and more.
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And this concludes … Videodrome
Thanks for watching our daylong stream of videos from across the internet.
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Irma Vep as a Space Between the Artist and Her Creation
Artist Michelle Handelman has taken the epic 7-hour film Les Vampires about a bizarre underground criminal gang and transformed into "Irma Vep, The Last Breath," a video project that is about "living in the shadows, criminal anxiety and the relationship between the artist and her creation, both fict
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The Love Songs of Saddam Hussein
Commissioned by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the songs in Adel Abidin's "Three Love Songs" (2010) are transformed into sinister pop music videos that use attractive blonde women as conduits for the fallen dictator's propaganda.
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William Wegman and Robert Breer's New Wave
In the 1980s, the dream of going pop — as in pop culture rather than Pop art — in the art wold was raging strong, and many people thought it practically imminent.
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Better Than Performance Art
On Wednesday, artist Jayson Musson tweeted "lol this performance art scene in She's All That is better than real performance art," and his 84 characters opened the flood gates of memory for me.
Opinion
Welcome to Videodrome
Every year, Hyperallergic pays tribute to David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), the classic sci-fi thriller, with a 12-hour journey through videos we discover littering the internet.