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Picasso would have turned 129 today, if the polymath artist, sculptor and co-inventor of cubism hadn't died in 1973 at the age of 92. Born in 1881, the artist rapidly commenced almost a full century of being awesome. So today we will put this Jonathan Richman song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZW
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If you happened to be hiding under a social media rock for the past few days, you might have missed the Guggenheim museum's short-lived multimedia/indie band/internets extravaganza that was their Youtube-sponsored “Play” biennial. The biennial was in reality a juried exhibition that anyone could sub
Art
Inspired by the closing of Ai Weiwei's “Sunflower Seeds” installation due to health hazards, I've been writing about how environmental impact is factored in to the evaluation of installation art. Does a work of art have to have a low carbon footprint to be great, or should we completely separate a p
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Every week, we'll recap the best comments we've received on Hyperallergic's posts, whether that's on the blogazine itself, on Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook. Be sure to check in every Friday for new comments. This week, check out responses to our Powerless 20, additions to our list of dangerous works
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Despite his image of a crotchety old traditionalist, David Hockney hasn't been one to shy away from new technology. The artist, best known for his 60s portraits painted of California intelligentsia, has been making drawings and paintings on an iPhone since 2009, and recently scaled up to an iPad, us
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When we talk about art, we rarely talk about its environmental impact. What's the carbon footprint of manufacturing a fiberglass Jeff Koons versus the making of an Andy Goldsworthy? As opposed to, say, water bottles, the cost of making a work of art rarely factors into how the work is analyzed and a
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Out across the pond, there's an art fair going on. Only slightly overshadowed by the Ai Weiwei Turbine Hall installation debacle, London's Frieze Art Fair has been soldiering on nonetheless to bring collectors to the art, and vice versa. We've combed over the internet to bring you some impressions o
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You might remember Poster Boy from his days wreaking havoc on the New York City (Brooklyn) subways, slicing up vinyl-adhesive posters with a pocketed razor and remixing them at will. The prankster switched up celebrity bodies, rearranged words, got big in the blogosphere, profiled in New York Magazi
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After Ai Weiwei's Tate exhibition was effectively quarantined for its impact on visitors’ health and well-being, we thought we’d investigate the art world for a few other pieces and exhibitions that ended up being a little more than curators and artists bargained for. From the Tate Modern’s numerous
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Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds at the Tate's Turbine Hall space in London opened to a good deal of rejoicing. Viewers and critics alike were entranced by the installation, a field of 100 million sunflower seeds that were actually carved from porcelain. An abundance of press photos show exhibition-goers
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Pitchfork, the inveterate hipster music site, recently announced plans for a music festival in New York City named #offline. Social media is great and all, but the sudden popularity of names that begin with the Twitter hashtag-indicating # are starting to be mildly annoying, however niche it is. Jus
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In case you haven’t heard from the star’s overactive Twitter account, Kanye’s latest album is called My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and the just-released album cover art pretty much matches the title. Following Kanye’s GOOD Friday single series which also featured the artist, the album cover is p