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# Hot Links, Upside-Down Christmas Tree Edition
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/hot-links-christmas-tree-edition/
- Published: 2010-12-23T18:59:24.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:37:45.000Z
- Description: Christmas blues got you down? Have I got the solution for you! Check out a hot fresh batch of links for the lead-up to Christmas and all that other stuff, sure to delight, entertain, educate and amaze. I guarantee there is no Wojnarowicz or Blu content to be found. Above, I've switched out Natalie J
- Author: Kyle Chayka
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Carolina Miranda, Choire Sicha, Dushko Petrovich, The New York Times, Tyler Green, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Christmas blues got you down? Still not home for the holidays? A little [SAD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal%5Faffective%5Fdisorder?ref=hyperallergic.com)? Well, have I got the solution for you. Check out a hot fresh batch of links for the lead-up to Christmas and all that other stuff, sure to delight, entertain, educate and amaze. Plus, I guarantee that there is no Wojnarowicz or Blu content to be found in this post. Above, in light of the time of year, I’ve switched out Natalie Jeremijenko’s upside-down trees at [Mass MoCA](http://www.massmoca.org/event%5Fdetails.php?id=29&ref=hyperallergic.com) for Christmas evergreens. How festive!

- Over at the **New York Times**, a crew of art critics give you their picks for [art books of the year](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/books/26artbooks.html?pagewanted=2&ref=hyperallergic.com). Need a last minute present? This one might be a lifesaver.
- At Artinfo, **Ann Landi** checks out Cheryl Brutvan and Charles Stainback’s attempt to track Miami Basel 2010’s art trends [in an exhibition](http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36651/exhibitionists-at-the-art-fair/?page=1&ref=hyperallergic.com).
- Courtesy of [Tyler Green](http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/?ref=hyperallergic.com), **LACMA** has an [informative post](http://lacma.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/the-stockings-were-hung-in-the-exhibition-with-care/?ref=hyperallergic.com) on racy holidays stockings through time. You never know what’s hiding underneath a petticoat.
- At the Awl, **Choire Sicha** rants about [Hockney’s iPad paintings](http://www.theawl.com/2010/12/david-hockneys-garbage?ref=hyperallergic.com) and their attendant Paris exhibition, but admits that he finds the artist pretty awesome anyway.
- Best holiday gift: Chicago comic artist **Lucy Knisley** explains entire Harry Potter books in [single posters](http://lucylou.livejournal.com/589752.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), leading to hilariously simplified versions of the stories.
- Here are some modernist takes on [gingerbread houses](http://www.trendhunter.com/photos/61245/7?ref=hyperallergic.com#!/photos/61245/1) from **Trendhunter**. Someone must be working on Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut, right?
- The **New York Times** has a look at new electronics designed to look like [retro throwbacks](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/technology/personaltech/23basics.html?ref=technology). This is kind of steampunk, but I guess that whole thing has lost its shock value. Brass-covered, gear driven iPads anyone?
- In Beijing, strolling couples often wear matching t-shirts that come in pairs. **Neocha Edge** has a [well-designed update](http://edge.neocha.com/neochaedge-client-work/competition-announcing-the-winners-of-the-hongmen-art-x-neochaedge-rmb-10000-top-prize-%E2%80%9Ccouple%E2%80%99s-set%E2%80%9D-design-challenge/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that actually doesn’t look stupid.
- The **New York Observer** profiles 20-whatever year old Vito Schnabel, spawn of painter Julian and a young art world impresario douchebag [snotty rich kid](http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/prince-palazzo-chupi?ref=hyperallergic.com).
- **Tyler Green**‘s awesome animated [art Advent calendar](http://2010adventcalendar.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is ticking down to Christmas! Check out the collection of old masters and modernists that have already been revealed.
- Over at Paper Monument, **Dushko Petrovich** has a [pithy-as-fuck collection](http://www.papermonument.com/web-only/pumpkin-moca/?ref=hyperallergic.com) of recent exhibition reviews from his recent journey to Mass MoCA. Nothing on the trees, though.
- **Nick Paumgarten** cynically trashes is enormously ambivalent about Nintendo’s creative mastermind and artist of the century Shigeru Miyamoto in this [New Yorker profile](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/101220fa%5Ffact%5Fpaumgarten?ref=hyperallergic.com). He fails to represent the auteur’s significance and originality. Dude, grow a soul!
- In other video game news, interactive auteurs **That Game Company** have a new game in development, called Journey. The [trailer is beautiful](http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/12/10/thatgamecompany-shares-journeys-first-trailer/?ref=hyperallergic.com).
- **Carolina Miranda** has this excellent report of [shows to catch over the holidays](http://culture.wnyc.org/blogs/gallerina/2010/dec/23/week-must-see-arts-city/?ref=hyperallergic.com) at WNYC. Seems like everyone likes the Baldessari show at the Met, might have to see that one.
- And finally, here’s the [Snoopy dancing sequence](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQX2B67KL4&ref=hyperallergic.com) from the **Peanuts Christmas Special**. Now THAT’S contemporary art. Happy Holidays!

*I totally stole this title format from* [*C-Monster*](http://c-monster.net/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *and* [*Art Fag City*](http://www.artfagcity.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*