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Astrological Aesthetics: October 2017 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms.
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Performance
Performance Matriarch Vaginal Davis Upends Fixed Notions of Genre and Gender
The punk icon kicked off the New Museum’s performance series last Thursday in conjunction with the just-opened show Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.
Art
Newspaper Refuses To Give An Artist Credit For Her Work
In a write-up, a paper failed to mention Christine Baeumler's name, then doubled down, insisting that it was an omission, not an error. It's part of a larger pattern of writing women out of their own work.
Art
Art Lands on LA's Balconies, Porches, and Yards at the Terrain Biennial
The Terrain Biennial repurposes liminal domestic spaces such as porches, windows, and yards into public art sites.
Art
Magic Mushrooms in an Unmagical Show
Magic mushrooms can create a headspace where erudition and imagination become artistic affiliates, but in this show, the trickster disorientation of collage is the closest we get to that experience.
Art
Japanese Playgrounds at Night
Photographer Kito Fujio has spent the last three years traveling his country to capture its playful, surreal, and organic playground equipment.
Art
Photograms that Capture Darkness and the Flicker of Fireflies
Michael Flomen's first photographs were made with the light of fireflies, inspiring a series of work that converses with rain water, earth, and plant life.
Film
Mother! Is a Wild Ride, But Is It Also Strangely Feminist?
The film has elicited intense reactions with its super-saturated horror, but it also has a campy streak with feminist implications.
In Brief
X-Rays of Degas Sculptures Illuminate His Unconventional Process
Conservation scientists at the Fitzwilliam Museum shed some light on the everyday objects forming the armatures of three surviving beeswax sculptures.
Art
Step Inside a Lunar Eclipse
In Lunar Eclipse, an immersive installation and musical performance, a stylized rendering of the titular celestial phenomenon will be projected onto an inflatable dome.
Art
A Festival Fosters Exchange Between Artists from LA and Mexico City
This year the Los Angeles Exchange Festival is starting a tradition of artistic exchange with other cities, beginning with Mexico City.
History
The First Printed Illustration of a Modern Dissection
Published in the late 15th century, the Fasciculus Medicinae contains the earliest depiction of a modern dissection, a groundbreaking representation for anatomy.