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Ponder Your Multiple Personalities, Get More Creative
A recent study suggests that reflecting on the fluidity of identity can enhance creativity.
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As Multiculti Emojis Debut, Bleach Company Stains Its Reputation with Off-Color Joke
On the day that the world could finally send diverse-looking emoji, US-based bleach company Clorox made a very bad joke.
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Should There be a Statute of Limitations on Nazi-Looted Art?
Should countries set a deadline for restitution claims brought by descendants of Holocaust victims whose art was looted by the Nazis?
Art
Navigating Brooklyn from the 17th to the 21st Centuries
Brooklyn has long touted its status as the unofficial fourth largest city in the United States, if not for the so-called "great mistake of 1898" — the consolidation of New York City.
Art
Commissioning a Portrait of the Digital Crowd
"The history of art commissions is the history of wealthy people paying artists to make something about wealthy people," Electric Objects co-founder Jake Levine says.
Art
You Can Kickstart an Urban Human Compost Center
At death in the United States we are faced with two options: burial or cremation.
Art
The Nutty Squirrel That Dressed in Drag
"You can't be friends with a squirrel — a squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit," Sarah Jessica Parker once quipped. Obviously she had never encountered Tommy Tucker.
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An Architectural Competition to Reimagine the World's Most Remote Human Settlement
Despite an active volcano, intense winds, and a location 10 days by boat from its nearest neighbor, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas — the most remote human settlement in the world — has endured for nearly two centuries.
Art
Leon Golub's Never-ending Fight Against the War Machine
LONDON — The conversation of war has dwindled.
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Hyperallergic and Walker Art Center Partner for Superscript Blog Mentorship Program
To put ideas discussed at the Superscript arts journalism and criticism conference into practice, Hyperallergic is partnering with the Walker Art Center to announce the Superscript Blog Mentorship.
Art
The Radical Art of Archiving Performance, as Practiced by Martha Wilson
The day after I went to go see the Martha Wilson: Downtown and Performing Franklin Furnace exhibitions in New York City, a friend brought me to a lecture-performance by Carolee Schneemann at a raw gallery space in Tribeca run by Hunter College.
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A Video Game Lets You Navigate Giorgio de Chirico's Surreal Cityscapes
With their long shadows and lonely colonnades, Giorgio de Chirico’s paintings possess a strange allure. I've always wondered what it would be like to wander through them.