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This week, the Bechdel test's impact on movie revenue, the 17-year-old who slept with Ginsburg and Burroughs, Sotheby's redesign, internet as propaganda tool, LACMA and Tinder, and more.
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Weekend Words: Limit
What does the art market have in common with Major League Baseball and the Supreme Court? Spending limits are for suckers.
Art
Joanne Greenbaum’s Beautiful Monsters
Joanne Greenbaum is hellbent on making each painting different from the ones preceding it. This was immediately evident when I walked into her first exhibition with Rachel Uffner Gallery, where she is inaugurating the gallery’s new large space with eight large paintings, all 90 x 80 inches.
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Broadcast Muse: Liz Magic Laser's Bystander
The script for "Bystander," Liz Magic Laser’s performance at The Kitchen, consists principally of two types of statements about current events — the personal and the reportorial.
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Like It Is: William Powhida at Postmasters
William Powhida has been tracking the feeding habits of the oligarchy for years, which makes it seem almost prophetic that the Supreme Court struck down overall spending limits on Federal elections during the run of Overculture, his second solo show at Postmasters Gallery.
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Probing the Unknowable: Judith Bernstein’s Black Light Paintings
Sometimes ferocity fades over time. Sometimes it doesn’t. For Judith Bernstein, it just gets bigger, brighter and wilder. Now in her seventies, Bernstein has been dishing out the unpalatable for more than forty years with no sign of letting up.
Art
The Naked, Aging Body in Performance
The piece began with two naked artists covered in photographs of the female body, behind which hid coils of fishing line pierced into the skin. This was “Balancing on the Edge/Age,” a work addressing societal views of menopause and old age by Mexican artist Rocio Boliver, also known as La Congeleda
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The Sunday Funnies at the Armory Show
Americans participating in the 1913 Armory Show were engaging with Modernism in all sorts of subtle and interesting ways. Among these were a handful of artists whose main corpus of work wouldn’t be recognized as “art” until many years later: newspaper comic strips.
Art
Ai Weiwei Stars in Short Sci-Fi Film
Who could forget Ai Weiwei's foray into music last spring? Now he's branching out creatively once more, this time with his first acting role.
News
Announcing Hyperallergic's Paid Internship Program
From day one, it was important to us at Hyperallergic that everyone be paid for their work, creative and otherwise.
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Art Movements
Stolen paintings reappear in Italian kitchen, Qatar gives heritage support to Sudan, Helsinki Guggenheim looking for an architect, street artist found shot in Detroit, and more from the week in art news.
Poetry
3 Poems, Each Entitled “Rue Daguerre” by Sommer Browning
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Sommer Browning for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.