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"Wow. George Bush Is a Painter"
"Wow. George Bush is a painter," former president George W. Bush told NBC Today interviewers regarding the reception he imagines his paintings of world leaders will receive upon their public release tomorrow.
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Photographing Ancient Organisms Before They Disappear
Brooklyn-based photographer Rachel Sussman spent nearly a decade tracking down the elders of our world, where life is measured in centuries instead of years.
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Ontario Reins In Unpaid Magazine Internships
The Ontario provincial government has begun cracking down on unpaid internships at magazines, shutting down programs at The Walrus, Toronto Life, Fashion Magazine, and Quill & Quire, the Toronto Star reported.
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Vatican to Digitize 41 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts
What happens when a wide swath of history — previously only explored by white-gloved librarians and erudite historians — is made available to anyone with a solid internet connection? Thanks to the Pope, we’ll soon find out.
Art
New Video Series Humorously Probes Art's Corruption
An Australian street artist seems an unlikely figure to reprise Robert Hughes's market-averse brand of video art criticism.
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A View from the Easel
Studios in Aspen, Austin, Milwaukee, Toronto, and Roanoke, VA.
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Kay Parker, Taboo, and the Golden Age of Porn #NSFW
Given the vantage point of the digital era, the 1970s to the mid-1980s can now be reckoned the porn era’s golden age, such as it is. Those were years when feature-length pornographic films were shown at movie houses all over America.
Art
Real Live Painting in Britain
BEXHILL-ON-SEA, England — Liveness is a difficult quality to prescribe in a work of art. But to borrow a phrase from an obscenity trial, you will know it when you see it. This is especially true when the medium is painting. It is alive, yes, but it is not always so vital as in the current show, I Ch
Opinion
Banksy Vandalism Drama Alert!
Street artist Banksy has obviously gone to a whole new level when he is the subject of TMZ EXCLUSIVE!!!!! reports.
Art
Put Texas Quail Rigs in the Whitney Biennial
There are no Texas quail rigs in the Whitney Biennial, but then again New York casts a long shadow of bullshit over American aesthetics, its credentialed scenesters busy strip-mining consumer culture to produce elaborate corporate pranks.
Art
The Curious Thing about #Hashtags
The new web series #Hashtag follows the lives of young queer women in Chicago whose dating patterns and attractions are significantly affected by the technologies that they use and, at times, abuse.
Opinion
Man in Bear, Birds in Coffee Shop
As Hyperallergic's self-appointed cat correspondent, I feel an occasional duty to branch out and offer you more from the always colorful intersection of art and animals. Turns out it's a good week for that. Today: a man living inside a bear carcass and a coffee shop for birds — both of which are bei