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The Sesame Street of Art History

Avatar photo by Isabella Segalovich November 9, 2022November 9, 2022

Artist Jayson Musson guides a potty-mouthed, weed-obsessed bunny named Ollie through his version of art history.

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A Death Labyrinth, a Steampunk Space Club, and More in the New Museum’s First VR Exhibition

by Claire Voon February 28, 2017August 3, 2021

From a watery remix of Call of Duty to an elegiac star system commemorating victims of police brutality, the online-only exhibition’s six VR works showcase a range of possible worlds.

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When Great Art Makes You LOL

by Alicia Eler and Alex Huntsberger February 20, 2017January 11, 2021

Is funny art actually funny? The answer, as we see it, is a rousing chorus of “it depends.”

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A Multimedia Jungle of Moving Images

by Michael Blum January 31, 2017February 1, 2017

The Whitney Museum’s Dreamlands gathers a century of immersive moving image art, cutting across time and technology.

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From Black Performance to Stuff on a Shelf, a Visit to Five Shows in San Francisco

by Gabriela Vainsencher August 11, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s summer in the USA, and that means it’s group-show season on both coasts.

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Your Art Entertainment Experience Is Here!

by Alicia Eler March 16, 2015March 17, 2015

MONTRÉAL — In the 24/7 news cycle of BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, and every other “content producer” on the internet, there is a fine line between news and entertainment.

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When the Weather Gives You Snowmageddon, Make Art Snowmen

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 26, 2015January 29, 2015

As we hunker down in anticipation of what will almost certainly be a less dramatic snowstorm than some are predicting, and begin to formulate plans for the construction of snowpersons that will immediately follow, we offer you this brief and necessarily incomplete survey of artists’ snowmen for inspiration.

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Time Traveling with Jayson Musson and Dave Chappelle

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 13, 2015August 3, 2021

“Maybe all you needed was a little hip-hop pizzazz,” says Jamel (James III) in the first episode of artist Jayson Musson’s new time travel comedy series, The Adventures of Jamel.

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Better Than Performance Art

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 29, 2014

On Wednesday, artist Jayson Musson tweeted “lol this performance art scene in She’s All That is better than real performance art,” and his 84 characters opened the flood gates of memory for me.

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Jayson Musson’s Joke Without a Punchline

Avatar photo by Tiernan Morgan May 15, 2014April 18, 2016

Jayson Musson’s latest exhibition, Exhibit of Abstract Art, lacks the sharp insight for which the artist is renowned. On view at Salon 94, the show skewers the lofty pretensions of modernism and the art world, but its broad critique lacks punch.

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Art After the Internet

Avatar photo by Abe Ahn March 10, 2014March 13, 2014

LOS ANGELES — Much of contemporary life is spent behind a screen for work and leisure, with a great amount of time devoted to forming identities and communities through the internet.

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The Radical Boundaries of African-American Performance

by Debra Lennard November 25, 2013November 28, 2013

“Be African-American. Be very African American.” Thus reads a typed instruction on an otherwise blank piece of paper sent by veteran performance artist William Pope.L to Clifford Owens as part of Anthology, the latter’s crowd-sourced performance project staged last year at MoMA PS1.

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