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Banksy Vandalism Drama Alert!
Street artist Banksy has obviously gone to a whole new level when he is the subject of TMZ EXCLUSIVE!!!!! reports.
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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
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A Google Earth Perspective on Land Art
Earlier today @museumnerd tweeted out a link to a view of Michael Heizer's land work "Double Negative" (1969) in Google Maps. Viewed in satellite, from high above, Heizer's 1,500-foot-long trenches looks almost incidental, like cuts made with scissors into the skin of the earth.
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Renegade Election Signs Spoof Toronto's Crack Mayor
Today, Torontonians awoke to a series of fake election signs poking fun at the city's crack-prone mayor and the sad reality of an elected official who has become a laughing stock around the world.
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How Did Famous Creative People Spend Their Days?
The question of how our creative forebears organized their time makes for fascinating fodder. This is the subject of Mason Currey's 2013 book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, which RJ Andrews, of Info We Trust, has now mined to create data visualizations of the daily routines of a number of historic
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Required Reading
This week, fonts can save money, trend piece bs, best press photos, Wu Tang Clan's art experiment, booksellers leaving Manhattan, and more.
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Weekend Words: Nose
As Jillian Steinhauer reported in Hyperallergic on Monday, "The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.”
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Emojis May Be Going Multiculti, but What About Art?
Here at Hyperallergic, we've discussed — and griped about — the limited menu of emoji on smartphones but now there's word that Apple may expand the usual emoji suspects with more racial diversity to reflect a more inclusive reality. But can I suggest a few others?
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An Artist's Narco-Namaste Yoga Mat
Nothing says yoga quite like a mat that looks like a $100 bill with a razor blade, broken mirror, and lines of cocaine on it.
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Every Advertising Cliché in One Video
Oh, generic, you are so meh … but what diversity of skin colors!
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United States Americans for the Arts: Alec Baldwin, Maureen Dowd Stand With You
On a stage in Washington last night, Alec Baldwin briefly un-retired from public life to introduce Maureen Dowd, who proceeded to deliver a lecture on "the arts" in "America." This grim scenario wasn't culled from an SNL bin; it was a real-live keynote commissioned by Americans for the Arts, the cro
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The Simpsons Discover the Art World
If real-life Jane Does and Joe Schmoes have been known to discover valuable paintings at flea markets, why not Marge and Homer Simpson?