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Hip-Hop Meets Art History
Cecilia Azcarate's art history tumblelog B4XVI pairs pictures of rappers with historical sculptures, paintings, and statues from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
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Sculpture of Homeless Jesus Sparks Controversy
When it comes to religious art, depictions of Jesus tend to feature him as saintly, reverential, floating above mere mortals or healing them with his touch (or he's a baby). But a sculpture by artist Timothy P. Schmalz shows Jesus as a homeless man wrapped in a blanket, asleep on a bench.
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Franco's Playhouse
LOS ANGELES — For all of James Franco’s talk about being James Franco, it’s pretty lame that he’s now trying to glean a bit of Cindy Sherman’s fame by recreating her photographs in drag.
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Required Reading
This week, how to protect your passwords online, ignorance is bliss, the Jesus Wife Papyrus is not fake, 8 million flower petals in Costa Rica, Minimalism redux, million-dollar painting trashed, Bush paintings' lazy sourcing, Koons on inflatables, and more.
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Weekend Words: Hundred
On Thursday, New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, passed his hundredth day in office, telling an audience in the Great Hall of Cooper Union, “Grass-roots politics, neighborhood politics, tells us that the people are almost always ahead of their leaders.”
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Kids Pay Homage to Jim Dine
Before the frustration and jadedness come, before galleries and museums and auction houses, before art history exams and conceptual art and identity politics, there is the simple joy of making art.
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Comic Sans Gets a Makeover, and You Can Download It Free
Well, lovers of Comic Sans rejoice!
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Required Reading
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.
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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.