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Lady Gaga Doing the Marina Abramović Method Is Satire, Right?

Lady Gaga has long been desperate for art world attention. Now, she's collaborating with the artists who has long been desperate for pop culture cred, Marina Abramović.

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Amazing Cache of Vintage Films: East Village 1980s, NYC Subway 1960s/40s, David Hockney 1960s

Thanks to the bloggers at Bowery Boogie, I've discovered an incredible cache of rare video clips from the 20th century, including this footage of the rough and tumble streets of the East Village during the late 1980s and the city's subways system in the 1960s.

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LACMA Restaurant Hires Water Sommelier, Launches 45-Page Water Menu [UPDATE]

"Water is essential to life," notes the opening sentence of the "Tasting Water" menu at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's in-house Ray's and Stark's Bar restaurant, which has just launched the 45-page menu and hired Martin Riese, a "water sommelier." It's the sort of believability-tickling ploy

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Bad Art Definitely Bad, Science Confirms

A study in the latest edition of the British Journal of Aesthetics portends to determine whether aesthetics are assessed through exposure, as held in a widely cited prior work of research, or if there's a discernibly innate common component to human judgments of visual value.

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Taking Stock of Amazon Art

In May, we broke the story that Amazon was planning to add art to their online offerings, and yesterday the deed was done: the company's Fine Art store (beta) was born.

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Sometimes a GIF Is All You Need

Today and yesterday were glorious days in New York: August had come, the sun was shining, the weather was just right. They were the type of days that make you want to frolic, or skip or swing. And so it happened, when I clicked on a link in a tweet by pioneering net artist and critic Olia Lialina, t

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The Kitsch of Death, or Andy Warhol's Birthday Livestream

Eighty-five years ago today, Andrej Varhola, Jr., was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He would go on to become the famous Andy Warhol, whose artwork decorates the walls of museums and, most recently, Perrier bottles. In honor of that birthday, the Andy Warhol Museum has set up a live webcam feed o

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Required Reading

This week, art forgeries, Frere-Jones on Jay Z's crappy album, food criticism drama, sound art resonates, the woman who was raped by Roman Polanski speaks, Boston's only graffiti park, Freudian analysis of sexting, 3D printing renaissance, and more.

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Weekend Words: Enemy

This week Bradley Manning was acquitted of charges of aiding the enemy. But in the immortal words of the prophet Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

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See the NYC Subway in 1905

A silent, black-and-white video released by the Library of Congress captures a snippet of the first NYC subway line in 1905, trailing a train from 14th Street to Grand Central just a year after the subway opened.

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James Franco Is Real Sad About Jeffrey Deitch and Mad at LA

James Franco is having a tough time right now. His Indiegogo fundraiser for Palo Alto Stories doesn't look like it will reach its goal, but the actor/artist/fundraiser/heart throb is also upset that former Museum of Contemporary Art director Jeffrey Deitch is leaving the institution and perhaps LA.

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Stodgy Brit Has Something to Say About Banksy, Capitalism, "Ghetto Youth"

To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, the tree of blogging must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of morose critics. And although here at Hyperallergic we believe that it's better to dwell on the redeeming features of the written word, we do appreciate a good hate-read now and then.