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Weekend Words: Meat
If we can now grow a hamburger in a test tube, as the New York Times reported on Tuesday, we will still be able to get to the meat of the matter?
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In Search of Unexpected Design Treasures
I think I've admitted this before on Hyperallergic, but I love auctions, they are a guilty pleasure. Not the big ticket auctions that grab all the headlines but the ones where it is still possible to find real treasures.
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Mountains and Oceans of Trash
SAN FRANCISCO — Pollution and health have been on the Chinese mind as of late. From dead pigs in Shanghai to tips for avoiding bad air in Beijing, a clean environment can be difficult to find. Smog and water pollution have become a feature of China's urban landscape, creating a hazard not just for C
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Bursting With Power: The 18th C Power Paunch
I recently discovered this prime cache of vintage paunch porn, thanks to two of my fave tweeples who shared this stash of 18th century "power paunches" as compiled by romance and "crimance" novelist Lucinda Brant, whose stories are set in that period.
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Creative Success vs. Personal Relationships — Who Wins?
SAN FRANCISCO — Many artists I know are incredibly ambitious. They want to be the best, the most effective artist they can be. And if they move to a large city with a supportive gallery and museum system, they can turn that ambition into career success.
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Frieze Art Fair Is a Search Engine ... Or Something
Here at Hyperallergic, we're big fans of The Art Newspaper, but we can't stop snickering at this Frieze New York Daily story about the blue-chip art fair (which ends today) being like "a search engine for art." That is, in fact, the title of the article.
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Required Reading
This week, photographs and videos galore on Required Reading, including the most iconic image to emerge from the industrial disaster in Dhaka, prison photographs for sale as art, Chris Ware's lesbian Mother's Day cover, Kim Kardashian's Met ball fail, Cooper Union's fatal error, Gavin Brown on why f
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Weekend Words: Bees
It's pollen season, big time, and Weekend Words turns its attention back to bees.
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Model/Surrealist/War Photographer Revealed Through Thousands of Images
Some people manage to live many lives in their one existence, and Lee Miller with her journey from Poughkeepsie to the Surrealist scene of Paris to the front lines of World War II was definitely a woman whose life could not be singularly defined.
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Remembering Art's Role in Social Change
SAN FRANCISCO — Just as design is often seen as an afterthought for new technologies, art is often seen as superfluous to the more quantifiable work behind social change and the rhetorical and charismatic qualities of change leaders.
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Art21 Exclusive Video: James Turrell Talks About Working with Light
Walking into a work by James Turrell forces you to scrutinize the environment around you since there is so little to look at except light and color, then you realize how much there is to actually examine. Framing light, Turrell's work can feel effortless but their impact on our perceptions can be pr
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The Awkward Laughing Moment of Charles Ramsey's Hero Tale
CHICAGO — The latest internet fodder for comment threads and message boards is Charles Ramsey, a man who helped rescue three Cleveland women who were thought dead more than a decade ago. Providing quotes to the pageview-hungry internet media ("I was eatin' my McDonald's.") and others like that have