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Required Reading
This week, US is tops, LA's MOCA drama in GIFs, UAE's censorship problems, Michael Crichton on Jasper Johns, The Thing is back, and more.
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Weekend Words: Honey
A brief report in this week's Science Times tells us that "some plants, notably coffee and citrus, attract pollinators with caffeine-laced nectar, which gets the bees hooked as repeat customers." Weekend Words welcomes the news of a hitherto unknown species of caffeine addicts with a squirt of honey
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With a New Pope, a New Chance for Openness on Art and History Seems Missed
With Catholicism's long connection with the arts, from Michelangelo making the Sistine Chapel a place of transcendence to the Vatican Museums' huge troves of artifacts and art, it's worth looking at how the incoming pope may feel about contemporary visual culture. Yet while the outgoing Pope Benedic
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Tell Us Who Your Favorite Artist Is or Lose Your Job
Normally, the stakes to this answer aren't quite so high. The advertising agency CP+B recently administered an "aptitude test" to its art directors that included the question "What is your favorite piece of art?" and "Who is your favorite designer, art director, or artist?" Would your answer stand u
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Object-Oriented Curating Continues in 2013 Venice Biennale
The artist list has just been released for New Museum associate director and curator Massimiliano Gioni's 2013 Venice Biennale, and it features a slew of established names, including Tacita Dean, Carl Andre, and Bruce Nauman. More provocatively, the show will also feature some appropriated objects:
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In Case You Missed It: What Is Tumblr Art?
During last Saturday's The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium, Hyperallergic intern Arianne Wack talked to the people who attended the event and asked them what they thought of when they heard Tumblr and art. Here is what she found:
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New York's Outdated Payphones Will Become Sleek, Digital Kiosks
The winners of a city-sponsored contest to redesign New York's payphones have been announced, and it looks like the clunky yet iconic — and these days, often broken — booths of decades past will soon be replaced by slim, digital screens offering wifi, summaries of weather conditions, a chance to pay
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Is 4D Printing a Thing?
If you thought 3D printing was confusing, just wait until four-dimensional printing hits. The somewhat erroneously named term has come into vogue as of late with a few MIT-driven projects that promise to lead the way for self-assembling skyscrapers, among other futuristic phenomena.
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Guggenheim's Richard Armstrong Responds to “When Artspeak Masks Oppression”
Richard Armstrong, the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, contacted Hyperallergic with the following response to "When Artspeak Masks Oppression” (March 6, 2013) by Mostafa Heddaya.
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The Bus Station Theory, or, Why You Should Stick to Your Own Pursuit of Creativity
There are plenty of ways to think about planning an artistic career. Are you aiming to be the enfant terrible, a young provocateur? Or are you playing the long game, sticking with your work until it gets recognized? In The Guardian, Oliver Burkeman outlines a new theory of creative growth that I had
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Required Reading
This week, William Wegman's first GIF, what it means to be Canadian, books that shaped art history, copyright infringement as terrorism, auction houses in India and China, and more.
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Weekend Words: Yesterday
This week, the Armory Show celebrates 100 years of modern art in the U.S.; for Weekend Words, it feels like yesterday.