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Required Reading
This week, designing for catastrophes, Chelsea's survival, Canada's art biennial, Toronto's take on street art, Jeff Koons and Basque separatists, and more.
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Weekend Words
An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors. The election, the aftermath, the game…
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Watch Jean Cocteau's Nightmarish First Feature Film
Inveterate surrealist and playwright, artist, and writer polymath Jean Cocteau said that his first film, The Blood of a Poet (1929), wasn't a work of surrealism — he wanted to "avoid the deliberate manifestations of the unconscious." But, I have to say, it's pretty surreal.
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Piecing America Together
While a minority of Americans are in a post-election meltdown over the browning of America, I feel compelled to admit that the part of America that is in a constant state of flux, always shifting, moving, changing, and accepting of the fact that the only things that unite Americans are a few ideas,
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Did Gagosian Play Both Sides of a Deal?
Remember that infamous "make a cruel and offensive offer" email from Gagosian gallery Los Angeles director Deborah McLeod? She suggested that to a potential buyer for a 1964 Roy Lichtenstein painting, "Girl in Mirror," since the seller was in "terrible straits." Well, that seller is pretty angry at
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New Trends in Global Urbanism
The BMW Guggenheim Lab, that UFO of urban experimentation that took up residence in New York City and Berlin, has just published a helpful guide to the most recent trends in city activity. Here are some of the major trends contained therein.
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The Post-Election State of Arts Funding
The Americans for the Arts Action Fund President and CEO Robert L. Lynch has issued a statement today regarding last night's election results and we found the whole thing — packed full of interesting facts about the election that many of us didn't know — important enough to post here.
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Obamariffic Victory GIFs, Photos, and Memes
After what had been seen as a tight race, nail-biting election returns, and an interminable wait period for Mitt Romney to actually concede (and for Barack Obama to come out and give a victory speech), we finally have a confirmed president for the next four years. Here's what Obama's win looked like
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And Obama Wins!
Hyperallergic endorsed US President Barack Obama a few weeks ago, and we're happy to report that the Democratic nominee has been elected to a second term today.
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Constructing Instead of Consuming: DIY Furniture
Industrial design purports to offer efficient, elegant solutions to life's problems in formats accessible to everyone — it's the dream of changing the world through mass manufacturing. But how often does design actually accomplish that goal?
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Required Reading
This week, Ai Weiwei on the internet, the risk of reporting on memes, Dave Hickey on art now, academic and artistic freedom in Wyoming, Trevor Paglen has a moment, everyone hates the art market, Kickstarter and ads,and more.
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Weekend Words
An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors.