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Required Reading
This week, pornographic prehistoric art, the military-architectural complex, war photography, art historians and the internet, the man who owns The Scream, reasons to write about the art market, and more.
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Weekend Words: Shopping
Now that the Holiday Shopping Season is upon us, we turn first to someone who knew a thing or two about shopping
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Pushing Back Against Walmart
What’s the best way to combat the post-Thanksgiving hangover? Probably not waking up before dawn (or even after dinner) and lining up at a store to buy stuff. This Black Friday, let’s celebrate instead with a slew of anti-consumption posters and memes, many of which are supporting Walmart’s employee
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Cats Non-Ironically Eating Turkey
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Another Gangnam Style: When Memes Make You Hate Them
I think it's happened: I've hit my Gangnam Style limit with this new video by Anish Kapoor and his cohorts in museums and galleries (not to mention random offices and people) around the world.
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What If "The Scream" Came Alive?
Romanian artist Sebastian Cosor creates a very personal animated vision of the world inhabited by Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893–1910) and sets it all to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky" (1973).
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Overheard at The Scream
Smartphone pics aren't the only source of social media buzz circulating around Edvard Munch's "The Scream, currently at MoMA. The chatter on Twitter is pretty funny, intriguing, and sometimes revealing, even if some of it is not directly related (but funny nonetheless).
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More Resources to Help You Recover from Sandy
For those still struggling to recover from Hurricane Sandy and the destruction left in its wake, we've rounded up a few more ways that you can get help.
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Required Reading
This week, the best thing you'll read today, the dying GIF, art auction records, the insularity of the New Aesthetic, the meaning of Edgar Degas' history paintings, and more.
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Weekend Words
An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors. This week, as portions of the city remain decimated by Hurricane Sandy, at Sotheby's and Christie’s nearly $1 billion was spent on contemporary art.
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MoMA Goes Gangnam Style in Support of Ai Weiwei
The Museum of Modern Art posted this pretty fantastic photo on its Facebook page today — a shot of museum staff going Gangnam Style in support of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. If you're confused about why a New York museum would support a Chinese artist by dancing to a mega-popular song by South Korean
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TV Network Gets Man With Art Doppelganger to Dress the Part
ABC News has convinced Max Galuppo of Bloomsbury, NJ, who was propelled into the public spotlight when Reddit users couldn't believe how much he looked like “Portrait of a Nobleman with Duelling Gauntlet” (1562) by an anonymous artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to dress up like the 16th C. I