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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.
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Five of the Best Presidential Campaign Ads from the Past 70 Years
With Hurricane Sandy relentlessly bearing down on the East Coast, we know many people are cooped up at home and more than a little flood obsessed. But we thought we might just remind everyone there's another really big event right around the corner: that presidential election we were all tweeting ab
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An Amazing Look at Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Harvesters"
This great video tells the very detailed history of Bruegel's August/September masterpiece, "The Harvesters" (1565).
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What Are Your Favorite Flood Artworks?
The staff of Hyperallergic is working from their homes today since Hurricane Sandy has us all homebound awaiting what meterologists say will be a deluge … and it got us thinking about the history of flood paintings
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Required Reading
This week, scoring US Congress on the arts, Gangnam Style opinions and facts, science looks at us looking at art, the Seattle Art Museum goes all female, the highest skyscraper is going to be built in five months, Daniel Liebeskind is not an architect, and more.
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Weekend Words
With Halloween around the corner and Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” taking up temporary residence at the Museum of Modern Art, the first Weekend Word is “terror”:
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Berkeley's Giant Bonsai Trees
BERKELEY, California — Berkeley's unusually large population of giant Bonsai-like trees has caught my attention since moving from Brooklyn. Why are they here and what do they mean?
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Should Museums Exhibit Bad Art?
BBC Arts Editor and former Tate director Will Gompertz has a piece in the Wall Street Journal this week advocating a curious proposal: museums, he says, should mount shows of bad art.
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An Escape Pod for the 1%
Wes Heiss’s presentation of "Chariot" at Vox Populi, an artist-run gallery in Philly, is a modest proposal for an uber-wealthy escape pod. Offering all the trappings of a trade show, Heiss’s exhibition convincingly makes a case for protecting oneself from a plebeian demise.