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Required Reading
As we hunker down for Hurricane Irene, we decided to make this week's Required Reading a photo-heavy one. From images of chairs to maps comparing New York to cities around the world, there are images galore in the links.
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Stephen Colbert on Art Redux
There's nothing like an entertaining compilation of art-related Stephen Colbert banter to brighten up your pre-hurricane Friday. Enjoy.
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Joining A Contemporary Art Biker Gang With John Waters
Pope of Trash, filmmaker John Waters, who is known for his filthy classics like Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Hairspray, has joined a biker gang. Surprisingly, it is a contemporary art biker gang.
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When a Piece of History Disappears
I was touched by a post written by art critic Mary Louise Schumacher, who blogged about the disappearance of a beloved frieze on the facade of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper building, where she works.
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Is the Internet the Death of Performance Art?
Did video kill the performance art star? The New York Times asks this question in an article that claims that the constant spectacle of YouTube and social media have trumped performance art's shock value.
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Required Reading
This week's Required Reading includes Tracey Emin's gift to 10 Downing St, you too can levitate in photos, Koons as roadkill, Nike's swoosh is 40, internet art bubble, evolution of the hipster, autobot aethetics, street art in East Timor & more.
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The Museum In Your Video Game
Since 8-bit everything is so in nowadays, it should be no surprise that the geeks (I admit, I can be one) are combing over vintage (and more recent) video games to find glimpses of art and other visual treats. Here are some screenshots that would make the art set look twice when they partake in vide
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How An Artist in 1881 Imagined the New York of the Future
"When cartoonist Thomas Nast drew this illustration of future Manhattan for Harper's Weekly in 1881, Trinity Church was the tallest building in New York, with its spire and cross reaching 281 feet into the heavens." [Paleofuture [http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2011/8/18/new-yorks-tallest-building-o
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T-shirts Are the New Galleries: Top 10 Artist Tees
The artist t-shirt is a development we’ve known here at Hyperallergic for some time, but we thought it’d be good to let our readers explore it further. The blurry line demarcating art and fashion is obfuscated when artists have a hand in designing clothes. Is it just a cheap ploy to stock the gift s
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Painter Chris Martin Goes Really Big in DC
I'm as big of a Chris Martin fan as vlogger and writer James Kalm (aka painter Loren Munk), so the video he just uploaded on YouTube of Martin's new solo person museum show — his first — at the Corcoran Gallery of Artin Washington, DC, is a treat.
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Saving The Queen In Art and Image
Most of the works in The Queen: Art and Image, now on view at the National Gallery complex in Edinburgh and traveling to two other venues before opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London next spring, are perfect representations of the times during which they were created.
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Required Reading
This week, architect Frank Lloyd Wright talks about the corner window, which he says is "an idea conceived early in my work that the box is a fascist symbol," the mess that Mark Rothko's suicide created, the first signs of street art about the UK riots, discovering work from the master of correspond