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A YouTube video narrated by the Metropolitan Museum's associate curator Rebecca Rabinow gives us a quick primer on the Steins, starring Gertrude and Leo. Rabinow tells us the takeaway on one of art history's greatest collecting families.
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If you've studied the history of cinema than you've heard of Mosfilm, the renowned film studio that is reputedly the largest and oldest in Europe. Established in 1923, Mosfilm has been responsible for countless cinematic masterpieces, including many of the films created by masters Sergei Eisenstein
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New media and internet artist Cory Arcangel often appropriates artifacts from earlier digital times for his artwork. In a series of videos, Arcangel hacks cartridges of the original Nintendo game Super Mario Bros., twisting the game's graphics into surreal reinterpretations.
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We often forget that many cutting-edge modern artists found funding and support by making ads. The work of New Zealand avant-garde filmmaker Len Lye is a case in point. His films, like "Rainbow Dance" (1936) or the beautifully abstract "Colour Flight" (1938), were commissioned as advertisements to b
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Quayola is a multimedia artist based in London whose hybrid projects blur the line between photography and animation, the digital and the real. In this video, the artist filmed a cathedral in extreme high resolution, then used custom-programmed algorithms to fracture the image.
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Dedicated to legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Korine's "Curb Dancing" (2011) video feels like opening a trunk in a strange attic to discover an unfinished short story and a dusty music box.
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Artist Takeshi Murata is known for making digital works that at first glance might not look like art at all. His abstract videos take an appropriated source, here, a movie clip of a monster rising out of a pool, and distort it into something almost unrecognizable: a free for all of color, pattern an
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This video for Death Cab for Cutie's new song was art directed by Shepard Fairey and reveals a lot of the street art maestro's touch. The mood of the video is subdued and when explaining the concept for the video on his blog Fairey offers some thoughts about street art in general …
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It seems fitting to kick off our Videodrome day of art videos with one from Nam June Paik, an early video artist from Korea whose multimedia sculptures and installations challenged the boundaries of art making in the 60s and 70s. Here, check out Paik's “Electronic Opera #1”.
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Today, Hyperallergic will be presenting a series of video clips in something we're calling Videodrome. Join us for a video journey that will conjure up the bizarre, educational, surreal, manipulative and magical.
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Osama Bin Laden is dead, but that doesn't mean the vestiges of 9/11's impact on New York City are completely healed. With an infographic, the New York Times checks up on the most visible reminder of the event, the remains of Ground Zero and the construction of new World Trade Center buildings.
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In this week's recommended reading … photo essays on Afghanistan and the death of Osama bin Laden, a profile of Barbara Kruger, art won't make you unemployed, how death (or imprisonment) changes an artist's work, Hans Ulrich Obrist talks to Julian Assange, and a profile of suspected WikiLeaks source