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Simon Says This Is the Best Music Video Filmed in a Museum
For his 1999 hit single "Simon Says," the Queens rapper Pharoahe Monch used one of the borough's most sci-fi structures as a post-apocalyptic battleground.
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Cruising Through Ed Ruscha’s Career in Seven Minutes
Despite his resistance to the characterization, Ed Ruscha has a reputation as a quintessential Los Angeles artist.
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Welcome to Videodrome
Once a year, Hyperallergic probes the video vault that is the internet to present a daylong series we’ve named after the 1983 sci-fi classic Videodrome.
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Required Reading
This week, the new African American museum, the troubles of nonprofit workers, Norton Museum's Cranach diptych, the Qatari art scene, colonial nostalgia, and more.
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Weekend Words: Soft
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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Wanna Be a Tate Curator? Don't Quit Your Day Job!
In mid June, Tate opened the £260 million expansion of Tate Modern, the Switch House. In mid August, it posted three job listings for assistant curator positions at Tate Britain and Tate Modern with starting annual salaries of £24,360.
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End of the Line for Detroit's Iconic Outdoor Art Installation, the Heidelberg Project
DETROIT — It is difficult for a young artist to think about her legacy.
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Required Reading
This week, goodbye, Gawker, Zombie Urbanism, Olympic medals for art, criticizing McMansions, and more.
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Weekend Words: Evaporate
"If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet."
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Marina Abramović Writes Disparagingly About Aboriginal Australians #TheRacistIsPresent
Where to begin with such a passage? Do we criticize the comparison of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia with dinosaurs? The callous description of a community that doesn't fit the "Western" beauty aesthetic?
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Required Reading
This week, why we need art, art students today, office design in Tokyo, meth in North Korea, a 17th-century Turkish travel writer, writing the other, and more.
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Weekend Words: Withdraw
"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."