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How Frieze Art Fair Is Like a Dead Doughnut

Many criticisms have been leveled at art fairs.

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Lucian Freud, on His Last Day of Painting

This video allegedly records Lucian Freud’s last day of painting: July 3, 2011, roughly two weeks before he died at age 88.

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Colorizing the Lumière Brothers' Cinematograph

In 1895, brothers Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean Lumière patented their cinematograph — a hand-cranked motion-picture camera inside a wooden box that weighed 16 pounds — and shot their first film on it, of workers leaving the Lumière factory.

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Louise Bourgeois Peels a Tangerine

After family dinners, Louise Bourgeois says of her childhood, everyone “was supposed to bring some kind of entertainment.” Dinner entertainment clearly came with a sense of obligation. It wasn’t, exactly, fun.

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Welcome to Videodrome

Periodically Hyperallergic delves into the video archives of the internet to present a daylong series we've named after the 1983 classic Canadian sci-fi film by David Cronenberg, Videodrome. Today, we do it again.

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Does the Golden Ratio Not Measure Up?

Le Corbusier designed glimmering high-rises while Salvador Dali painted implausible landscapes, yet they had one thing in common: both embraced the golden ratio as gospel and used it in their work.

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Every Architectural Rendering Needs an Alexander Calder Sculpture

What is it about Alexander Calder sculptures that makes them irresistible to the artists who create architectural renderings?

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Required Reading

This week, what scared Hitchcock, the future of digital arts publishing, paying for digital art commissions, copying what ISIS destroyed, an oil spill in "Christina's World," and more.