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My recent article on Bushwick Open Studios for Hyperallergic tried to discuss the influence of American Indian spirituality on the new age symbolism that I saw in many art works. However, the article didn't capture this fraught process of appropriation and commodification well enough.
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Just in time for your summer beach trip, J. Crew has released a limited-edition tote bag emblazoned with a Slurpee-shaded landscape and discreet sans serif lettering wishing “Love to Nepal.”
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This week, whiteness of the avant-garde, history of ultramarine, Christo's new project in Italy, rise of the Yuccies, Jane Austen getting workshopped, and more.
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“Contemporary art’s job is to wreck what came before.” John Waters, from his commencement speech at the Rhode Island School of Design last weekend.
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Bjarke Ingels revealed his proposal for 2 World Trade Center in an article for Wired on Tuesday. The final unbuilt plot at the hallowed New York City site — which had for a decade been reserved for a Norman Foster-designed scheme — may now give rise to a dramatically stepped, 1,340-foot glass tower.
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This week, erasing women from Impressionism, Miss Piggy as feminist, gentrification of the self, Louis Armstrong talks pot, inside the ka'ba, and more.
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Today is Damien Hirst’s 50th birthday.
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The master of the cat meme, Scott Chasse has a knack for paring down his imagery into their bare bones, so much so that they transform into glyphs or signs that are both familiar and alien in their message.
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Artist Jennifer Chan is masterful at remixing images and video clips from pop culture, overlaying text with a '90s special-effects aesthetic and often setting the carefully coordinated pieces to catchy pop songs.
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Clickhole, the Onion's clickbait-parodying spin-off, is producing some of the best video art on the internet.
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In Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence (1973), the writer discusses the historical pull of precedents for poets and other artists.
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I first saw a video of Maya Plisetskaya dancing when she died early last month.