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Weekend Words: Shark
Today is Damien Hirst’s 50th birthday.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Beardos
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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So Many Emotions and Gay Love Cliches
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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A Clickhole into Conceptual Video Art
Clickhole, the Onion's clickbait-parodying spin-off, is producing some of the best video art on the internet.
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The Anxiety of Fitting In as an Artist
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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Bolshoi Ballerina Performs 'Dying Swan' at 61
I first saw a video of Maya Plisetskaya dancing when she died early last month.
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Carolee Schneemann REALLY Loves Her Cat
There's loving your cat, and then there's loving your cat.
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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.