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Better Than Performance Art
On Wednesday, artist Jayson Musson tweeted "lol this performance art scene in She's All That is better than real performance art," and his 84 characters opened the flood gates of memory for me.
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Taylor Swift as Microcosm for the Art World
Do you ever feel like the art world is sort of like high school, or life at a small liberal arts college? Or maybe just a blowout party you're not actually sure you were invited to, but you decided to show up anyway?
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Welcome to Videodrome
Every year, Hyperallergic pays tribute to David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), the classic sci-fi thriller, with a 12-hour journey through videos we discover littering the internet.
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Butterflies Make Art
Every winter, Monarch butterflies retreat to Central Mexico to spend the chilly months hibernating in the trees. But in the past decade, deforestation, pesticides, and climate change have threatened their journey.
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Required Reading
This week, discovering Warhol silkscreened your father, rebel architects, Muslim youth's rebel music, Gramsci Monument redux, Dante's heaven, and more.
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Weekend Words: Dollar
Forty-seven years ago today, Abbie Hoffman led a dozen members of the Youth International Party into the visitors’ gallery of the New York Stock Exchange and threw fistfuls of dollar bills to the trading floor below.
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Required Reading
This week, photography's truth, the media's numbness to torture, the clock of the Met Museum, mass art, a photo no one would publish, mistakes in Medieval English architecture, and more.
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Weekend Words: Flag
This week it was revealed that the masterminds behind the mysterious appearance of a white flag atop the Brooklyn Bridge on July 22nd were artists after all.
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Man Behind I NY Tries Branding Climate Change
Global warming is a phrase that pops up just about everywhere, ensuring that we confront our planet's worsening climate changes. Designer Milton Glaser, however, is aiming to stress that the reality of the environmental situation is much worse than the term 'warming' would suggest.
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Hashtagging Racism: The Power of #IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Last night, in Ferguson, Missouri, police in riot gear entered residential neighbourhoods and lobbed teargas, flash bombs, rubber bullets, and noise cannons (also known as LRAD or Long Range Acoustic Devices) at people who were gathered peacefully to protest the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old, Mi
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Ancient Statues Pose for Selfies
It’s one thing to take a #museumselfie with a work of art, as if to say, “yes, I was here with this artwork” or “yes, here is my reflection in the surface of this piece.” It’s another thing to make Greco-Roman statues look like they were chiseled specifically for selfie-shooting moments.
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Liberté, Égalité, and … Beyoncé
For the days when you don't feel a sense of brotherhood, there is Beyoncé.