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Curb Dance with Harmony Korine
Dedicated to legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Korine's "Curb Dancing" (2011) video feels like opening a trunk in a strange attic to discover an unfinished short story and a dusty music box.
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Takeshi Murata's Glitched-Out “Monster Movie”
Artist Takeshi Murata is known for making digital works that at first glance might not look like art at all. His abstract videos take an appropriated source, here, a movie clip of a monster rising out of a pool, and distort it into something almost unrecognizable: a free for all of color, pattern an
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Death Cab For Cutie's "Home Is A Fire" by Shepard Fairey
This video for Death Cab for Cutie's new song was art directed by Shepard Fairey and reveals a lot of the street art maestro's touch. The mood of the video is subdued and when explaining the concept for the video on his blog Fairey offers some thoughts about street art in general …
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Nam June Paik's “Electronic Space Opera #1”
It seems fitting to kick off our Videodrome day of art videos with one from Nam June Paik, an early video artist from Korea whose multimedia sculptures and installations challenged the boundaries of art making in the 60s and 70s. Here, check out Paik's “Electronic Opera #1”.
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Today on Hyperallergic … Welcome to Videodrome
Today, Hyperallergic will be presenting a series of video clips in something we're calling Videodrome. Join us for a video journey that will conjure up the bizarre, educational, surreal, manipulative and magical.
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Why Are So Many Museums Buying Christian Marclay's “The Clock”?
The Boston MFA is purchasing Christian Marclay's epic movie mash-up “The Clock” (2010) (recently on view in NYC) for $250,000. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art bought the piece in April, and there are rumors that MoMA plans to do the same. What's up with this collecting fad?
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Tom Otterness Explains His Public Subway Art
Every wondered what the story was behind those bronze sculptures populating the 8th Ave/14th St ACE subway station? In this video, their creator, Tom Otterness, explains that he took the imagery for the sculptures from Gilded Age political cartoons. Too bad the artist is currently in some political
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How the Sun Sets in Google Images
Can a sunset be crowd-sourced? Artist Jasper Elings has done just that with “Sharing a Beautiful Sunset” (2009), a 1 minute video that creates one single ocean sunset from hundreds of disparate images found on Google Images. The resulting video, set to a industrial drone soundtrack, is both poetic f
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Small Child Confused, Delighted by Kusama Dot Room
All art lovers have had those revelatory moments when visual art just blows our minds. It's surprising, beautiful, provocative, painful, confusing and every kind of emotion at once. I think that's what the small child in this video is feeling when he wanders into one of Yayoi Kusama's infinite dot r
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Francis Bacon Describes His Painting Process
In this 1985 documentary on the artist, made while he was still very much alive, Francis Bacon talks through one of his most iconic works and explains how he makes paintings. The artist also slowly gets very drunk and discusses the beauty of the word “voluptuous.”
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Water Gun Fight In a Museum!
Jason Eppink describes himself online as an "Urban Alchemist, Rapid Prototyper, Mischief Maker," so it should come as no surprise that he stirred things up during his February 24 lecture at the Museum of Arts and Design with a water gun fight.
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Watch a Vintage Eames Lounge Chair Get Assembled
The Eames Lounge Chair is probably the single most iconic piece of high modernist furniture ever made. Designed by famed modernist designer couple Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company, the Lounge's sleek wooden curves and sumptuous leather have pretty much become a byword fo