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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Videodrome 6/5/2015

Posted inOpinion

The Unbearable Lightness of Beardos

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 5, 2015June 5, 2015

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.

Posted inOpinion

So Many Emotions and Gay Love Cliches

by Jillian Steinhauer June 5, 2015June 5, 2015

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.

Posted inOpinion

A Clickhole into Conceptual Video Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 5, 2015June 8, 2015

Clickhole, the Onion’s clickbait-parodying spin-off, is producing some of the best video art on the internet.

Posted inOpinion

The Anxiety of Fitting In as an Artist

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 5, 2015June 7, 2015

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

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino June 5, 2015June 7, 2015

I first saw a video of Maya Plisetskaya dancing when she died early last month.

Posted inOpinion

Carolee Schneemann REALLY Loves Her Cat

by Jillian Steinhauer June 5, 2015

There’s loving your cat, and then there’s loving your cat.

Posted inOpinion

How Frieze Art Fair Is Like a Dead Doughnut

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 5, 2015June 5, 2015

Many criticisms have been leveled at art fairs.

Posted inOpinion

Lucian Freud, on His Last Day of Painting

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino June 5, 2015June 7, 2015

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

Posted inOpinion

Colorizing the Lumière Brothers’ Cinematograph

by Jillian Steinhauer June 5, 2015June 5, 2015

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.

Posted inOpinion

Louise Bourgeois Peels a Tangerine

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino June 5, 2015June 7, 2015

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.

Posted inOpinion

Welcome to Videodrome

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 5, 2015June 5, 2015

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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