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Carolee Schneemann REALLY Loves Her Cat
There's loving your cat, and then there's loving your cat.
Videodrome
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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.
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And this concludes … Videodrome
Thanks for watching our daylong stream of videos from across the internet.
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Irma Vep as a Space Between the Artist and Her Creation
Artist Michelle Handelman has taken the epic 7-hour film Les Vampires about a bizarre underground criminal gang and transformed into "Irma Vep, The Last Breath," a video project that is about "living in the shadows, criminal anxiety and the relationship between the artist and her creation, both fict
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The Love Songs of Saddam Hussein
Commissioned by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the songs in Adel Abidin's "Three Love Songs" (2010) are transformed into sinister pop music videos that use attractive blonde women as conduits for the fallen dictator's propaganda.
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The Mediated Reality of Harun Farocki
Last month, German filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki died at the age of 70. Farocki made films that were unabashedly political yet remarkably reserved.
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William Wegman and Robert Breer's New Wave
In the 1980s, the dream of going pop — as in pop culture rather than Pop art — in the art wold was raging strong, and many people thought it practically imminent.
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Baudelaire, Michael Jackson, and Modernism
One of my favorite pieces included in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem earlier this year was Adam Pendleton's "Lorraine O'Grady: A Portrait" (2012).