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Framing a Masterpiece
If you're the framer at a museum, your job is often to ensure that no one really notices what you do, particularly if your choice may obstruct or overpower an art work.
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The Futuristic Folly of the Dymaxion House
Architect Buckminster Fuller's wondrous vision continues to tickle our imagination, but few of his radical theories and futuristic designs were as enthralling as the Dymaxion House.
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Welcome to the Videodrome
Today, Hyperallergic will be immersed in something we like to call Videodrome.
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Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Program
Thank you for joining us for Videodrome #1. Here is a complete list of today's programming …
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General Idea Tells You to Shut the Fuck Up
There's something about General Idea that always felt ahead of its time. Videos like "Shut the Fuck Up" (1984) foreshadows the mashup culture of today but with a decidedly anti-establishment feel, even though they were obviously designed for the capitalist art market.
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An Idiot's Guide to the Steins
A YouTube video narrated by the Metropolitan Museum's associate curator Rebecca Rabinow gives us a quick primer on the Steins, starring Gertrude and Leo. Rabinow tells us the takeaway on one of art history's greatest collecting families.
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Soviet Celluloid Treasures on YouTube
If you've studied the history of cinema than you've heard of Mosfilm, the renowned film studio that is reputedly the largest and oldest in Europe. Established in 1923, Mosfilm has been responsible for countless cinematic masterpieces, including many of the films created by masters Sergei Eisenstein
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Cory Arcangel's Surrealist Super Mario
New media and internet artist Cory Arcangel often appropriates artifacts from earlier digital times for his artwork. In a series of videos, Arcangel hacks cartridges of the original Nintendo game Super Mario Bros., twisting the game's graphics into surreal reinterpretations.
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When Ads Could Be Avant-garde
We often forget that many cutting-edge modern artists found funding and support by making ads. The work of New Zealand avant-garde filmmaker Len Lye is a case in point. His films, like "Rainbow Dance" (1936) or the beautifully abstract "Colour Flight" (1938), were commissioned as advertisements to b
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Quayola Fractures a Roman Cathedral
Quayola is a multimedia artist based in London whose hybrid projects blur the line between photography and animation, the digital and the real. In this video, the artist filmed a cathedral in extreme high resolution, then used custom-programmed algorithms to fracture the image.
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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