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The Multiplying Border
"The border is an elastic regime, rather than a fixed line, that can exist anywhere and everywhere."
A Funkier, Feminist Form of Pattern and Decoration
Judy Ledgerwood turns the decorous decorum of Pattern & Decoration into something fanciful, forthright, and frankly vulgar.
Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse
A retrospective projects the fear that the world is not the nice place we want it to be, no matter how much we play pretend.
The Video Game of Life
In Lu Yang’s hypnotic arcade, Buddhist cosmology refracts through gaming culture.
John Yau in Conversation with Sean Scully
Hyperallergic members are invited to join us on November 5 for a virtual conversation with critic John Yau and artist Sean Scully.
10 Exhibitions to See in Paris This Fall
Surveys of French giants like Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre take center stage, but the city’s zeitgeist is perhaps best captured outside the big museum circuit.
A New Powerhouse in the Art World
The nonprofit arts organization plans to create a 170,000-square-foot exhibition space and performance venue.
Artists Are Helping Revive Jane Fonda-Led Free Speech Group
The Committee for the First Amendment fought against the censorship of cultural workers during the McCarthy era.
How to Be a Good Explorer in the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself
Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another. Along the way, we keep confusing experiment and exploration. An experiment
Visit Artist Studios at the Manufacturers Village in East Orange, New Jersey
On October 18 and 19, the artists of Manufacturers Village invite you to visit their studios in historic 19th-century factory buildings.
Do no harm
After 17 years of struggling with a heroin addiction, Raina finds a path to recovery through compassion and connection - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Holes in the web
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too - by Deepak Varuvel Dennison Read on Aeon
Two useful AI tactics
Create a document, several pages long, that explains who you are. What sort of learner are you? Do you have degrees or expertise? What sort of change are you making, who works with you, what are your standards? How do you want to engage? Periodically, upload the doc to the chat
The 1976 Synth Album That Promised to Help Your Plants Grow: Discover Mother Earth’s Plantasia
In 1973, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird’s The Secret Life of Plants became a bestseller. Drawing from the results of scientific studies about whose replicability we may now feel certain doubts, the book suggested that emotion, and indeed sentience, belong not just to
Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter
My Penguin Classics copy of Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi sits alone atop an overfull shelf. There is a bookmark on page 204, exactly halfway through, torn from an in-flight duty-free catalog—whiskey and fancy pens. It tells me “hey, you forgot to finish this, you