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Frank Gehry Designs the New Eisenhower Memorial

  • by Hrag Vartanian on March 26, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on March 26, 2010

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Culture Monster has the specifics on this new landmark in central Washington, DC by starchitect Frank Gehry:

The memorial to the 34th president will be built on a four-acre site along Independence Avenue, close to but not directly on the National Mall and backing up to the Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Essays

Spencer Tunick, Terence Koh, Francesco Vezzoli…Does Lady Gaga Need An Art Teacher?

  • by Hrag Vartanian on February 23, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on February 23, 2010

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The age of celebrity art has dawned and no one is a better example of that high-end marriage between the haves and the haves than pop singer Lady Gaga. It has been a long time coming for the maven of the dancefloor, whose every move feels like a tribute to 1990s club kid culture. Yet, her recent collaborations with Francesco Vezzoli and Terence Koh raises the question, does she desperately need an art teacher?

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Best of the Aughts: The 11 Best Headlines for a Delusional Decade

  • by The Editors on January 25, 2010

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by The Editors on January 25, 2010

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We were recently deleting our hard drives from the aughts in an effort to upload everything into the cloud and we found these gems among the files. We almost forgot these things happened … oh wait, did they? Who remembers.

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