Opinion
Weekend Words: Limit
What does the art market have in common with Major League Baseball and the Supreme Court? Spending limits are for suckers.
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Weekend Words: Nose
As Jillian Steinhauer reported in Hyperallergic on Monday, "The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.”
Opinion
Weekend Words: Woo
On Thursday, the New York Times published a large pull-out section, Museums, which included an article on the attempts various institutions have made at "Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons."
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Weekend Words: Wage
The only bright spot in the news this week was President Obama's executive action on Thursday, ordering the U.S. Department of Labor to revise federal rules on overtime wages, qualifying millions of Americans to receive extra pay if they work more than 40 hours a week.
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Weekend Words: Exit
This week marked the opening of the last Whitney Biennial before the museum exits its historic Marcel Breuer building, as well as the last Brucennial, courtesy of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, before it exits the scene for good.
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Weekend Words: Revive
Today's New York Times Magazine brings news from the forefront of the de-extinction movement, which hopes to use genome-editing technology to revive lost species, including "an Australian frog, extinct for 30 years, that gave birth through its mouth."
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Weekend Words: Merge
The Great Merge: after last week's news that Comcast intends to swallow Time Warner Cable, the Corcoran Gallery of Art announced that it will be subsumed by the National Gallery, and Facebook is throwing $16 billion at WhatsApp, an ad-free messaging service that charges subscribers $1 per year.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Face
On Wednesday, Hyperallergic's Mostafa Heddaya reported on the Museum of Modern Art's attempt to save face by saving the bronze plate facade of the American Folk Art Museum.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Winter (2014 Edition)
A year ago, Weekend Words gave winter its due. After the week we've had, a revisit seemed in order, this time an all-poetry tribute.
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Weekend Words: Glass
This week came the announcement that Google has teamed up with the country’s largest vision-care company in a deal that will offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for Google Glass, a move that may hasten the popularity of wearable computers.
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Weekend Words: Bridge
This week, big bridge news: the replacement for the Tappan Zee will begin construction by the end of the year, and the longest bridge in New York State will, at eight lanes, become one of the widest in the world.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Track
This week came the announcement that the director of Dia Art Foundation, Philippe Vergne, has been named to replace Jeffrey Deitch as the director of the troubled Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Will this put the museum on the right track?