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Required Reading
This week, horizontal skyscrapers, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica meltdown, living in a masterpiece, death tribute cartoons, the politics of Google Maps, and more.
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The Unwanted Guest at Modernism’s Table
Martin Barré’s work refutes the American view that painting is something that could be used up — as if it came in a pail rather than a well.
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Cy Twombly’s Extravagant Synesthesia
Rosalind Krauss misreads Twombly in more ways than I can enumerate.
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The Places Rex Tillerson Didn’t Go
Trump's Secretary of State, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil, takes the exit ramp.
Books
The Impossible Beauty of New York's 1980s Ballroom Scene
Joseph Cassara depicts the harrowing effects of AIDS on a community that was systematically dismissed and under-served by the city of New York.
Music
A K-Pop Flash in the Darkness
As with any deceased musician, there’s the temptation to speculate how much Jonghyun’s real-life suffering informed the music.
Interview
An Interview with Lynne Tillman
The novelist and critic discusses her new book of fiction -- Men and Apparitions.
News
Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art Is the First Museum Certified by W.A.G.E.
Many nonprofit and artist-run spaces have earned Working Artists and the Greater Economy's stamp of approval since it launched its certification process in 2014, but the ICA is the first museum to do so.
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Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships
The Goethe Institut has invited artists to reflect upon memory and its loss, generating a variety of projects in seven cities across the continent.
News
Trump Signs Bill Boosting the NEA and NEH Budgets He Wanted to Eliminate
The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities will each receive about $153 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2018, around $3 million more than in 2017.
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Anti-Trump Mural Sparks ACLU Lawsuit and Public Art Dispute in New Orleans
Shortly after putting up a mural on his private property last year, Neal Morris received a letter from the city demanding its immediate removal and threatening jail time.
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Visiting the NRA's National Firearms Museum in the Wake of the Parkland Shooting
While most US art and history museums have shied away from addressing gun violence and gun control, one institution has remained assertively pro-firearms.