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Trump Drawing Sells for $29,184 at Auction. Sad!
A 2005 drawing by the reality TV star–turned–US President has fetched a very high price at auction.
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Canada Releases World’s First Glow-in-the-Dark Coin in Circulation
The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a Northern Lights–themed luminescent coin to commemorate the country's 150th birthday.
Art
A Street Artist’s Whimsical Interventions Turn the City into a Playground
The New York-based street artist Tom Bob has a knack for bringing mundane bits of the cityscape to cartoonish life.
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Michel Houellebecq's Cynicism Persists in His Photographs
For his US gallery debut, Michel Houellebecq presents an exhibition which amounts to a theory attempting to explain the dysfunction of French society.
Books
A Performance Artist Explores “the Vast Possibilities of Black Female Subjectivity”
In her memoir Swallow the Fish, Gabrielle Civil examines the narratives she’s ingested since childhood and by which she found herself creatively propelled.
Art
A Feminist Portrait of Adolescence Through Glittery Commodities
Shaina Kasztelan’s assemblages deftly combine a metric ton of cheap commodities for girls, like stickers and plastic jewelry, to tell startling, funny, and personal stories about adolescence.
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Adrián Villar Rojas Excavates Greece’s National Identity
Adrián Villar Rojas's new installation at the National Observatory of Athens prompts thoughts about how far we should dive into the depths of our own past.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: A group of artists and activists demanded the closure of the ICA Boston's Dana Schutz exhibition, an Andy Warhol painting owned by Alice Cooper was rediscovered in a storage locker, and arts writers and cultural figures accused The Village Voice’s owner of weakening its union.
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GIFs, Webcomics, Memes, and More Join the Library of Congress Archives
The Library of Congress has added webcomics and web culture sites to its digital archives, collecting viral content that could've otherwise been lost to time.
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Lygia Pape's Daughter Sues Electronics Giant LG for Copyright Infringement
After she denied the company's requests to use an image of one of Pape's works, the company made its own derivative version, Paula Pape claims in her lawsuit.
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Florida Man Calls for Replacing Confederate Monument with Manatee Memorial
A denizen of Bradenton is petitioning the city to replace a memorial to Confederate soldiers with one for the beloved, recently deceased Snooty.
Art
When Comics Abandon Narrative and Venture into Abstraction
An exhibition at Printed Matter features 15 artists whose serial comics play with the conventions of narrative.