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Art Rx
This week, art galleries are overrun with karaoke and jacuzzis, plus an exhibition of war photography and the grand reopening of the Queens Museum.
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Opinion
Remembering the Value of an Arts Education
Ask a contemporary college student about their average day, and they'll probably tell you they spend it multitasking. Classes here, academic clubs there, maybe a fraternity/sorority event, and then of course community service. No surprises there. But what might be a surprise is that this sort of hec
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Five Things I Learned While Teaching a Class on Arts and Labor
In August and September I facilitated a class focused on labor issues within the arts. Specifically, we looked at how and when artists receive or don’t receive payment for their work, and the broader implications of compensating artists. Because there was such a great mix of students in the class wo
Opinion
Don't Give It Away for Free!
Last week, a New York Times opinion piece fired up my Facebook newsfeed. Titled "Slaves of the Internet, Unite!" and penned by Tim Kreider, the piece pleads with writers not to indulge in that pervasive and pernicious cultural habit: writing for free.
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How to Talk About Art: Banksy's 3 Ps (#H2TAA)
The best way to begin talking about Banksy, right now, following his October New York Residency, would be to NOT talk about Banksy. Not just because of the press overload, but because there’s something big that the media has been ignoring … and that’s context.
News
1,500 Works of Nazi-Looted Art Discovered in Munich
First reported in the German media, news broke yesterday of an estimated €1bn ($1.35bn) of Nazi-seized art uncovered during a raid on an octogenarian's Munich apartment in 2011. A total of 1,500 works — paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka
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Stop Freaking Out About Funeral Selfies
CHICAGO — We haven't figured out the boundaries of a private vs. public internet. For one, it's a highly subjective matter and doesn't require hard and fast rules — especially not for the teenagers who are shaping it.
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Cats, Pot, Movies, Music, and Favorite Books: NYC's 2013 Mayoral Election
Since the battle lines were drawn in the wake of September's primary, Bill De Blasio's strategy of political keep-away has morphed the mayoral contest into a slow moving triumphal parade, but here are some facts that might help you get to know the candidates better.
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Abstracting Daily Experience
Shortly after President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage in May 2012, the online version of the Guardian came out with an interactive graph depicting gay rights in the US on a state by state basis.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, race/ethnicity stats in popular film, the world's first emoji movie, helping the blind see art, problems for photojournalists in Russia, Cornell returns tablets to Iraq, Saddam Hussein's former palace becomes a museum, and much more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Soul
This week we celebrated All Hallow's Eve, All Saints Day and last but not least, since it includes just about everybody, All Souls Day.
Art
Dark Paintings Done in a Dark Time: Lester Johnson’s Men
Lester Johnson (1919–2010) was an innovative figurative painter who has never quite fit into any of the accepted narratives of postwar American art, and that alone makes his work worthy of a longer look.