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# Required Reading
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/required-reading-19/
- Published: 2011-07-10T11:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:36:01.000Z
- Description: This week's Required Reading examines how copyright law impacts images by animals, art's LGBT problem, a history of English, China's political prisoners, against reviews and Frank Lloyd Wright's dislike of intellectuals.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Animal Rights, China, Copyright, Frank Lloyd Wright, lgbt, Required Reading, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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A black macaque monkey in Indonesia takes his self-portrait using a camera. (via Daily Mail)

This week’s Required Reading examines how copyright law impacts images by animals, art’s LGBT problem, a history of English, China’s political prisoners, against reviews and Frank Lloyd Wright’s dislike of intellectuals.

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Did you hear about the recent [monkey self-portraits](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011051/Black-macaque-takes-self-portrait-Monkey-borrows-photographers-camera.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)? Well, here’s an interesting questions: **When a monkey takes a photo,** [**who owns the copyright**](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110706/00200314983/monkey-business-can-monkey-license-its-copyrights-to-news-agency.shtml?ref=hyperallergic.com)**?**

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Philip Kenicott examines the [art world’s unhealthy relationship with all things LGBT](http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/art-has-yet-to-face-up-to-homosexuality/2011/06/28/AGByfotH%5Fprint.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). Tyler Green asks if [Cy Twombly, who died this week, was “hetero-normalized](http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2011/07/was-twombly-hetero-normalized-too/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” — while I hate that word, it’s an important question.

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A video that tells the [history of English](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES3qDORQjAA&ref=hyperallergic.com) in ten minutes.

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Jonathan Mirsky writes about [China’s political prisoners](http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jun/30/true-confessions/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (including Ai Weiwei) at the *New York Review of Books*.

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Some thoughts over at n+1 about [reviews](http://nplusonemag.com/against-reviews?ref=hyperallergic.com):

> If book reviews are nothing but free advertising, they are among the most ineffectual, ill-conceived marketing campaigns ever conceived. It’s strange to think that an account of what’s inside a book would be a good way to sell it. Imagine if McDonald’s commercials told you what went into a Big Mac: rehydrated onions, high-fructose corn syrup, ammonia-treated beef.

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[Frank Lloyd Wright speaking](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuGiAdaVmS0&ref=hyperallergic.com) in 1957 about this dislike of intellectuals:

> “I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.”

[*Required Reading*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/required-reading/) *is published every Sunday morning, and it is comprised of a short list of art-related links (10 or less) to long-form articles, videos, blog posts or photo essays worth a second look.*