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Weekend Words: Guide
A grim chapter of history came to a close on Monday with the death of the last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, a little more than a week before the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
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Jeff Koons Offers Charlie Rose Art Enlightenment
When last we visited Charlie Rose, he was baffling Richard Serra by asking the artist hypothetical questions about being himself. Last night Rose had another Monumental Male Artist on the show, Jeff Koons — because, as Rose says, Koons is "having a moment."
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Required Reading
This week, defining "public," the Mona Lisa of digital art, the most modern curator, Baffler online, white flags over Brooklyn, the Chinese role in WWI, Americans eligible for Man Booker prize for the first time, and more.
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Weekend Words: Mess
“‘It’s a very tangled mess,’ said Gary Samore, a former national security aide to Mr. Obama.” That’s the sum of current events as reported in an article on Obama’s response to the crises mounting around the world that appeared in Wednesday’s New York Times. Samore continues:
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New York Times Archive Reveals Art Trends
A new web app created by the research and development wing of the New York Times allow users to create graphs tracing the appearance of individual terms or phrases in the paper over the course of its century-and-a-half history.
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A Talk Show About Art
For its first original web series, Ovation TV has launched a talk show about art called Touching the Art. And why not?
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When Reality TV Imitates Art
Sometimes "homage" is the only way to understand things.
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Spike Lee Draws Out the Parallels Between Art and Life (and Death)
Does art imitate life, or is it the other way around?
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Cairo Policy Journal Delves Into Art and Politics
The summer issue of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs mingles various aspects of the political ferment in the Middle East with the world of art and aesthetics.
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Required Reading
This week, a photojournalist on a beach in Gaza, a dog saves an artist's life, CalArts in the 1970s, Žižek plagiarizes from a white supremacists, in defense of appropriation, post-Murakami Japanese art, and more.
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Weekend Words: Rain
By mid-July, more rain has fallen in the New York region (5.19 inches) than the typical average for the entire month (4.6 inches).
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Patrimony Acrimony: Italy Turns to Private Funding for Restoration
Here in the United States, our cultural heritage is something we care about, but funding it is another story. In Italy, it's long been the case idea that the government mostly pays to maintain cultural heritage, but as the state continues to struggle financially, officials are turning more and more