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Instagrams from Frieze Week
We've been having a lot of fun with our Instagram feed, and over the last week we gave followers a firsthand look at the art fairs and events in New York during Frieze Week.
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This week, Peggy Guggenheim troubles, bell hooks on Beyoncé, Marianne Boesky on art, an unknown genius of Art Deco, lack of diversity at the National Gallery of Art, ruining Thomas Kinkade, and more.
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Weekend Words: Foster
After fierce opposition from scholars, writers, critics and the public, the New York Public Library announced this week that it has reversed its plan, developed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Norman Foster (aka Lord Foster of Thames Bank), to revamp its landmark Beaux-Arts building on Fifth Ave
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People Can't Stop Looking at Art
We may have moved from magnifying glasses and paper brochures to smartphones, but otherwise not much has changed about looking at art.
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Required Reading
This week, the secret of the pyramids, morality of architects, bell hooks on Sheryl Sandberg's "faux feminism," photographing "whiteness," Whitney Biennial on Charlie Rose, and more.
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Weekend Words: Move
The Whitney Museum will soon be moving to its new location near the High Line, and the Metropolitan Museum will be moving its modern and contemporary art collection into the Whitney's historic Marcel Breuer building.
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Google Glass Sponsorship Bodes Ill for New Museum
The future of art has arrived, and it looks ... not like James Franco dressed in drag, but like a software developer wearing a silly-looking pair of futuristic glasses. Yes, the future of art is a Glasshole, coming to a museum near you.
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Life-size Dolls of the Dead and Disappeared
"I never thought it would turn into this," 64-year-old Ayano Tsukimi says while surveying her decade-long dedication to making dolls of the dead and disappeared in her nearly abandoned town of Nagoro, Japan.
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New York Times Dramatizes Absurd Legal Transcript
A new video series at the New York Times seeks to remedy the suspension of disbelief often required when dealing with the absurd in "court trials, depositions, or government hearings."
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"Dia de los Muertos" Meets Fast Food America
In the world of fast food art, there are Spanish-speaking Chihuahuas, bespectacled southern gentlemen, and hamburger-dealing clowns. Now, there’s a new and unlikely emblem of American gastronomy: a skeleton.
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Required Reading
This week, net neutrality is threatened, authenticating a Rothko, 3D printing homes, how hip-hop failed Black America, Shakespeare's dictionary, probing "Stealing Banksy," and more.
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Weekend Words: Action
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court took the country another step further to the right with its affirmation of Michigan's state constitutional amendment banning race-based affirmative action at its public universities, a move eerily foretold by one of our more progressive ex-presidents.