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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.
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Your Graffiti "Looks Like Shit," a Historic Letter to Alicia McCarthy
The artists of the so-called Mission School, that indie-inspired band of DIY artists centered around the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) in the 1990s, are getting their moment in the New York sun with Grey Art Gallery's Energy That Is All Around exhibition.
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Required Reading
This week, photography's bias towards dark skin, the world's tallest building rises, the earliest emoticon, Zorthian Ranch, Noah's lack of black people, a novella based on Edward Hopper, the paintings of Bob Ross by the stats, and more.
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Weekend Words: Water
On Thursday, the Guardian reported that officials in Portland, Oregon, plan to flush millions of gallons of drinking water "for the second time in less than three years because someone urinated into a city reservoir."
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No Mag Is an Island
In the latest issue of Cluster Mag, a "magazine of international popular culture," writer Jesse Myerson places the asset-stripping drama surrounding Detroit's bankruptcy against a broader historical context, one that dates to the 13th-century failure of Constantinople.
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A Compendium of Comic Maps
The best fiction often succeeds because its creator has constructed a convincing world. By that I don't mean a place that seems realistic, but rather a world that's believable because it's been thought through — pages of notes, characters described down to their beauty marks, the relationships betwe