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My Gold-Surfaced Cappuccino
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Silence is gold.
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Man Breaks Statue in Quest for Selfie
It's one thing for people to take selfies with works of art; it's another to climb on the art in order to get a photo and break it in the process.
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What's So Fundamental About Rem Koolhaas's Architecture Biennale
When the 14th la Biennale di Venezia International Architecture Exhibition announced that it had (finally) roped in world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas as the director of the Architecture Sector to lead its ranks, the speculative — often skeptical — architecture crowd wore its mixed emotions on it
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Unpaid Work Alert: Performa Seeks Writers [UPDATED]
Yesterday over email, Performa publicized a call they'd announced a few weeks earlier, seeking writers-in-residence for 2014. The catch? The positions are unpaid.
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A New Law Could Protect Art Historians. What About Journalists?
There are moments when the discourse on art seems incredibly undemocratic — say, for example, when a historian or authenticator gets sued because a collector doesn’t like his or her analysis of a work.
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Required Reading
This week, the web turned 25, the art world is infatuated with a new person, photographers in Hungary are concerned, Sylvain Chomet does The Simpsons, writing tips, the economics of the sex trade, and more.
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Weekend Words: Wage
The only bright spot in the news this week was President Obama's executive action on Thursday, ordering the U.S. Department of Labor to revise federal rules on overtime wages, qualifying millions of Americans to receive extra pay if they work more than 40 hours a week.
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Is That an Instagram Slide Projector in Your Pocket?
It's hard not to be enamored with Projecteo, a mini-projector for your Instagram photos.
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What's Good for the Art Market Is Bad for the Economy
One of the art world's neatest neoliberal parlor tricks is transforming the real world's troubles into pleasingly hermetic objects for hobbyists, and in this respect the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)'s ebullient annual economic report is a fine specimen.
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Puke Art: First Time Comedy, Second Time … Gross?
Lady Gaga seems intent on regurgitating recent art history for something that might make a splash.
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MoMA Hires Consulting Curator for Black Art
The appointment raises questions about the way museums treat black artists and their work, which in turn expose the complications of turning a race into an artistic category.
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Dear Elmgreen and Dragset: How About a Sense of Humor?
“Personal vanity” — really? That’s the argument you want to make?