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Artists Gilbert & George Discuss Shit, Art, and Death
Today, I did a deep dive into YouTube and pulled out this undigested grain from a pile of … well, you get the picture.
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Method Man? Notes on Shigeru Ban's Pritzker Prize
Earlier today, the Pritzker Foundation named Shigeru Ban as its 2014 Laureate. Focusing on his work in disaster relief, the nine-person jury praised his interventions in places such as Rwanda, Haiti, India, China, Italy, and his home country of Japan — Ban is the third Japanese architect in the past
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Required Reading
This week, the Oxford comma debate, artists and being liked, science and bisexuality, longform on Twitter, best pizza in New York, and much much more.
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Weekend Words: Woo
On Thursday, the New York Times published a large pull-out section, Museums, which included an article on the attempts various institutions have made at "Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons."
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Government Noir, or When the Pentagon Meets Copyright Law
Over at Gawker, John Cook has posted a highly entertaining video commissioned by the Pentagon in 2001 to educate its staff on protocol for handling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
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How Wealthy Are Artists' Parents?
At Planet Money, Quoctrung Bui has compiled data to take a cursory look at the question: "What's the link between household income during childhood and job choice during adulthood?"
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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.