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Weekend Words: Winter (2014 Edition)
A year ago, Weekend Words gave winter its due. After the week we've had, a revisit seemed in order, this time an all-poetry tribute.
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Waxing and Waning with the Stars in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama stands fully formed in wax towards the exit of the entertaining, kitschy tourist trap that is the Hollywood Wax Museum. Celebrity gazing is a thoroughly American tradition.
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Against Celebrity, In Defense of New York
Moby and David Byrne are just wrong. New York may be many things to many people, but it is most certainly creative.
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Required Reading
This week, Super Bowl art bets, Carrie Mae Weems speaks, Central America's largest Mayan museum, Tibetan medical art, gay minimalism, writers and alcohol, and more.
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Weekend Words: Glass
This week came the announcement that Google has teamed up with the country’s largest vision-care company in a deal that will offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for Google Glass, a move that may hasten the popularity of wearable computers.
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Museum Digitizes Entire Nazi "Degenerate Art" Inventory
The Victoria and Albert Museum published a remarkable document online today: the Nazis' inventory of "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst).
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Demise of Landmark Hospitals Bodes Ill in Chicago
Few cities can rival Chicago for architectural masterpieces, but the past year hasn't been stellar for preservation. Destruction of the Brutalist Prentice Women's Hospital started in October, and last week a demolition permit was granted for the mid-century modern Cuneo Memorial Hospital.
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Using New Media to Shed Light on Old Art Narratives
The internet is a visual space, where virality comes most frequently to media rich in images, whether videos, animated GIFs or simple memes. Connecting these new forms of media with all the classic ways that human beings have told visual stories is a powerful way to reanimate them, sometimes literal
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What NOT to Do with Kids in a Museum
Bushwick gallerist Stephanie Theodore is at the Tate Modern today and spotted this hilarious/sad/incredible/unbelievable (so many mixed emotions) scene of parents allowing their child to use a Donald Judd sculpture as a bunk bed.
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Required Reading
This week, downtown performance insularity, best photographers in Asia, the value of arts education, charting the flight path of birds, a gay Russian response to Zhukova's racist chair photo, street style, and more.
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Weekend Words: Bridge
This week, big bridge news: the replacement for the Tappan Zee will begin construction by the end of the year, and the longest bridge in New York State will, at eight lanes, become one of the widest in the world.
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Seeing the Elderly Through Children's Eyes
What might children's drawings look like in an internet age? Photographer Yoni Lefévre's Grey Power series reimagines children's drawings as photos.