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This week, fonts can save money, trend piece bs, best press photos, Wu Tang Clan's art experiment, booksellers leaving Manhattan, and more.
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Weekend Words: Nose
As Jillian Steinhauer reported in Hyperallergic on Monday, "The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.”
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Emojis May Be Going Multiculti, but What About Art?
Here at Hyperallergic, we've discussed — and griped about — the limited menu of emoji on smartphones but now there's word that Apple may expand the usual emoji suspects with more racial diversity to reflect a more inclusive reality. But can I suggest a few others?
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An Artist's Narco-Namaste Yoga Mat
Nothing says yoga quite like a mat that looks like a $100 bill with a razor blade, broken mirror, and lines of cocaine on it.
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Every Advertising Cliché in One Video
Oh, generic, you are so meh … but what diversity of skin colors!
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United States Americans for the Arts: Alec Baldwin, Maureen Dowd Stand With You
On a stage in Washington last night, Alec Baldwin briefly un-retired from public life to introduce Maureen Dowd, who proceeded to deliver a lecture on "the arts" in "America." This grim scenario wasn't culled from an SNL bin; it was a real-live keynote commissioned by Americans for the Arts, the cro
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The Simpsons Discover the Art World
If real-life Jane Does and Joe Schmoes have been known to discover valuable paintings at flea markets, why not Marge and Homer Simpson?
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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.