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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?
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Report Touts Strength of Corporate Creative Class in Los Angeles
Economics rarely motivate people to go into the arts, and that's fine — what isn't fine are smoke-and-mirror attempts at falsely touting fiscal health of "the arts" under the guise of rigorous economic research.
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The Art of Nonfiction with Damien Hirst
Who says you actually have to remember your life to write about it? Damien Hirst has announced he is publishing his autobiography, despite the fact friends say the enfant terrible of enfants terribles (the Young British Artists) can’t remember a 10-year period that began in his 20s, according to the
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Required Reading
This week, the state of artist studios, doxxing mania, startup slavery, Zwirner talks to Charlie Rose, fetishizing slums, where people read most, best graffiti of the week, and more.
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Weekend Words: Exit
This week marked the opening of the last Whitney Biennial before the museum exits its historic Marcel Breuer building, as well as the last Brucennial, courtesy of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, before it exits the scene for good.
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Surreal Puppets Retell the Jabberwocky
SAN FRANCISCO — At San Francisco's annual Dickens Fair, I learned about the work of Darren Way, whose Dangerous Puppets creations feature fanciful characters and bizarre imagery bordering on the fantastical and grotesque.
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Required Reading
This week, tensions in Ukraine mount, responsibility of architects, aestheticizing politics, Spike Lee's gentrification rant, Ai Weiwei on the internet's influence on his work, and much more.
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Weekend Words: Revive
Today's New York Times Magazine brings news from the forefront of the de-extinction movement, which hopes to use genome-editing technology to revive lost species, including "an Australian frog, extinct for 30 years, that gave birth through its mouth."
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'Portlandia' Lampoons Anti-Corporate Student Art
Ronald McDonald + Something Violent and Crazy (Like Money) = SHOCK
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George W. Bush's Aristocratic "Art"
Presidents have painted before, but that doesn't make this denunciation any less earned. Bush's diplomacy was bloody, criminal, and disastrous; his "personal diplomacy" is of the same murderous hand.