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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.
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Live Girls Looking for Fun
LOS ANGELES — Shopping is a mundane, ecstatic experience. Enter any mall that’s filled with sparkly goods and products and suddenly we feel like ourselves but amplified.
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Why Do Short Messaging Platforms Matter?
SAN FRANCISCO — The day before the WhatsApp acquisition was announced, I was just using the app. It's one of many mobile messaging platforms I use, along with Viber, Line, and WeChat. I used WhatsApp to chat with friends as far away and diverse as Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Western Europe, and
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Counting the Women Online and in Print
If you are a woman writer who uses the internet, there's a good chance you spent at least some portion of yesterday looking at (or bookmarking for later) the new VIDA count. For those unfamiliar with it, the VIDA count is an annual tally of the gender gap at literary publications.
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Required Reading
This week, reinterpreting the Parthenon, Wall Streeters behaving badly, considering Hannah Höch, academic writing, remaking Robocop, modern day slavery, and more.
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Weekend Words: Merge
The Great Merge: after last week's news that Comcast intends to swallow Time Warner Cable, the Corcoran Gallery of Art announced that it will be subsumed by the National Gallery, and Facebook is throwing $16 billion at WhatsApp, an ad-free messaging service that charges subscribers $1 per year.
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Pussy Riot Release New Video with Yesterday's Whipping Incident
In today's high-paced media environment, yesterday's footage of Russian security officials in traditional Cossack headgear whipping members of Pussy Riot (below) has already made it into the activist group's latest video, "Putin Will Teach You How to Love."
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People Lose Their Minds Over Obama's Art History Apology
US President Obama's apology to University of Texas at Austin art history professor Ann Collins Johns has created a frenzy of media coverage but also some inexplicably strange responses.
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Marco Rubio Slams Obama's Art History Apology
There comes a time when an American politician has to stand not for what's popular, but what's Right, what's True.