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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.

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Weekend Words: Wage

The only bright spot in the news this week was President Obama's executive action on Thursday, ordering the U.S. Department of Labor to revise federal rules on overtime wages, qualifying millions of Americans to receive extra pay if they work more than 40 hours a week.

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Is That an Instagram Slide Projector in Your Pocket?

It's hard not to be enamored with Projecteo, a mini-projector for your Instagram photos.

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What's Good for the Art Market Is Bad for the Economy

One of the art world's neatest neoliberal parlor tricks is transforming the real world's troubles into pleasingly hermetic objects for hobbyists, and in this respect the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)'s ebullient annual economic report is a fine specimen.

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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.