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Required Reading
This week, Daumier, Art Spiegelman, stolen art, José Clemente Orozco, Batkid, transgender poetry, Chinese censorship, and more.
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Weekend Words: Sell
This week, to keep a date at Christie's, a major painting skipped a major museum retrospective. That museum would be the Guggenheim, and the painting would be Christopher Wool's "Apocalypse Now" (1988): SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS. And sell it did.
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Sacklers Endow Sackler Center Sackler Family Curator
Everything Sackler changes, and everything Sackler stays the same.
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Seeking New Ways to Document and Share Culture
How can we document culture? Two recent articles shed light on different ways to document often unheard or at least less-heard voices and perspectives.
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An Artist's Plan to Get Everyone in Switzerland Paid
A radical plan is afoot in Switzerland. A public referendum is on the way, in which people will vote on the possibility of giving every citizen a fixed monthly income.
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The Comical Side of Science
OAKLAND, Calif. — Science is always painted as a subject diametrically opposed to art, but some of the best scientists have talked about their thinking process as one that's very creative in scope.
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Vanity Fair Names the "Six Greatest Living Artists"
In a bold example of art journalism, Vanity Fair has attempted to answer the question that's been burning a hole in everyone's brain for ages: Who are the six greatest living artists? If you haven't been wondering this, you clearly aren't reading enough Art Review.
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The Found Poetry of Google Autocomplete
Could our collective searches generate beauty? I, and presumably 60,000+ others, have been intrigued by Google Poetics, a Twitter account consisting of found poetry from Google search terms.
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Required Reading
This week, Banksy charity sale is a bust, art and the 1%, looking at Norman Rockwell, opera's future, creating contemplative spaces in video games, underwear that masks smells, and more.
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Weekend Words: Center
Can the Republican Party find a Savior from the Center?
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From 17th-Century Sketches to LA Street Art
If you've ever wondered what drives us to post and share in the first place, then the 17th-century practice of the liber amicorum, or book of friends, might have some answers.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Shills: Art Basel Preview Edition
If you aren't already quaking with anticipation for the latest installment of Art Basel Miami Beach, you obviously don't matter.