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Required Reading

This week, Banksy hates the new Freedom Tower, North Korean visions of China, Turkey's ban on the letter "q" is over, Byzantine in DC, a black art show that marginalizes black artists, and more.

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Weekend Words: Dangerous

This week, danger!

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Everything Old Is New Again: GIFs Edition

Wow, digital art man, it's so fresh, like short moving pictures in the Graphics Interchange Format and cyber-self-portraits and the printer that will make a flimsy thing out of plastic just like that.

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How David Byrne Misread the Creatives of Our Time

When I read David Byrne’s recent Creative Time piece on how the 1% dominates the world, or strictly speaking, the art world, and more specifically, New York — the city we live in — it made me collect my experiences, thoughts, hopes, and projections and put them into a script.

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Banksy's Growing NYPD Problem [UPDATE 2]

Today's announcement on Banksy.co.uk points to a larger obstacle that Banksy will be facing going forward with his New York residency, the New York Police Department's draconian anti-graffiti policies.

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Paper Orchard: GIFs Through Collage

Hilary Faye, a Melbourne-based animator and artist, has been making a series of GIFs pulled from materials she's found online and animated through collage.

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Required Reading

This week, artists and gentrification, Sandy's art show backlash, Gitmo's artist/reporter, the war on immigration, brutalism at colleges, genius/tyrant/collector J. Pierpont Morgan, and more.

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Weekend Words: Fault

“Here we are. Here we are. We predicted it. Nobody wanted it to be this way.” said Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, assessing who's at fault for flirting with default.

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Angst and Comics: Daniel Clowes in Chicago

CHICAGO — Daniel Clowes's work is the subject of Modern Cartoonist, a show originally designed for the Oakland Museum of California but recently traveled to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art and will be showing at the Wexner Art Center in Ohio next year.

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Detroit Sports Profit as DIA Collection Considered for Collateral

As the Detroit Institue of Arts (DIA) continues its long slide to Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's butcher block, several issues have come to light regarding the fate of its artwork and the financial context of the Detroit bankruptcy.

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Where Can Google Street View Take You?

SAN FRANCISCO — Google Street View, as anyone who's had to visit a new place has acknowledged, is eminently useful.

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Banksy's Clichéd 9/11 Tribute [UPDATE 4]

Really, Banksy? Today's street art work, reportedly in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, depicts the Twin Towers but in place of an explosion the artist has placed a what looks like an altered flower.