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Weekend Words: Brink
This week, after years of wrangling, threats and doomsaying, we've received an actual date — October 17th — when the U.S. will run out of cash. Two and a half weeks and then, the brink.
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High Profile Exits Raise Questions About Indianapolis Museum
The new director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art's short tenure has been marked by a spate of departures.
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Knowing Where Your Gadgets Come From
OAKLAND, Calif. — As I type out this post, I am ever more aware of those who piece together the keyboard, circuits and processors that brought this computer to life.
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Art Museum Promo Video That Gets It (Mostly) Right
European museums have been slower than North American institutions to adopt a digital forward way of doing things, but the Musée d'Orsay's recent video promotion for their latest show, Masculine / Masculine, is on the cutting edge of the digital wave.
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From Weird Twitter to Mundane Conceptualism: The @Horse_ebooks Story
Horse_ebooks, that paragon of Twitter non sequitur humor, has turned out to be the "conceptual art" handiwork of Jacob Bakkila, a Buzzfeed "creative strategist," and Thomas Bender.
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Required Reading
This week, New Yorker gets snarky, guns at MoMA, new Banksy, digitizing drawings, a literary classic is banned in North Carolina, and more
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An Incredible Archive of American Folk Music
"If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll … ”
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Questions We Wish More Curators Answered During #AskaCurator Day
Here are some of our favorite English-language tweets, which range from the very important and serious to the downright hilarious …
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Why Did You Go to Art School?
With college tuition costs in the US rising faster than inflation, the decision to go to art school is increasingly fraught. How do you know if the ends will justify the means? Is it worth it only if you have a scholarship? Why go to art school? That last question is the basis for a tumblelog called
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America's Newest Creative Class: Asian Americans
OAKLAND, Calif. — Asian Americans occupy 6.1 percent of creative jobs in this country, which is nearly half of the Asian-American population.
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A Look at Detroit's $2.1 Million Knight Arts Grant Projects
OAKLAND, Calif. — Amidst news of its filing for bankruptcy, Detroit is becoming ingrained in the popular imagination as a city fallen from grace. That it's also a rapidly emerging art and technology hub is lesser known.
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Required Reading
This week, Istanbul Biennial loses its edge, Prada Marfa is an ad, science of snobbery, a better GIF, Code Pink's photo bombs, Congress's new media law, making fun of fashion week, and more.