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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.
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Leaving Comments for Propagandists
OAKLAND, Calif. — Part of what makes propaganda effective is the way it uses words that collectively sound like they mean something but ultimately signal very little.
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History Meets the Strangest Animated GIFs
We dare you not to be fascinated by the wacky and amazing animated GIFs of Kevin Weird.
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Hole-y Terror and Evolution
OAKLAND, Calif. — Many common phobias make intuitive sense. Fear of snakes, fear of spiders, fear of heights — it's easy to understand that these crippling phobias emerge from natural cautions we've inherited from millions of years of evolution.
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Reexamining Picasso's Politics
Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was a lifelong Communist. But, as it turns out, it was more complicated than that.
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Ask Me Anything: Reddit's (Very) Tentative Embrace by the Cultural Elite
Yesterday, The Paris Review did a Reddit AMA, which by now is a reliable station on the digital PR circuit.
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The Literal Floating World of Video Games in Ukiyo-E Art
OAKLAND, California — Ukiyo-e Heroes, a new series by American artists Jed Henry and Dave Bull, continues the ukiyo-e form with video game characters.