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Required Reading
This week, Banksy speaks, a Russian artist fools London dealers, art historians are scared to give opinions, street artists in Palestine, the Met's "primitive" heritage, a forgotten Lynda Benglis sculpture, and more.
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Weekend Words: Five
On October 5th, the Carnegie International — the biennial that's not a biennial but arrives every three to five years — opened in Pittsburgh after waiting the limit, five years after its last version in 2008.
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Auction Trolls
Yesterday's first digital art auction at Phillips may have just taken the crown for being the most memorable contemporary art auction for me since Damien Hirst's auction at Sothebys in London the day Lehman collapsed in 2008. I was there. It was wild. So was yesterday.
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Yup, That Was a Banksy [UPDATE 4]
Remember that find by Walking and Typing yesterday? Well, it turns out that was today's Banksy and it's parked in the Meatpacking District.
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The French Fight Back Against Amazon
France has passed a law meant to protect independent bookstores and stop the monolith of Amazon from taking over book sales in the country.
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A Trip Through Internet History with @wwwtxt
LA-based artist Daniel Rehn culls from internet messages posted between 1988 and 1994 and sends them out regularly on his Twitter account.
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Banksy's Beaver Fells Parking Sign in East New York [UPDATE 4]
As a Canadian, I'm rather happy to see a beaver in New York, particularly on a day when Canadian author Alice Munro is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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An Online Museum for Analogue Art Supplies
The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies is an online-only museum that celebrates the artistic relics of yesteryear.
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The Perils of Public Sculpture in Qatar
Statues: like many things that exist in the world, people sometimes have idiotic opinions about them. Mute and immobile, they are the helpless victims of sad little moralists of all stripes, from Kansas to Qatar.
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Want to Be an Artist? Try a Little Narcissism
A new study has found that narcissistic people are more likely to consider themselves creative and do creative things than their non-narcissistic counterparts. Um ... we needed a study to tell us that?
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Banksy's Busy Weekend NYC Projects: Diorama, Heart, Syrian War
At least one of Banksy's latest works reveals a more complicated take on the world.
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Required Reading
This week, Jeffrey Deitch talks street art and his future, architecture and design award winners, "average" women around the world, internet empires, Native American symbols, photography in museums, and more.