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Required Reading
This week, Iran in New York, the lack of illegal street art, racial boundaries, Jewish identity in videogames, Magritte as a neighbor, bad twerking, immigrant fiction, and more.
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Weekend Words: Vacation
Now that everyone is back at work, Weekend Words is going on vacation.
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Louvre Crowdfunds Major Conservation Effort
The Art Newspaper is reporting that the Louvre has launched a €1 million crowdfunding campaign to pay for the conservation of its "Winged Victory of Samothrace," a 2nd-century BCE sculpture of Nike.
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Remembering the Days When Artists Could Afford Manhattan
Yesterday, Curbed NY posted a nifty map of 15 buildings in Manhattan that were originally built for artists. Ranging from projects with outside funding to artists' cooperatives, the 15 structures mostly dot Midtown and the Upper East and West Sides, with a few outliers in the West Village. It's fun
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Finally, a Mobile Way to Explore Nollywood
Chew on this … the Nigerian film industry, aka "Nollywood," overtook Hollywood in 2009 in terms of the number of films produced, and it is outdone only by Bollywood.
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A Brief History of Popular Satire
In the most recent edition of The Economist, an article makes the claim that satire has, in recent decades, seen an unprecedented popularization. No longer the fief of haughty artists and writers, satire is now an everyman's gig, they say.
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Man Finds Thing and It Is All Worthwhile
The thing found by the man sat for many years piled amid the musty crenellations of his attic.
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Women Are Not Seeking Your Validation
Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's "Stop Telling Women to Smile" project is evolving.
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Required Reading
This week, Ann Freeman says she was a victim of the Knoedler fraud, opera in Beirut, the walk-in prison vagina in Johannesburg, the YouTube war, fashion's 3D printing moment, and more.
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Weekend Words: Wave
With Labor Day coming tomorrow, Weekend Words waves a regretful farewell to the last waves of summer.
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No Trespassing: The Art Museum You May Never See
Into the dead zone between the sputtering-out of summer shows and the ignition of the new season comes the story of Maurice and Paul Marciano, co-founders of the stonewashed blue jeans empire Guess, and the private art museum they are founding in Los Angeles. It is a private museum not only because
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The Wonderful World of Women in Slacks
CHICAGO — Jill Peters' photo series Sworn Virgins of Albania went viral last week. For the fascinating and honest portrayal of women who live their lives as men, the artist visited the mountain villages of northern Albania where she shot burneshas, or "women who have lived their lives as men for rea