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Required Reading
This week, an unexpected art forger, tintypes return to war, a phallus museum, frontline at an Egyptian protest rally, KKK in photos, the relationship of comics and poetry, and much more.
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Weekend Words: Betrayal
The arts are never far from reach, even at the scuzziest of murder trials.
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Guaranteed to Make You Smile: Emoji Art History 2.0
Thanks to Annie Werner at Tumblr, who has pointed out that Emoji Art History has gone to the next level.
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Photos About Mental Health
Maybe there's something to Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" song: summer can sometimes be an intense, heavy season, so perhaps that is why two recent articles have been dipping their toes into the pool of complex emotion that is contemporary life.
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What Happens When Literature Enters the Public Domain?
"Work that fails to enter a canon — literary, historical, or otherwise — tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard."
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Why Fewer Arts Reviews Might Not Be So Bad
A few weeks ago, the news broke that British newspaper the Independent on Sunday was cutting its cultural critics. Not just visual art, mind you: theater, music, TV, etc. The paper would lose all of its professional critics, and the arts section, until then called "The Critics," would be renamed. Th
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Another Day, Another Dubious Mona Lisa Discovery
Professional art history charlatan Silvano Vinceti has narrowed down his quest for the Mona Lisa's definitely real body to one of three skeletons exhumed from Florence's Santissima Annunziata basilica, all of which are currently being tested at the University of Bologna, the Guardian reports. The jo
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Required Reading
This week, a chilling performance in Shanghai, the sale of the Washington Post, history of London coffeehouses, privacy and art, TED Talk as propaganda, and more.
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Weekend Words: Sound
Yesterday, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, opened Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the museum's first major exhibition of sound art. But will it answer the question, "If a piece of art falls in the forest and no one hears it, is it still art?"
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Miami Police Kill 18-Year-Old Street Artist
Israel Hernández-Llach of Miami was tagging a shuttered McDonalds in Miami Beach when he was approached by police and fled. It's unclear exactly how the situation unfolded from there, but Hernández-Llach was soon dead, the result of a police tazering. The officers claimed that they shocked their vic
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Styling Booty: Race, Class, and Divas
CHICAGO — The exploitative fashion shoot OFFICIAL GLAM GIRL for DIS Magazine is yet another disappointing instance of black womens' bodies as objects of an unsmiling capitalism, an order ruled smirkingly by a white woman performing a blinged out, pimp-like gender.
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Lady Gaga Doing the Marina Abramović Method Is Satire, Right?
Lady Gaga has long been desperate for art world attention. Now, she's collaborating with the artists who has long been desperate for pop culture cred, Marina Abramović.