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New Yorker Art Critic Justifies Looting of Detroit Museum
Would New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl suggest that Greece sell the Parthenon to pay its crippling national debt?
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When Street Art Goes Meta
This image, depicting the work of British street artist DS, was briefly on the front page of Reddit earlier this afternoon, and it's tremendous.
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Things You Could Do Instead of Waiting in Line for the Rain Room
Sure, the Rain Room at the Museum of Modern Art sounds cool — but is it really worth waiting in line for 13 hours to see it? That's apparently what some people did this past weekend, says Gothamist, topping the previous high of 12 hours in London.
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How to Buy Your Way to the Front Page of the NY Times
In a sensational front page story, today's New York Times announces what the art world has long known: "Qatari Riches Are Buying Art World Influence." Yes, the Qataris — and other Gulf monarchs — are rapidly amassing a motherlode of contemporary art, and in the process likely driving up art prices w
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Gender Gap Remains Pervasive in Academia
Gender browser provides a "multiscale view of gender representation across multiple domains of scholarly publishing." The picture ain't pretty.
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Do We Still Need to Defend Outsider Art?
Apparently we do. From an art critic, of all people. In last week's Village Voice, critic Christian Viveros-Faune wrote what would have been a great review of the current Llyn Foulkes retrospective at the New Museum — if he hadn't started the piece with an inexplicable three-paragraph screed against
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Required Reading
This week, Žižek weighs in a global protest, Walker Evans at MoMA, political cartoons, Smithsonian's space problem, Faulkner sues Woody Allen, and more.
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Weekend Words: Name
In light of J.K. Rowling's undercover success, Weekend Words wonders, what's in a name?
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The Most New York Summer 2013 Photo Ever
Today the world changed. The cruelest man in the world, Dominique Ansel, the chef and owner of the bakery of the same name, tweeted a tantalizing photo of the all elusive Cronut™ being held up to the damp light inside of MoMA's Rain Room.
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The Art Market Is the Market Is the Market
Yesterday's critique of Allison Schrager's art market takedown in Quartz was about something that is ultimately quite simple: certain fictions about the exceptional irrationality or corruption of the art market are sustained for various reasons — from marginalized artists who would sooner believe th
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Now Accepting Materials Toward a Theory of the Adult-Man
We turn our gazes toward men and masculinity, and suddenly everyone feels safe again. Consider The New Inquiry's Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child, a response to the ongoing conversations around Preliminary Materials for Theory of the Young-Girl, which uses the body of the young-gir
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10 Facts You May Not Know About Artemisia Gentileschi
Susan Vreeland’s novel The Passion of Artemisia, a work of historical fiction, inspired this list of facts about one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era.