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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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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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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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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.
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CHICAGO — I cry, you cry, we fuck each others' feelings, we broke up, we got back together, and somehow it all ended up on Tumblr. What is crass and private is public and affective, considered just another aspect of affect, of gaining likes, retweets and reblogs through sharable, likable emotions.
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This week, more proof Joseph Beuys lied, more problems for Cooper Union, the world's biggest building in the world unveiled, Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial has more problems, Timbuktu's library assessed, and more.
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The news has been so grim this week that just about the only amusing thing that happened is Eliot Spitzer trying to steal Anthony Weiner's ticket for the Redemption Sweepstakes. Will somebody say "Amen"?
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In response to the firing this week by the Los Angeles Times of their only art reporter, Jori Finkel, over a dozen museum directors and 1,387 (and counting) petition signatories have confronted LAT editor Davan Maharaj in a two-pronged bid to reinstate the laid-off journalist.
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In what can be optimistically described as a case of something lost in cultural translation, Brazil's Outback Steakhouse franchise had their American-owned ad agency design an anthropomorphized chair that "hugs" you when you are wished a happy birthday via Facebook. Yes, This is The Way We Live Toda
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Last night, rumors started circulating about Jay-Z doing some kind of Rajnar-Kjartansson-meets-Marina Abramović performance art mashup, in which he would rap his new art-inspired song "Picasso Baby" at a rotating cast of hand-picked art-world individuals continuously for a few hours.
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Archaeologists in China have apparently unearthed 5,000-year-old hieroglyphs, a discovery with potentially significant implications for the study of the origins of written language, the Associated Press reported today.
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The Museum of the City of New York is planning an exhibition of photographs from Hurricane Sandy for the one-year anniversary of the storm. And importantly, the organizers aren't just interested in professional pictures; they want submissions from anyone and everyone with images to share.