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This week, goodbye, Gawker, Zombie Urbanism, Olympic medals for art, criticizing McMansions, and more.
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Weekend Words: Evaporate
"If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet."
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Marina Abramović Writes Disparagingly About Aboriginal Australians #TheRacistIsPresent
Where to begin with such a passage? Do we criticize the comparison of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia with dinosaurs? The callous description of a community that doesn't fit the "Western" beauty aesthetic?
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Required Reading
This week, why we need art, art students today, office design in Tokyo, meth in North Korea, a 17th-century Turkish travel writer, writing the other, and more.
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Weekend Words: Withdraw
"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."
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Why Composers Make Music to Drive Us Insane
That artists have a tendency to be strange is not surprising. However, Erik Satie, who was a groundbreaking composer that lay the foundation for minimalism in 20th-century classical music, really waved his freak flag high.
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Vanessa Beecroft Publicly Airs a Racist Perspective
One can only imagine the patience and tolerance required of New York Magazine writer Amy Larocca to spend time with Vanessa Beecroft and listen to the utter absurdity spewing from the artist’s mouth.
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Art Not Oil Coalition Issues Statement on BP’s Sponsorship of UK Cultural Institutions
We received the following statement from the Art Not Oil coalition regarding the new BP sponsorships of major cultural institutions in the UK.
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Required Reading
This week, minimalism and class pollitics, art and drugs, hackers extort web users, Zumthor redesign for LACMA revealed, and more.
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Weekend Words: Heart
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."
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How to Tell the Difference Between Propaganda and Art
At a round-table discussion at Smack Mellon gallery, convened on July 27 by Hyperallergic and the gallery, the issue of the distinction between propaganda and art was in focus.
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Required Reading
This week, art in shadow banking, the impact of focal length, oppressive minimalism, slave labor at the White House, Werner Herzog on Pokémon Go, and more.