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This week, identity art, the impact of AIDS on art, color palettes of masterpieces, artist responsibility, Afro-pessimism, journalism problems, the Prince font, and more.
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Weekend Words: Gold
"In the gloom, the gold gathers light against it."
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This week, the attention web, Art Institute of Chicago's rehanging, Superman's Jewishness, Libeskind in Kurdistan, defining neoliberalism, and more.
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Weekend Words: Fraud
"Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent."
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Gogh Big or Gogh Home: A Definitive Ranking of van Gogh Art Tributes
In mid-April, Berlin art duo Elmgreen and Dragset will erect a 4.5-ton vaguely ear-shaped swimming pool outside Rockefeller Center. Titled “Van Gogh’s Ear,” the absurd public sculpture is only the latest example of the van Gogh-mania sweeping the art world.
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This week, the brilliance of Gordon Parks, sculptor wasps, tourists and archeological sites, Bridget Riley on her art, bad art, and more.
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Weekend Words: Wax
"Being kissed by a man who didn’t wax his mustache was — like eating an egg without salt."
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This week, archeology politics, critical thinking and painting, futurist terms, #terroristselfie, how people spend time online, and more.
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Weekend Words: Melt
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand and there you are.
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This week, the obit of Jesus, white male pathology, Giorgione, Thelma Golden, RuPaul, crowdsourcing a name, and more.
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Weekend Words: More
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
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This week, the failure of OWS, Instagram's impact on photography, the dominant aesthetic of the last decade, populist art from the Syrian civil war, Emily Dickinson as radical, and more.