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Weekend Words: Tip
"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
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Why We Need the Getty's Multicultural Internship Program
There's a saying: "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
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Required Reading
This week, the Pope in the Sistine Chapel, logo ripoffs, art's connection to OxyContin, Saudi Arabia's destruction of Yemeni cultural heritage, gender disparity in the art world, and more.
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Weekend Words: Space
"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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Required Reading
This week, the new SFMOMA, artist-gallery breakups, Obama and the Churchill bust, portraits out of data, Moscow's tacky art problem, and more.
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Weekend Words: Alliance
"Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
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Required Reading
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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Required Reading
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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Required Reading
This week, the brilliance of Gordon Parks, sculptor wasps, tourists and archeological sites, Bridget Riley on her art, bad art, and more.