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Weekend Words: Hell
"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
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A Brief History of Kanye West’s Art Commentary on Twitter
This morning, School of the Art Institute of Chicago honorary degree holder Kanye West proclaimed on Twitter: "My tweets are a form of contemporary art only compromised by people trying to tell me what to tweet and not to tweet..."
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Required Reading
This week, the oldest photo of New York, galleries and museums and money, troubles at the Picasso estate, first dates for conceptual artists, and more.
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Weekend Words: Go
"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."
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Required Reading
This week, Eli Broad and LA charter schools, Calatrava's new Manhattan boondoggle, selfie politics, Umberto Eco and Donald Trump, and more.
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Weekend Words: Ruin
"A man is a god in ruins."
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Required Reading
This week, the whiteness of power in the US, Minnesota's racist State Capitol paintings, black women and the Oscars, poet Eileen Myles defends Hillary Clinton, does eastern Congo need an art gallery, and more.
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Weekend Words: Vacant
"Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
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Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home, Dropping it at the Corner of Appropriation and Ruin Porn
DETROIT — You can’t really talk about expatriate American artist Ryan Mendoza's “The White House” project without talking about appropriation.
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The Meh-tropolitan Museum of Art's Rebranding
It looks like THE MET has made a really unfortunate mistake not only on the logo, but on the entire surrounding brand system.
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Required Reading
This week, Paul Allen's art collection, Robert Caro talks, copyediting Donald Trump, critics of color in February, and more.
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Weekend Words: Scale
"No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water."