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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."
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Required Reading
This week, MoMA's museum guard dog, Damien Hirst does Queen Elizabeth II, Philadelphia's hidden graff corridor, a profile of Daniel Clowes, Pee-Wee Herman talks about his art influences, and more.
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Weekend Words: Six
After deftly taking out Marco Rubio in the New Hampshire debate, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was rewarded with sixth place in the nation’s first primary vote and exited the presidential arena “without an ounce of regret.”
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Follow-Up to My Review: Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?
Very soon after my review of Louis Draper was published in Hyperallergic Weekend (February 7, 2016), I got an email from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and from the Museum of Modern Art.
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The Myth of Beyoncé and Pop Cultural Liberation
The argument is that Beyoncé’s “Formation” is complexity masquerading as simplicity. But it’s also simplicity pretending to be more complicated.
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In Cindy Sherman’s Street Style Satire, the Joke’s on Her
Chameleonic photographer Cindy Sherman is featured in March’s Harper’s Bazaar in a send-up of street style Instagrammers that makes both the artist and the magazine look out of date and tone deaf.
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In Defense of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement
Opposing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement takes away the only effective nonviolent leverage that Palestinian society currently has.