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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in March’s Harper’s Bazaar in a send-up of street style Instagrammers that makes both the artist and the magazine look out of date and tone deaf.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.
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Required Reading
This week, 100 jokes that shaped modern comedy, the information of critic Lawrence Alloway, critics of China are not safe, giant dancing bears on Twitter, and more.
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Weekend Words: Imbecile
This week, Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, invoked the Fifth Amendment before a House committee investigating the company's fiftyfold price increase of a decades-old drug.
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Uber's Redesigned "Identity System" Is a Mishmash of Bad Ideas
When you have to release a 2½-minute video to explain what your logo means, you have failed.
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Learning About the Figure from Picasso's Sculptures
Seeing the current retrospective of Picasso’s sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art reminded me of a graduate school experience, because as I wandered through the show I saw work that cleverly illustrated problems that sculptors would need to solve and questions they might have to answer in the cour
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Ai Weiwei’s Photo Reenacting a Child Refugee's Death Should Not Exist
I see this image and I wonder.
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"Looks Like an Old Turd”: Outraged Netizens React to Reported $1.8 Million Sale of Potato Photograph
You may have heard the news that a German businessman has reportedly purchased a photograph of a dirty potato for $1.8 million.