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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.
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Required Reading
This week, global warming and archaeology, Barbie's new looks, Christine Chubbuck's mysterious suicide footage, photos that got a photographer banned from North Korea, drone racing, and more.
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Weekend Words: Goose
Writing in The New York Times, James Poniewozik boils down Donald Trump's standoff with Fox News to a matter of eggs and geese.
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Saatchi Gallery Congratulates Itself on First All-Women Art Show
Charles Saatchi, head of the eponymous Saatchi Gallery in London, doesn't exactly have the best feminist track record.
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Required Reading
This week, artists & empire, the first flower in space, Hollywood's white problem, art in museum storage, MLK in Brooklyn, and more.
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Weekend Words: Drop
Look out! Oil prices and the world's financial markets continue to drop.
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How Beauty Can Help Us Empathize
This past weekend David Brooks, the conservative columnist at the New York Times left behind his contrarian punditry for a bit and tried his hand at writing on beauty.