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This week, the rise of philanthrocaptialism, race debt in the US, how images fade in the media, Pantone's colors of the year, the Art Preservation Index, and more.
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Weekend Words: Climate
This week is Climate Change Week.
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A London Gallery Threw Me Out Over a Picasso
LONDON — In case you were in any doubt as to the true source of authority in the art world today, we now have an answer.
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This week, serious landscape painting, profiling the Met's Sheena Wagstaff, living in a Frank Lloyd Wright home, the first thing ever purchased on the internet, and more.
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Weekend Words: Train
Today is the 100th birthday of Billy (“Take the A Train”) Strayhorn.
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This week, the Statue of Liberty's Muslim origins, Martin Wong in the Bronx, CNN's objectivity lie, Jackson Pollock's prints and drawings, antiquities on eBay, why audio doesn't go viral, and more.
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Weekend Words: Property
This week the Brooklyn Museum played host to the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit despite criticism from anti-gentrification activists.
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An Open Letter to Frank Stella on the Occasion of His Whitney Retrospective
Dear Frank Stella, Your object-paintings choke me.
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This week, Paris > Beirut, Goya's portraits, robber barons and looting, street art and gentrification, and more.
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Weekend Words: Stab
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended himself this week against charges from the media that he did not try to stab another teenager in his youth.
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Move Over, Modigliani: Some Slightly More Altruistic Ways to Spend $170.4 Million
On Monday, Amadeo Modigliani's "Nu couché" (Reclining Nude), a 1917 painting of a woman sprawled naked on red bedding, fetched $170.4 million at Christie's.
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This week, glorious space photos, Ben Carson's Jesus kitsch, rich people trying to get a tax write-off, the Whitney Museum's original sin, Jeff Wall's insecurities, and more.