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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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Required Reading
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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Required Reading
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.
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Weekend Words: Secret
Spectre, the 24th film in the "seemingly unkillable" (in the words of Manohla Dargis) James Bond franchise, opened this weekend, furthering the adventures of the most famous secret agent of them all.
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Required Reading
This week, the origins of color, what art museums today should look like, a guide to feminist cybersecurity, a tax safe haven for selfish art collectors, emoticons as court evidence, and more.
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Weekend Words: Two
“Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent,” writes Chris Buckley in The New York Times, “the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old ‘one child’ policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children.”
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Cindy Sherman in Blackface
Here we go again. #Myhsa (aka @E_SCRAAATCH) has called attention to artist Cindy Sherman’s blackface performance in some rarely seen works from 1976 by using the tag #cindygate.
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Required Reading
This week, nonbinary people and transgender visibility, democratic architecture, Amazon is suing reviewers, the earliest use of the ellipsis symbol in English, and more.
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Weekend Words: Run
Paul Ryan says he will (for Speaker of the House); Joe Biden says he won’t (for President).