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Why the ‘Playboy' Nude Is Passé in the Digital Age
Last week, Playboy announced it will forgo naked ladies on its pages come March 2016.
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“What Do You Have in Lavender Blush?" A New Tool to Buy Art by Color
Collectors choose to buy art based on their interest in the work itself, not whether it matches the color of their living room drapes, right?
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Did Drake's New Video Get Its Bling from James Turrell's Light Installations? [UPDATED]
The internet almost exploded last night when Drake dropped the music video for his track, "Hotline Bling."
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Required Reading
This week, the secret drone war, guerrilla action in the British Museum, the unseen Michael Graves prototype in Brooklyn, the dark ages of the internet, removing tipping from restaurants, and more.
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Weekend Words: Hush
Lest we forget scandals of Speakers past, this week Reuters reported that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert “has reached a deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to wrongdoing in a hush-money case, his lawyers told a federal judge in Chicago.”
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How We Decide What the Best Galleries Are
What makes a fine art gallery in New York City great is somewhat unsurprisingly not a matter of intense public debate.
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Required Reading
This week, thoughts on art school, Syrian refugees take over a Danish newspaper, the problems with the American Dream, the future of reading, and more.
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Weekend Words: Voice
In a switch, the Nobel Committee, citing her "polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” awarded its literature prize to the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, best known for her 1999 nonfiction book Voices from Chernobyl.
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Required Reading
This week, gallerist Marian Goodman speaks, why "bad boy" female artists are ignored, problems with architecture in Chicago, Brian Eno on the ecology of culture, the object that came alive at the British Museum, and more.
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Weekend Words: Body
As Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-California) plots his strategy for winning the leadership of his body of Congress, it is worth recalling that he shares his name with the star of the 1956 sci-fi classic, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Marion True Does Not Deserve Our Sympathy
Marion True, former curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, made headlines recently by giving her first interview since 2007.
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The Surreal Beauty of Feedlots by Satellite
Quarantined into rectangles, tiny dots litter the landscape.