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What People Mean When They Say "Painting Is Dead"
Last week, Sinead O’Connor recently declared that music has died. What do we mean when we say that something, as opposed to someone has died?
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The Art of Cady Noland as Poison Pill
Cady Noland has reportedly stirred up a kerfuffle around the sale of her work to a major collector.
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Required Reading
This week, Eid cards, a mysterious "Chicken Church," Cosby and Smithsonian, the best Dutch galleries in the US, an architect talks about the perfect sandcastle, and more.
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Weekend Words: Pope
Last Sunday, Pope Francis wound up his eight-day, three-country tour of Latin America —home to the world’s largest Catholic population — where he called unfettered capitalism “the dung of the devil.”
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Poll: Who Is the Bigger Baby, Artist Danh Vō or Collector Bert Kreuk?
This week the ongoing legal feud between the Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vō and the Dutch collector Bert Kreuk took another turn toward infantile name-calling.
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The Confused Thinking Behind the Kimono Protests at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently cancelled an event they had called “Kimono Wednesdays,” that, according to the museum, sought to engage people by arranging enhanced encounters with works of art.
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The Crime of Being an "Avant-Garde" Artist
When the news hit that experimental filmmaker Joe Gibbons was arrested for bank robbery in New York this past January, my first reaction was a gut one.
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What Will the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Expansion Achieve?
Given the Studio Museum’s unique position in the city’s arts and culture landscape, this rebuild, the first since the museum took up residence in its current space in 1982, seems to indeed be a cause to celebrate.
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Required Reading
This week, the myths of an affordable LA, a church made of trees, gay lit, US sanctions and Iranian artists, decolonizing African art, and more.
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Weekend Words: Down
This week: the Chinese stock market fell way down, the New York Stock Exchange computer systems went down for nearly four hours, and South Carolina took down the Confederate flag.
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An Artist's Farewell to a Self-Made New York Gallerist
Monya Rowe started her space not with a degree in curating or art history but by selling her eggs to a fertility clinic and through experience in gallery settings.
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Disney Does the Right Thing and Removes Bill Cosby Bust from Theme Park
Bill Cosby was once the United States' favorite funny man.