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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.
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Required Reading
This week, history of barbecue, Damien Hirst's mid-life crisis, conceptual poetry's bigotry, the ISIS dildo flag, a crow rides a bald eagle, the first 3D-printed office, and more.
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Weekend Words: Bank
"The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks." —Valerie Solanis
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Saluting Robin Williams as the American Flag
In the 1982 television special "I Love Liberty," Robin Williams channels the voice of the American flag.
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Will the Real Stephen Colbert Please Stand Up?
In preparation for his debut on CBS’s The Late Show in September, Stephen Colbert kept his hosting skills sharp by serving as guest host on Monroe, Michigan’s public access talk show Only in Monroe.
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Trigger Warning: This Post Contains Several Trigger Warnings
Culture in the 21st century is a minefield of trigger warnings, a nebulous type of cautionary note that is deployed as a way to warn people about the content they're about to encounter.
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Required Reading
This week, USC's embattled dean speaks, famous artists review books, defending gallery assistants, and more.