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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.
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Weekend Words: Blue
The Guardian reported this week that Queen Elizabeth appeared “unimpressed by a painting given to her by the German president, Joachim Gauck.”
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Celebrating Marriage Equality in the US with Tom of Finland
Today the United States Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage — henceforth known simply as "marriage" — is protected by the Constitution.
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What Should Be Done with the US's Many Confederate Monuments?
Yesterday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol.
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Required Reading
This week, Malevich's "Black Square," paying comic artists, sexism in club culture, Egyptian photo archive goes Creative Commons, Irish slaves, encyclopedia of pasta, and more.
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Weekend Words: Change
Last week, the world lost Ornette Coleman, whose 1959 releases The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century marked the advent of free jazz and changed the face of music forever.
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Rethinking American Indian Influence on Bushwick Art
My recent article on Bushwick Open Studios for Hyperallergic tried to discuss the influence of American Indian spirituality on the new age symbolism that I saw in many art works. However, the article didn't capture this fraught process of appropriation and commodification well enough.