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Weekend Words: Competition
There was much talk of competition in the news this week, as tech companies poach each other's talent and workplace culture turns brutal inside Amazon and across the business landscape.
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Another Oblivious Artist Comes to Detroit, Accidentally Lets Tiger Loose
DETROIT — With the rise of Detroit as a sexy location for artistic spirits to be free from the confines of civilization, has come a backlash from everyday Detroiters, wondering what, exactly, is so blank about the city’s canvas.
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Required Reading
This week, the death of the US dance critic, Black Lives Matter at the Venice Biennale, James Baldwin's FBI file, "Happy Birthday"'s copyright shenanigans, and more.
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Weekend Words: Currency
China weakened its currency, the renminbi, several days in a row this week, raising fears that the country’s massive economy may be in deep trouble.
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Required Reading
This week, considering Hiroshima 70 years later, museums as publishers, the myth of a Brooklyn exodus, Ferguson's radical knitters, popular vape flavors, and more.
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Weekend Words: Box
In Hyperallergic this week, Allison Meier reported on a house (“the Hemnet House, or “House of Clicks,”) that was designed via 200 million clicks from 2 million visitors to a Swedish real estate website.
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The Problems with an Exclusive Club that Grants “Membership” to the Art World
A new, savvy strategy for marketing the modern and contemporary art scene has appeared.
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The Changing Façades of the Whitney Museum
New Yorkers caught a glimpse of a hidden, historic slice of the Whitney Museum last week when the original inscription of the institution surfaced for the first time in over 50 years.
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What’s in a Museum Rebranding?
On Monday, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts unveiled its rebranding.
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Michael Brown’s Google Earth Memorial
On August 4, Jessica Lussenhop (@Lussenpop) posted an image culled from Google Earth of the memorial for Michael Brown, the teenager shot to death by the former police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri last year.
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An Artist Poses Nude at Former Slave Sites
Recently the artist Nona Faustine kicked up some ruckus with her White Shoes photography series, which consists of images of the artist posing nude at former sites of slave trading in New York City.
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Required Reading
This week, 35 women tell their Bill Cosby stories, reflecting on memory in the internet age, how are performance artists paid, white privilege in Baltimore's music scene, and more.