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Why I Don't Buy the Premise of Christoph Büchel's Icelandic Mosque Pavilion
I've been hesitant to embrace Christoph Büchel's project for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale from the beginning.
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Why a White Poet Should Not Be Attempting to Reclaim the "N-Word"
Both literature and visual art share a common concern: they continue to grapple with questions of inclusion and diversity, and in many ways have done a poor job of righting the long-standing wrongs of white men who have dominated the landscape since forever.
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Sunday Night's 'Game of Thrones' Episode Doesn't Endorse Rape
I think that there is ample justification for the disturbing scene in “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.”
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Do Academic Articles Need Wide Audiences?
The cultural push towards artifacts with obvious, immediate utility is symptomatic of a culture that fails to place sufficient value on humanistic or artistic pursuits, many of which don’t have tangible or quantifiable benefits.
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Required Reading
This week, Picasso and global inequality, mistaking art for a garbage can, Twitter's abuse problem, gayness vs. homosexuality, and more.
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Weekend Words: Nails
As reported this week in the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered emergency measures to address wage theft and health hazards faced by the thousands of people who work in New York State’s nail salon industry
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What Else Could $180 Million Buy?
The record price paid for Pablo Picasso’s “‘Les femmes d’Alger (Version 'O')" (1955) made us wonder what else could $180M buy?
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Rebuilding Demolished Penn Station Isn't New York's Redemption
When the soaring ceilings and Doric columns of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station started to fall under the wrecking ball in 1963, architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable called it a "monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman e
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Required Reading
This week, sex in museums, too many Picassos, Grayson Perry's Taj Mahal, inmates designing prisons, Kim Kardashian selfie analysis, and more.
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Weekend Words: Mother
Happy Mother's Day.
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Topless Femen Protesters “Salute” Marine Le Pen for Her Fascist Politics
PARIS — Most Parisians seem to have overlooked the radical, anti-fascist, irony-soaked, “top-down” demonstration by the international women’s movement Femen that took place on May 1.
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Why an Amateur Photographer's Inside View of the #BaltimoreUprising Went Mainstream
The first images coming out of the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore last week were photographs by local professionals and amateurs, distributed across social media.