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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.
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Four Lingering Questions from Last Night’s Metropolitan Museum Gala
The fashion world’s elite came out last night in what is likely one of the most important events in the industry, as well as a huge fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Required Reading
This week, Instagram's impact on art collecting, Chicago's missing Keith Haring, 50 buildings in 50 cities, privilege at art museums, the largest object in the universe, and more.
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Weekend Words: Left
On Thursday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for President, and will run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
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The Facebook Bug that Many Feared Was Censorship
The episode is a scary reminder of just how much we rely on Facebook and just how little control we have over it.
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What the Cult of Knausgaard Tells Us About Critical Bias
The privilege of writing about oneself — of passing one’s vanity off as profundity — is reserved almost exclusively for male authors.
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Six Authors Withdraw from PEN Gala in Protest of 'Charlie Hebdo' Honor
Celebrated writers Teju Cole, Rachel Kushner, Taiye Selasi, Peter Carey, Michael Ondaatje, and Francine Prose have withdrawn from this year’s annual PEN American Center gala, citing discomfort with the organization’s plan to honor French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
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Why Gender Equality in Literature Isn't as Simple as 50/50
For every attempt at exposing sexism, there’s an entitled man with a chip on his shoulder, mumbling to himself in a café in Bushwick that no one appreciates his genius.
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Required Reading
This week, a quadruple rainbow, genocide at 100, remaking Mackintosh, poetry inspired by visual art, the creator of the emoticon, the first anime, and more.
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Weekend Words: Piano
On Mayday, the new Whitney Museum, designed by Renzo Piano, opens to the public.