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Required Reading
This week, profiting from antiquities, public parks for billionaires, net neutrality, deleting the internet, the ethics of selfies, McDonalds that won't decay, and more.
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Weekend Words: Disease
As cases of measles escalate, the New York Times reported this week that infectious diseases once believed to be “forever in the country’s rearview mirror” are now returning because ‘too many people are not getting their children vaccinated, out of a conviction that inoculations are risky.”
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Required Reading
This week, learning from Skymall's surrealism, Berlin's memorials, Orientalism in Montreal, BIG in DC, Renzo Piano in Paris, Japanese memes mocking ISIS, the influence of Joseph Beuys on Abramović, and more.
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Weekend Words: Predict
If you want to work out the kinks in predicting the weather, the Old Farmer's Almanac offers a number of folk remedies you can try.
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Stop Self-Censoring
It's been three weeks since two masked gunmen stormed into the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 11 people. In that time there's been self-censorship — quite a bit of it.
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A French Artist Demonstrates How Not to Handle Criticism
On January 17 a group of performers hired by a French artist smashed nearly half of the artworks in his new exhibition, then this happened.
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Required Reading
This week, artists and drones, archiving the web, Russian art manifestos, the lies of American Sniper, modern life, and more.
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Weekend Words: Sweat
On Tuesday, Hyperallergic's Benjamin Sutton reported that a civil court in Antwerp has convicted Luc Tuymans of copyright infringement for appropriating an image by photojournalist Katrijn Van Giel for his painting, “A Belgian Politician” (2011).
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Artists Confront the Uncomfortable Legacy of Lenin
This week, two men made headlines when they doused the tomb of the Soviet Union's first leader Vladimir Lenin with holy water while reportedly shouting "Rise up and leave!"
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Liveblogging 'The Artist as Debtor' Conference
We're at Cooper Union today to liveblog the 'The Artist as Debtor: A Conference about the Work of Artists in the Age of Speculative Capitalism' event.
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Luc Tuymans Case Illustrates the Failure of Europe's Copyright Laws
LONDON — Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, known for his paintings that rework existing photographic source material, has been found guilty of plagiarism in a European court for using a copyrighted photograph as the inspiration for an artwork.
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The #MuseumSelfie Scourge Is Upon Us
What have we done to deserve this? Today is a day that will forever be remembered as a plague on our social media feeds, a moment that ruptured our visual culture with a barrage of grainy images of people the world over visiting museums.