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A Response to the 'Charlie Hebdo' Attack, from an Arab, Artist, and Frenchman
I was sitting in my office on Wednesday morning when I learned with surprise, stupor, and fear of the horror of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
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The Broad Museum Is Unveiled and It Looks Like a …
LOS ANGELES — When the designs for the Broad Museum were originally announced four years ago, the reaction was generally positive. Now, they're more mixed.
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The Limits of What We Can Learn from Food-Themed Art
Food, broadly defined, is a necessary sustenance that may also incorporate artistic practice — cooking, cuisine, and presentation.
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Stefan Simchowitz Isn't as Controversial as He'd Like You to Believe
Stefan Simchowitz has a talent for making himself the center of conversation. That talent was on full view over the past week, since the New York Times released its Sunday magazine profile of the art collector/dealer.
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Required Reading
This week, photographing the oldest trees on earth, considering Cuban freedom, gay tours of the Vatican, the art world's patron "Satan," death of the artist (again), making the internet more global, autotuning John Cage, and more.
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Weekend Words: Fifteen
All best wishes for 2015.
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When Life REALLY Imitates Art
The art world did it first.
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Required Reading
This week, New York's creative soul, social media sell-out, KFC in Japan, bad architecture, dressing the same around the world, web 3.0, and more.
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Weekend Words: Play
A scientist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has strung together nearly 200 PlayStation 3 video game consoles to create a low-cost supercomputer, the perfect thing to simulate two black holes slamming into each other.
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Will Galapagos's Move to Detroit Be a Blessing or a Curse?
I grew up in the Metro Detroit area as a dancer and performer who, inevitably it seems, ended up in Brooklyn a few days after graduating college. Is it time to turn around?
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Performance and Para-Fiction: Jennifer Kidwell on Playing Donelle Woolford
Donelle Woolford, the fictitious artist whose work has become a collaboration between Joe Scanlan, Abigail Ramsay, and me, has done an extraordinary thing. Her existence exhorts the public to rally and come to her defense, but has simultaneously exposed its inability to do so.
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Architecture Blogger Uses Terrible Rape Metaphor
You might think, in the year 2014, that the distastefulness of casual rape metaphors would be obvious. But you'd be wrong! In a blog post published today on the website Arch2o, Ivan Sergejev shares 20 "tips" for being a successful architect, based on his experience interning at the Office for Metrop