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Required Reading
This week, art rising to the challenge of our times, Instagram CEO's insane statement, then Jeffrey Deitch's insane statement, Hans Ulrich Obrist is profiled, Miami's museums, purpose of Art Basel Miami Beach, and more.
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Weekend Words: Tree
This week, The New York Times cheerfully reported on "the leafing of New York": the cityscape transformed by hundreds of thousands of trees planted over the past few decades.
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Blacked Out in the Art World
It’s not easy to be a black woman working in the arts. Not on days like today.
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Revisiting Rosa Parks's Arrest Documents
This past Monday, December 1, marked the 59th anniversary of Rosa Parks’s Montgomery arrest.
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#BlackLivesMatter vs #ArtBasel
MIAMI BEACH — Unsurprisingly, the best expression of the cognitive dissonance I'm once again feeling — living simultaneously in the real world and the art world, which feel so frustratingly far apart — comes in the form of a tweet.
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Required Reading
This week, Ferguson, David Hockney and the avant-garde, Francis Bacon's "missing" exhibition, art in a mall, Persian calligraphy, naked in a Yves Klein sculpture, the infamous 19th-century "Ape Woman," and more.
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Weekend Words: Climb
Recently, Cliff Bar announced the termination of its sponsorship of five professional rock climbers.
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Behold Nazi Postcards from the Infamous Degenerate Art Show
The Nazis, one supposes, fell into the usual trap: they expected everyone to see it their way, no added explanation or convincing necessary.
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Required Reading
This week, the super-rich ruining museums, how an essay saved a Renaissance masterpiece, writing as commodity, stealing from Jasper Johns, social media as self-expression, and more.
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Weekend Words: Crawl
On Thursday, amNewYork reported that the annual SantaCon charity bar crawl will not be heading for Bushwick this year.
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Darkskinned or Lightskinned? Crowdsourcing Blackness
Artist Nate Hill is always picking at cultural scabs. Whether it's drug addiction, violence, alienation, sexism, or race, he's poking his finger in wounds that solicit reactions by intentionally provoking his audience with deadpan directness.
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What Should the Smithsonian Do with Its Show of Bill Cosby's Art Collection?
As rape allegations against Bill Cosby have continue to emerge this week, with a fifth and sixth woman stepping forward to publicly accuse the iconic comedian, the backlash has been swift. But Cosby's collaboration with the art establishment remains alive and well.