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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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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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Recently, Cliff Bar announced the termination of its sponsorship of five professional rock climbers.
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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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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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On Thursday, amNewYork reported that the annual SantaCon charity bar crawl will not be heading for Bushwick this year.
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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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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.
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As might be expected, Marina Abramović's new performance event at the Sean Kelly gallery, Generator, has attracted a healthy level of press coverage that is concomitant with her reputation.
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Earlier this month, workers in England broke ground on a $46 million memorial to extinct species.
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Hardly a day goes by on the internet without a publication releasing some kind of Important List. The latest is The New Republic's "100 Years 100 Thinkers," a compendium prompted by the magazine's centennial.
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This week, net neutrality, photographic muzak, naïve techno-utopianism, Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer, professional video game player superstars, crappy design, and more.