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This week, the fallout from the Charlie Hebdo massacre dominated the news, while artist Tania Bruguera talks about her detention in Cuba, questions are raised about John Elderfield's conflict of interest, and more.
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Weekend Words: Police
This week, it came to light that the tensions between the New York City police force and Mayor Bill de Blasio may be resulting in fewer arrest and virtually no tickets.
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Weekend Words: Extra
It's been an extra-chilly week in New York, just the time for an Extra Edition of Weekend Words.
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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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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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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.