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Weekend Words: Little
A week after he was declared a lame duck, President Obama signed an unprecedented climate pact with China. But is it too little too late?
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Metropolitan Museum Butt-Checks Kim Kardashian
The Metropolitan Museum has officially won the internet today.
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Required Reading
This week, the case against repatriating cultural artifacts, British surrealists against fascism, Ai Weiwei on the internet, Isamu Noguchi's playground, and more.
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Weekend Words: Lame
It's the second weekend of November, and President Obama is officially a lame duck.
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Publicity Splash: Ai Weiwei Splatters Designer Clothes for Fashion Magazine
Don’t ever trust your possessions with Ai Weiwei.
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Photographing Where We Take Our Photographs
An interaction design student has started a project he calls "Location-Based Light Painting," for which he maps geotagged photos of public spaces that are available online, thus turning our obsession with photography into something tangible.
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On Ken Johnson and the Question of Sexism
Two weeks ago, when critic Ken Johnson reviewed Michelle Grabner's current solo exhibition in the New York Times, he fell into a trap. Johnson didn't like Grabner's work, which is fine, but rather than breaking it down to understand why he didn't like it, he resorted to half-baked biographical stere
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900 Arcade Games, Both Classic and Obscure, Now Playable Online for Free
The Internet Archive, the non-profit behind the Wayback Machine and countless other digital resources, has just launched the Internet Arcade, a free online database of about 900 classic arcade games you can play in your browser.
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Required Reading
This week, an alternative history of US art, making bad reviews disappear, the art of sushi, LA and sci-fi, Picasso and the camera, and more.
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Weekend Words: Habit
Picasso is suddenly everywhere — at the Cubism exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, in gallery shows of his photography and his portraits of Jacqueline Roque, and at the long-delayed reopening of his museum in Paris.
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Required Reading
This week, Picasso Museum problems, Sweden's font, content moderators, Frank Gehry's f-you, John Constable reconsidered, the endangered bookshops of New York, and more.
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Weekend Words: Weed
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, High Times Magazine has issued High Times: A 40-Year History of the World’s Most Infamous Magazine, which The New York Times calls "a coffee table book for low, sticky coffee tables."