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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
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Required Reading
This week, Santa's Chinese elves, 200 journalists in prison, troll hunters, inequality and Uber, top selfie searches, art bros, and more.
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Weekend Words: Island
It only took a half-century, but this week the United States restored diplomatic relations with the island nation 90 miles off its shoreline.
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The Most-Searched Artists in the US, According to eBay
What significance does Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi have to people in the state of Michigan? Why do the netizens of Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Wisconsin love Faith Ringgold?
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Required Reading
This week, JR's eyes in #BlackLivesMatter protest, Republicans and torture, museums and big data, saving Wikipedia, the meaning of graffiti in ancient Rome, and more.
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Weekend Words: Red
This week, attention returned to the red planet, where the robotic rover Curiosity sent back evidence of long-vanished rivers and lakes — and potentially life — on Mars.
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Lobbyist Misleads on Islamic State Antiquities Trafficking
When Hyperallergic debunked antiquities trade representative Ursula Kampmann's supposed debunking of intelligence on Islamic State antiquities trafficking, Cultural Property Observer (CPO) (dealer and lobbyist) Peter Tompa tried to debunk Hyperallergic in turn.
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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.