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Required Reading

This week, American adulthood, women in comics, dealer/collector mistrust, artists expecting more from dealers, NYC etiquette, Fatih Akin's new genocide film, bad ledes, distorting the Renaissance, and more.

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Weekend Words: Apple

While all eyes were on Apple's Watch, CEO Tim Cook wrote an open letter which, according to CNET, “sought to reassure Apple's customers that their data was safe from the prying eyes of government surveillance agencies, which have reportedly procured information on electronic communications from Goog

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Net Neutrality Is Crucial for Artists and Arts Organizations

When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) closed its public comment period on the issue of net neutrality earlier this week, the agency counted more than 3 million comments, the greatest volume of such input in its history.

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Appropriators Beware: The Author Is Not Quite Dead

I’ve been called a lot of things (including, “lawyer”), but one thing I can be proud of is never having been called a liar.

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Required Reading

This week, Scotland's Old Masters crisis, Anselm Kiefer's 200-acre studio, Virginia Woolf and portraiture, Apple Watch buzz, ISIS think pieces, 10 important books in people's lives, and more.

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Weekend Words: Park

It used to be that no one would venture below Houston Street without a police escort. Now the long-gone, hardscrabble artists’ neighborhood has graduated from million-dollar lofts to million-dollar parking spots.

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How Food Stole the Avant-Garde: Letter From Copenhagen

It was my last day in Copenhagen and I had already been to the zoo and was rushing to a tasting of mummified roe deer, fried bee larvae and moth cheese.

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Art Basel and Kickstarter Team Up to Make Each Other Feel Good

Here's a URL that launched this morning: artbasel.com/crowdfunding. Yes, indeed, friends! Art Basel, the art fair behemoth that rakes in millions of dollars annually, is now investing in crowdfunding. Happy day?

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The Battle of Booklyn

Having two entities using the same word to identify similar services is likely a problem. Case in point, Booklyn.

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Warhol's Little Red Face Book

LOS ANGELES — The name Andy Warhol is synonymous with Pop art, a movement often written off as apolitical and shallow in its engagement with American culture. Reflections of this assumption are all contained in Little Red Book #296, an album of 18 images that was recently gifted to Tulsa's Philbrook

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A Small Protest Against a Public Street Turned Private in Queens

Did you know that, if you have enough money in New York City, you can buy a public street? OK, not buy, but lease one, for a really long time. That's what Kaufman Astoria Studios did in Queens, and someone is not happy about it.

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British Museum Wants Someone to Update Its Website for Free [UPDATED]

The British Museum is a flagship cultural institution with 2013 expenditures of £115.4 million (~$186.2 million). It is also, according to a current online listing, seeking free help from experienced coders in the guise, naturally, of an internship or "student placement" with its "Digital Team."