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Revisiting Rosa Parks's Arrest Documents
This past Monday, December 1, marked the 59th anniversary of Rosa Parks’s Montgomery arrest.
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#BlackLivesMatter vs #ArtBasel
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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Required Reading
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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Weekend Words: Climb
Recently, Cliff Bar announced the termination of its sponsorship of five professional rock climbers.
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Behold Nazi Postcards from the Infamous Degenerate Art Show
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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Required Reading
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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Weekend Words: Crawl
On Thursday, amNewYork reported that the annual SantaCon charity bar crawl will not be heading for Bushwick this year.
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Darkskinned or Lightskinned? Crowdsourcing Blackness
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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What Should the Smithsonian Do with Its Show of Bill Cosby's Art Collection?
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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Before Abramović, A History of Nothing
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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$46M Spent on Extinction Monument Could Help Curb Extinction
Earlier this month, workers in England broke ground on a $46 million memorial to extinct species.
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Another Boring List Praises the White Men of Art and Architecture
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.