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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."

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Advice from Jenny Holzer for the NFL and Ray Rice

What happens when you combine Ray Rice, football, a meme, and Jenny Holzer?

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Required Reading

This week, a Rothko sells for ~$150 million, NASA's moon photos, identity of Jack the Ripper uncovered, violence of architecture, art institutions and imperialism, screenshots as POV, and more.

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Weekend Words: Cloud

Newsweek reported this week that the use of the Cloud has grown so much in recent years that "according to Greenpeace, if this ‘collective cloud’ were a single country, it would rank sixth in the world, in terms of energy consumption, behind only Russia, India, Japan, the U.S. and China, in that ord

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No, Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Are Not Art [UPDATED]

In a shameless bid for attention and relevance, and probably money, Cory Allen Contemporary Art (CACA) in St. Petersburg, Florida, has announced that it will show leaked nude images of actress Jennifer Lawrence and supermodel Kate Upton as appropriated artworks by an LA artist who goes by the name o

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Looking at Cats with Ai Weiwei

“It’s all about the cats,” Ai Weiwei said recently, sitting in his Beijing compound in conversation with a writer for a new feline-themed magazine called Puss Puss. “They stay here, some have babies here, but it’s their home and really an oasis for us.”

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Life Imitating Art: Grant Wood's Ice Bucket Challenge

Not sure if this ever raised money for charity.