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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.

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Required Reading

This week, war photography and pop culture, breaking up the major museums, Hello Kitty is not a cat, video game sexism, criminalizing science, and more.

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Weekend Words: Breach

This week, another Brooklyn Bridge breach, this time not for the sake of art, but a selfie.

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And this concludes … Videodrome

Thanks for watching our daylong stream of videos from across the internet.

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Irma Vep as a Space Between the Artist and Her Creation

Artist Michelle Handelman has taken the epic 7-hour film Les Vampires about a bizarre underground criminal gang and transformed into "Irma Vep, The Last Breath," a video project that is about "living in the shadows, criminal anxiety and the relationship between the artist and her creation, both fict

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The Love Songs of Saddam Hussein

Commissioned by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the songs in Adel Abidin's "Three Love Songs" (2010) are transformed into sinister pop music videos that use attractive blonde women as conduits for the fallen dictator's propaganda.

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The Mediated Reality of Harun Farocki

Last month, German filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki died at the age of 70. Farocki made films that were unabashedly political yet remarkably reserved.