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Required Reading
This week, photography's truth, the media's numbness to torture, the clock of the Met Museum, mass art, a photo no one would publish, mistakes in Medieval English architecture, and more.
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Weekend Words: Flag
This week it was revealed that the masterminds behind the mysterious appearance of a white flag atop the Brooklyn Bridge on July 22nd were artists after all.
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Man Behind I NY Tries Branding Climate Change
Global warming is a phrase that pops up just about everywhere, ensuring that we confront our planet's worsening climate changes. Designer Milton Glaser, however, is aiming to stress that the reality of the environmental situation is much worse than the term 'warming' would suggest.
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Hashtagging Racism: The Power of #IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Last night, in Ferguson, Missouri, police in riot gear entered residential neighbourhoods and lobbed teargas, flash bombs, rubber bullets, and noise cannons (also known as LRAD or Long Range Acoustic Devices) at people who were gathered peacefully to protest the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old, Mi
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Ancient Statues Pose for Selfies
It’s one thing to take a #museumselfie with a work of art, as if to say, “yes, I was here with this artwork” or “yes, here is my reflection in the surface of this piece.” It’s another thing to make Greco-Roman statues look like they were chiseled specifically for selfie-shooting moments.
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Liberté, Égalité, and … Beyoncé
For the days when you don't feel a sense of brotherhood, there is Beyoncé.
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Required Reading
This week, museums of the mind, Google captured in photos, a leaked document by Manifesta 10 curator Kasper König, 30 years of cell phone design, Sonny Rollins spoof goes wrong, online curators, and more.
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Weekend Words: Walk
This week, the Guardian reported that Dallas, which “shares with Detroit the honor of being one of the two most car-dependent major metropolitan areas in the US” may be losing its affection for the automobile.
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Going Ape Over a Photograph's Copyright
Apparently Wikimedia, the US-based organization behind Wikipedia, is refusing to remove an image of a monkey taken by … wait for it, wait for it … the monkey itself.
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"Liberals Are Killing Art," or Critic Jed Perl Gets Emotional
Jed Perl, a savvy polemicist far above fatuous windbag trolling, is mad as hell. Why? Because "Liberals Are Killing Art," according to the headline accompanying the art critic's latest for The New Republic.
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Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should: On Marina Abramović and Unpaid Work
When I read about Marina Abramović’s volunteer advertisement on the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) website last week, it got me thinking about how many arts nonprofits employ the law to their benefit, and many times against an ethical grain.
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4Chan Circlejerk Goes to eBay, Anonymous Screenshot 'Sells' for $90K
Whether or not you consider the 4Chan post that recently sold for $90,900 art or not, it has certainly become the latest source of frenzy over the limits of commodification — or was it just a major troll on the click-hungry media?