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Weekend Words: Tea
This week, the Tea Party reared its ugly head and Eric Cantor is singing the blues.
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Just in Time for Whitney Retrospective, H&M Becomes Jeff Koons's Dog Park
Oh look, another major retailer tie-in for a major museum show. Yes, the upcoming Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum has a corporate fashion deal, with a balloon-dog emblazoned handbag available for $49.95 at select locations starting July 17 — corresponding with the opening of the world
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Is There Really Nothing Left to Say About Purity Ball Photos?
Considering they've been making the internet rounds for over a month, I did not want to write about David Magnusson's photographs of fathers and daughters who attend purity balls.
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Disciplinary Architecture or Deterrence by Design
Spikes installed to deter sleeping and sitting beside the entrance to a luxury building were brought to public attention on Saturday following a tweet by @EthicalPioneer that has since inspired petition and protest.
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Required Reading
This week, the relationship of the superrich and art, art exhibitions in malls, the seven deadly digital sins, rise of Russian propaganda, queering Black Metal, what the 9/11 Museum is missing, and more.
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Weekend Words: Rights
Two-hundred twenty-five years ago today, James Madison proposed twelve amendments to the United States constitution. Three and a half months later, ten of the twelve were ratified, and have since become known as the Bill of Rights.
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Art School's Pulp Fiction Moment
Thank you, Jerry Saltz, for sharing this classic pulp fiction book cover on Twitter. It really puts art school into a real context.
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F*#!k Graffiti
As with many things in life, I made an animated GIF to help cope with an uninspired "fuck" graffiti epidemic.
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Did Karl Lagerfeld Steal a Sneaker Design?
As mass-market fashion continues its longstanding tradition of ripping off independent designers, a twist in the narrative emerges: is a high-end designer now ripping off a mass-market company?
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Eli Broad-sides German Firm with Museum Construction Lawsuit
Eli Broad's under-construction Los Angeles museum, ominously named The Broad, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the German supplier of its distinctive honeycomb façade, the New York Times reported.
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Pool Party
What explains the summer pool’s thematic and visual dynamism? Unpack its design and suite of characteristics and it becomes clear.
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Required Reading
This week, women in street art, the worst waiter in history, art market bubble, a broken Picasso plate, reviewing Chipotle lit, the capitalist imagination, immigration stats, letters in words, and more.