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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.
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Weekend Words: Cash
This week the Guardian reported that a Dutch man who received brain implants to treat "a severe form of obsessive compulsive disorder" has developed "a sudden and powerful love for the music of Johnny Cash."
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Kids Looking at Matisse
I'm a sucker for children's reactions to art, and in this new video by the Tate a bunch of kids share their thoughts about artist Henri Matisse's cut-paper works at the London museum.
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Maya Angelou's Last Tweet
This morning, the sad news of poet, writer, and scholar Maya Angelou's death has been circulating online.
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Gagosian Wants You to Shop Small?
The Madison Avenue Gagosian shop has a sign encouraging you to "Shop Small." Um, what?
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From Dalí to Leonardo on the Backs of Playing Cards
When Brazilian artist Sōnia Menna Barreto was a teenager in São Paulo, her mother used to stay up all night long playing cards with her friends. That memory sunk into Barreto's consciousness, surfacing in a surreal series of trompe l’oeil paintings the artist has been creating over the last few year
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Required Reading
This week, Glasgow's Macintosh building is mostly saved, a meditation on the essence of video games, background on the Joe Scanlan/Donelle Woolford project, the World Cup goes viral, the legacy of Anthony Caro, a giant golden calf piñata, and more.