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This week, Peter Schjeldahl is dying, a new Jordan Casteel mural, decolonizing a colonial museum, a guide to emoji punctuation, monoculture on the internet, Baby Yoda cookies and cocktails, and more.
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Required Reading
This week, Williamsburg goes BIG, Bette Midler's museum tweet, US politicians and food, how the British damaged the Parthenon marbles, the longest walk on earth, and more.
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This week, the problem with Superchief, reviewing Calgary's new Central Library, Judith Butler's performative gripe, a map of New York City's endangered languages, best museums of 2019, and more.
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This week, a newly donated tiny Seurat, Eli Valley on the use of art to fight anti-semitism, reviewing The Irishman, Ta-Nehisi Coates's freedom stories, the kinds of Spanish in the US, and more.
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This week, Charlotte Brontë miniature magazine, flax age vs. iron age, the problem with "landscape urbanism," China's new drone tech, US exporting homophobia, and more.
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This week, the role of the artist in the age of Trump, LACMA's stalled fundraising, Kurt Vonnegut on making a living as a writer, trans lives and cancel culture, and more.
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This week, the origin of Baby Shark, Martin Scorsese on Superhero movies, TikTok's censorship problems, rappers and the Trump name, Twitter's Saudi Arabia spies, and more.
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This week, architect unions, Aaron Sorkin writes a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Hal Foster on the new MoMA, Zadie Smith on Celia Paul’s new memoir, Kanye in Wyoming, and more.
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The week, a protest performance at the National Portrait Gallery, Disney's weird policy towards classic Fox movies, words about perception, the lack of food in video games, criminalizing the b-word, and more.
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This week, the rich are hoarding, feminist performance art responds to rape, the story behind one of the most famous game show jingles, and more.
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This week, a history of Porgy and Bess, talking to Simone Leigh, Amy Sherald, and Lorna Simpson, history of the Art Institute of Chicago's lions, otters chasing a butterfly, and more.
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This week, the northernmost hotel in the world, food culture may be killing us, college classism, a Gucci runway protest, a defense of fiction, and more.