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This week, the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed hotel opened in Macau, Elizabeth Alexander on Lorna Simpson, art collector and art publisher Peter Brant sounds, um, problematic, "Terrorientalist Landscapes," Paul Gauguin's midlife crisis, and more.
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This week, Murakami and Kanye, museums confronting colonialism, André Leon Talley talks race, the Enlightenment's racism, winning a house in Detroit, Falz's This Is Nigeria, and more.
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This week, the best of the architecture biennial in Venice, Kerry James Marshall on Charles White, the problematic "Glendale Biennial," telling the story of the Chinatown Art Brigade, and more.
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This week, Lorna Simpson collages, two very different stories about Saudi art, the politics of photo sharing, Dia:Beacon satire, Detroit Techno history, Trump as Charlie Brown, and more.
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This week, the man that helped launch black modernism in the US, considering Nobuyoshi Araki, crowdfunding as a political weapon, a reading list for mental health month, the Laurel/Yanny divide, and more.
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This week, when Canadian students called the art of Carrie Mae Weems racist, Alexa and the blind, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye, black jazz ambassadors during the Cold War, and more.
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This week, dating a museum, trusting Silicon Valley with our common history, a new book on photographer Garry Winogrand, how slaves are depicted in Ancient art, and more.
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This week, Hubble Space Telescope turns 28, IKEA might develop a hotel, democracy vs. the algorithm, is Instagram over, Etel Adnan's color, angry geek culture, and more.
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This week, Yayoi Kusama goes floral, the battle over US identity, considering David Goldblatt in Paris, Humanities problems, reviewing the Pioneers of African-American Cinema, and more.
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This week, Soul of a Nation in Arkansas, "female monsters" in art, new "golden age" of black painting, trends at Milan Design Week, Zaha Hadid's only built house is complete, and more.
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This week, reviewing Civilizations, conserving Edgar Degas's tutus, tech's "disruption" of photography, Facebook's long history of apologies, architects and designers championing afrofutrism, and more.
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This week, reviewing Art in the Age of the Internet, Colonial Californiano architecture, the boy in Diane Arbus’s "Child With A Toy Hand Grenade" photograph, the winners of Smithsonian's photo contest, and more.