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This week, Wim Wenders and reactionary sentimentalism, the importance of Palmyra, when civilization started to discriminate against women, the power of images, African Americans and appropriation, and more.
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This week, college and the market, foundations funding inequality, MoMA by the numbers, 1-star Yelp reviews of US national parks, and more.
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This week, a profile of the family benefiting from a wealthy San Francisco art school, new science fiction about climate change, a shamed Getty curator tells her story, Belize's art revolution, a pomo architecture hater, and more.
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This week, the death of the US dance critic, Black Lives Matter at the Venice Biennale, James Baldwin's FBI file, "Happy Birthday"'s copyright shenanigans, and more.
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This week, considering Hiroshima 70 years later, museums as publishers, the myth of a Brooklyn exodus, Ferguson's radical knitters, popular vape flavors, and more.
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This week, 35 women tell their Bill Cosby stories, reflecting on memory in the internet age, how are performance artists paid, white privilege in Baltimore's music scene, and more.
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This week, commercializing museums, map of literary road trips, designing masculinity, McDonald's in Alaska, new Tokyo Olympic logo, John Waters says don't smoke, and more.
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This week, Eid cards, a mysterious "Chicken Church," Cosby and Smithsonian, the best Dutch galleries in the US, an architect talks about the perfect sandcastle, and more.
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This week, the myths of an affordable LA, a church made of trees, gay lit, US sanctions and Iranian artists, decolonizing African art, and more.
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This week, history of barbecue, Damien Hirst's mid-life crisis, conceptual poetry's bigotry, the ISIS dildo flag, a crow rides a bald eagle, the first 3D-printed office, and more.
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This week, USC's embattled dean speaks, famous artists review books, defending gallery assistants, and more.
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This week, Malevich's "Black Square," paying comic artists, sexism in club culture, Egyptian photo archive goes Creative Commons, Irish slaves, encyclopedia of pasta, and more.