Required Reading

This week, Banksy speaks, a Russian artist fools London dealers, art historians are scared to give opinions, street artists in Palestine, the Met’s “primitive” heritage, a forgotten Lynda Benglis sculpture, and more.

This week, Jeffrey Deitch talks street art and his future, architecture and design award winners, “average” women around the world, internet empires, Native American symbols, photography in museums, and more.

This week, Detroiter definitely don’t want to sell DIA’s art, US gov’t shutdown may mean Library of Congress’s website goes offline, thinking about portraiture, real estate’s love affair with art, the world’s first inflatable concert hall, and more.

This week, New Yorker gets snarky, guns at MoMA, new Banksy, digitizing drawings, a literary classic is banned in North Carolina, and more

This week, Istanbul Biennial loses its edge, Prada Marfa is an ad, science of snobbery, a better GIF, Code Pink’s photo bombs, Congress’s new media law, making fun of fashion week, and more.

This week, Iran in New York, the lack of illegal street art, racial boundaries, Jewish identity in videogames, Magritte as a neighbor, bad twerking, immigrant fiction, and more.

This week, Ann Freeman says she was a victim of the Knoedler fraud, opera in Beirut, the walk-in prison vagina in Johannesburg, the YouTube war, fashion’s 3D printing moment, and more.

This week, mountains on top of skyscrapers, changes to art dealing, MIT’s art collection, printing architecture, a same-sex kiss misinterpreted, and more.

This week, an unexpected art forger, tintypes return to war, a phallus museum, frontline at an Egyptian protest rally, KKK in photos, the relationship of comics and poetry, and much more.

This week, a chilling performance in Shanghai, the sale of the Washington Post, history of London coffeehouses, privacy and art, TED Talk as propaganda, and more.

This week, art forgeries, Frere-Jones on Jay Z’s crappy album, food criticism drama, sound art resonates, the woman who was raped by Roman Polanski speaks, Boston’s only graffiti park, Freudian analysis of sexting, 3D printing renaissance, and more.

This week, “smart dumb” is a thing, High Line shenanigans, Martin Scorsese talks cinema aesthetics, the charitable-industrial complex, every movie reference in The Simpsons, and more.