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This week, museums of the mind, Google captured in photos, a leaked document by Manifesta 10 curator Kasper König, 30 years of cell phone design, Sonny Rollins spoof goes wrong, online curators, and more.
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This week, auction houses stalking new buyers, Frick Museum controversies, objections to Norman Rockwell's new biography, the impact of deskilling on arts education, should musicians play Tel Aviv, and more?
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This week, defining "public," the Mona Lisa of digital art, the most modern curator, Baffler online, white flags over Brooklyn, the Chinese role in WWI, Americans eligible for Man Booker prize for the first time, and more.
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This week, a photojournalist on a beach in Gaza, a dog saves an artist's life, CalArts in the 1970s, Žižek plagiarizes from a white supremacists, in defense of appropriation, post-Murakami Japanese art, and more.
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This week, why contemporary art museums are vital, the drawbacks of internet visibility, smells of the Byzantine Empire, working in the Domino Sugar Refinery before Kara Walker, all the Vermeers in the world, and more.
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This week, letting art orgs die, Marina has a headache, criticism of Gehry's plans in Philly, LGBTQ issues at Manifesta 10, NYC's shadow transit system, copyrighting scents, and more.
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This week, Koons reviews, Facebook's emotional manipulation, artwashing, Native American map of North America, Prince's meme-inspired song, and more.
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This week, blurring lines between fine art and video games, Indonesian performance artist gets YouTube famous, abstraction's sameness problem, cartoonists and censors, smartcameras, Terry Richardson the predator, and more.
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This week, art market boom thoughts, women ignoring men in art, press freedoms in the US, emotions of fonts, displacement as translation, reconstructing Le Corbusier's Maison Dom-Ino in Venice, and more.
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This week, the relationship of the superrich and art, art exhibitions in malls, the seven deadly digital sins, rise of Russian propaganda, queering Black Metal, what the 9/11 Museum is missing, and more.
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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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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.