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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.
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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.
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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.
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This week, Žižek weighs in a global protest, Walker Evans at MoMA, political cartoons, Smithsonian's space problem, Faulkner sues Woody Allen, and more.
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This week, more proof Joseph Beuys lied, more problems for Cooper Union, the world's biggest building in the world unveiled, Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial has more problems, Timbuktu's library assessed, and more.
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This week, New York's arts funding future, 1980s abstraction, racism in the new Lone Ranger movie, Google's RSS deathwish, Lou Reed reviews Kanye West, Rineke Dijkstra photographs the Dutch Royals, and more.
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This week, James Turrell explains why his work photographs badly, LA Times hates MOCA's new architecture show, Corbusier at MoMA, how much does Pandora pay artists, more on Amazon's art-selling business, Francesco Bonami hates Ai Weiwei and Banksy, and more …
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This week, a massive Mayan city has been unearthed, street artists are being targeted in extreme ways by police, Sicilian authorities may derail a major art show, abstract art dominates 1% buying habits, a LA woman was killed for taking a photo, and more.
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This week, the Venice Biennale makes the art world go round, a new accessibility icon, Starry Night explained, Warhol inspired Dior, James Turrell overload, and more.
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This week, Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion is unveiled, expect more Flavins in the world, David Foster Wallace on a crisis in America, unpaid internships and privilege, Peter Zumthor's proposal for LA, book covers as gendered spaces, the Hirshhorn Museum's bubble pops, and more.
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This week, the winners of the Venice Biennale, cat selfies, controversy in Poland, Abramović loves New York, a short history of the Bauhaus, questions for the Warhol Foundation, free PDF downloads of Wolfgang Tillmans books, and more.
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This week, a major museum curator goes commercial, the Hirshhorn director is out, female artists are under-represented in the UK, a digital take on a gallery Jane Austen visited in 1813, the owner of John Currin's topless Bea Arthur portrait, and more.