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This week, Mandela is gone, Hopi artifacts go on sale in Paris, smarm is bad, books on Lucian Freud, playing da Vinci's piano-cello, and more.
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This week, the price of art, China's rainbow hills, the strengths of the graphic novel, Vermeer's possible secret, the best Vines, and more.
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This week, the Detroit Institute of Arts needs to come up with money, the collector at the center of the Nazi-era art loot, Bob Dylan and Pharrell Williams push buttons, Wikipedia's problems, fact vs. opinion on American cable news, walls around the world, and more.
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This week, Daumier, Art Spiegelman, stolen art, José Clemente Orozco, Batkid, transgender poetry, Chinese censorship, and more.
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This week, Banksy charity sale is a bust, art and the 1%, looking at Norman Rockwell, opera's future, creating contemplative spaces in video games, underwear that masks smells, and more.
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This week, race/ethnicity stats in popular film, the world's first emoji movie, helping the blind see art, problems for photojournalists in Russia, Cornell returns tablets to Iraq, Saddam Hussein's former palace becomes a museum, and much more.
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This week, Banksy hates the new Freedom Tower, North Korean visions of China, Turkey's ban on the letter "q" is over, Byzantine in DC, a black art show that marginalizes black artists, and more.
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This week, artists and gentrification, Sandy's art show backlash, Gitmo's artist/reporter, the war on immigration, brutalism at colleges, genius/tyrant/collector J. Pierpont Morgan, and more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This week, New Yorker gets snarky, guns at MoMA, new Banksy, digitizing drawings, a literary classic is banned in North Carolina, and more