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This week, anger at MoMA's plan to destroy the American Folk Art Museum building, art market tidbits, the Digital Library of America, academia's servants, foundational principles, and more.
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This week, sacred Hopi artifacts go on sale in Paris, NYC settles with OWS over damaged library, Gagosian helps Pratt students, Qatar buys a well-known Picasso in the UK, museum layoffs, transgender in comics, and more.
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This week, the economic imperative for investing in art, dogs in pantyhose, the Renoir thief, sexism in architecture, street art in Palestine, GIF search engines, and more.
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This week, death of the gallery show, Ellis Island closed, Sharjah Biennial opens, Abramović reflects on the beauty of a glass of water, problems for looking at art with Google, NYPD is tracking criminals using photos on social media, the corporate role in the Harlem Shake, and more.
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This week, is it art (again), Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize, debating the creative class, Penn Station & LA MOCA problems, 20 Top Artist Grants and Fellowships, heavy metal in a London museum, how Iran censors the web, and more.
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This week, US is tops, LA's MOCA drama in GIFs, UAE's censorship problems, Michael Crichton on Jasper Johns, The Thing is back, and more.
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This week, William Wegman's first GIF, what it means to be Canadian, books that shaped art history, copyright infringement as terrorism, auction houses in India and China, and more.
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This week, MoMA's Rauschenberg/Johns closet, Libeskind rails against autocrat-serving architects, Piero della Francesca at the Frick, Dalí's curious 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Cory Arcangel in The New Yorker, and more.
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This week, Banksy dramas, Sou Fujimoto's cloud-like Serpentine Pavilion, a queer history of computing, improv doesn't pay, claims of discrimination at the El Museo del Barrio, and more.
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This week, Leonardo gets digitalize at the British Museum, Abramović on the value of discipline, Piero della Francesco in America, sustainable architecture, and more.
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This week, Michelangelo goes to jail, the story behind a famous Vietnam War photo, Richard Arschwager dies, the art market is evil, China's art market has shrunk, and more.
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This week, the world's first computer art, new rules for museums and Ancient art, photojournalism's boundaries, criticism of Foster's new New York Public Library plan, the artist of the highly criticized royal portrait speaks up, the meaning of "outsider" art, and more.