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