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On Thursday, New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, passed his hundredth day in office, telling an audience in the Great Hall of Cooper Union, “Grass-roots politics, neighborhood politics, tells us that the people are almost always ahead of their leaders.”
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What does the art market have in common with Major League Baseball and the Supreme Court? Spending limits are for suckers.
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As Jillian Steinhauer reported in Hyperallergic on Monday, "The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.”
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On Thursday, the New York Times published a large pull-out section, Museums, which included an article on the attempts various institutions have made at "Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons."
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The only bright spot in the news this week was President Obama's executive action on Thursday, ordering the U.S. Department of Labor to revise federal rules on overtime wages, qualifying millions of Americans to receive extra pay if they work more than 40 hours a week.
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This week marked the opening of the last Whitney Biennial before the museum exits its historic Marcel Breuer building, as well as the last Brucennial, courtesy of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, before it exits the scene for good.
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Today's New York Times Magazine brings news from the forefront of the de-extinction movement, which hopes to use genome-editing technology to revive lost species, including "an Australian frog, extinct for 30 years, that gave birth through its mouth."
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The Great Merge: after last week's news that Comcast intends to swallow Time Warner Cable, the Corcoran Gallery of Art announced that it will be subsumed by the National Gallery, and Facebook is throwing $16 billion at WhatsApp, an ad-free messaging service that charges subscribers $1 per year.
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On Wednesday, Hyperallergic's Mostafa Heddaya reported on the Museum of Modern Art's attempt to save face by saving the bronze plate facade of the American Folk Art Museum.
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A year ago, Weekend Words gave winter its due. After the week we've had, a revisit seemed in order, this time an all-poetry tribute.
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This week came the announcement that Google has teamed up with the country’s largest vision-care company in a deal that will offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for Google Glass, a move that may hasten the popularity of wearable computers.
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This week, big bridge news: the replacement for the Tappan Zee will begin construction by the end of the year, and the longest bridge in New York State will, at eight lanes, become one of the widest in the world.