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This week came the announcement that the director of Dia Art Foundation, Philippe Vergne, has been named to replace Jeffrey Deitch as the director of the troubled Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Will this put the museum on the right track?
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"Polar Vortex" — nothing else needs to be said.
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On New Year's Day, pot went legal in Colorado.
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With the year coming to a close, it's time to think about time.
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What goes up, must come down, especially when no one really knows what it is. On Wednesday, Bitcoin crashed.
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"When is a handshake not just a handshake?" asks the New York Daily News. "When it happens between the presidents of Cuba and the United States, two countries whose enmity has lasted well over half a century and resisted all attempts to normalize relations."
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With the rollout of Obamacare rolling out once more, the chatter is again all about risk: risk pools, risks corridors, pricing risks, risk adjustments — calling to mind the words of former Vice President Dan Quayle, "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
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Not to be outdone by OxfordDictionaries.com, which, as reported by Hyperallergic's Alicia Eler, has selected "selfie" as its new Word of the Year, Weekend Words respectfully centers on the self.
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In Germany, it was revealed this week, a 1938 law is still on the books that legalized the Nazi seizure of thousands of “degenerate” artworks.
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This week, to keep a date at Christie's, a major painting skipped a major museum retrospective. That museum would be the Guggenheim, and the painting would be Christopher Wool's "Apocalypse Now" (1988): SELL THE HOUSE SELL THE CAR SELL THE KIDS. And sell it did.
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Can the Republican Party find a Savior from the Center?
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This week we celebrated All Hallow's Eve, All Saints Day and last but not least, since it includes just about everybody, All Souls Day.