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Something Borrowed, Some Things About Place
“elevates copying to an art, but”1 In March, at Brown University, white conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith stood before an audience and read his new “poem,” which was actually Michael Brown’s autopsy...
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November/ December issues of SFAQ, NYAQ, and AQ out now. Get the whole issue as PDF
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Income And Wealth Inequality: Long-Term Trends And Current Realities
Among the things most Americans have long seemed to believe about our country is the idea that in some sense, we’re all part of one big team. Nods to national unity are common, and surely it isn’t hard...
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Style Wars: Critical Reflections On The Power Of Style
The fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent famously quipped that “fashions fade, style is eternal.” This enigmatic statement does much to elucidate the powerful place that style holds in many contemporary...
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On The Waters Of History: The 14th Istanbul Biennial
An old, white fishing boat journeys up and down the Bosphorus from the Golden Horn and is seen from various places in Istanbul throughout the day. This is not just a boat among many, but an artwork...
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On Point 2.08: The Lombardi Effect
I was late to the Mark Lombardi party. It was not until the beginning of 2004 that I had ever heard about him or his work, let alone ever having seen it. But it finally came to San Francisco in the...
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Literal American Gold Mine
“Everything here is built to scale,” I’m told, standing before a haul truck approximately the size of a two-story house. The person telling me this drives one of these haul trucks at a Newmont gold...
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Data
Living in Cambodia, I am sometimes offered brides. I go to eat dinner at a food stand and the owner suggests I meet her daughter, a thinly masked invitation to marry. My white skin is evidence enough...
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The Economy Of Nostalgia
Last year during the holiday season I sat in my family’s living room browsing Facebook on my iPhone while passively experiencing my brother’s Call of Duty marathon. If you were also using Facebook...
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Alternative Forms Of Media Art Distribution: Three Case Studies From Non-Art...
It has long been established that digital networks radicalized the ways in which contemporary moving-image and media artworks are distributed. Even before YouTube, network technology was fundamentally...
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The Postcolonial Contemporary
I assure you, my cemetery has no recollection Of unmarked mass graves, scattered bone fragments; That skull and cross-bones over the gate? Added by Disney— Leftover prop from Zorro. Adds a little...
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