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Congratulations, You’re the New Trend: Commercializing Dissent in the Age of...
Since I’ve taken on the massive task of reading the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, and because it’s an overwhelming mindfuck of a read, I wasn’t planning on writing anything...
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Femme Fallahs distinctly placed against the vivid–A look at Kehinde Wiley’s...
Painter Kehinde Wiley is known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of beautiful young black and latino men, masterfully rendered in the self-confident, empowered poses seen in classical European...
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Strange Fruit: Interview with Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas latest body of work Strange Fruit expresses the historical truths blacks had to endure throughout their journey here in the United States. Hank created vivid comparisons of black...
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Foreword Story: The Hands of Jezebel
Boy does my mother love Jesus. Growing up the tough macho male that was imprinted in my mind wasn’t Hercules, it was Samson. The tale of betrayal that I was accustomed to didn’t involve a wolf dressed...
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Foreword Story: That’s Death Over Designer
When I received our assignment sheet from our editor-in-chief, I saw the headline “Foreword Story: That’s Death Over Designer” and I immediately reply. Ironically, I was having a conversation just...
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In A World Desperate For Uniqueness & Originality, The Greatest Irony May Be...
In a world desperate for uniqueness and originality, the greatest irony may be that we ultimately succumb to “following the herd.” Whether we like it or not, we the “sheeple” have become fervent...
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Foreword Story: Most Expensive Meme Ever
Freedom, that glorious word which drives America through each day and each era and is so important to us… it’s been completely revoked from our new milieu, and we’re totally okay with it. Freedom of...
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Is Reagan wacker than crack? #QuestionsThatNeedAnswers
Is Ronald Reagan wacker than crack? #QuestionsThatNeedAnswers The L.A. Times [recalled], “Hero though Reagan was to so many Americans, his legacy is marred. Economically, the Reagan years were...
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What I Do, How I Do It, and Why It Means So Much To Me
As a music writer, I find myself writing more album reviews than anything else. Yes, I often am writing manifestos that draw from my own musings as a listener and observer to tackle the more abstract...
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Hugh Leeman had to kill a bird for this
br> Epilogue is a fully immersive art installation created by Hugh Leeman, Eddie Colla, and D Young V in downtown Los Angeles. It opened September 8 at Hold Up Art Gallery. “Icarus and the Dream”,...
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Do Artists Have Time For Love? #questionsthatneedanswers
I’m going to start this piece by changing the subject… Am I throwing you off yet? I want to take this back to square one, wherein lies our original question, “Do artists have time for love?” The query...
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Let it be the new cliché: Art Basel wasn’t seen in a day
Let it be the new cliché: Art Basel wasn’t seen in a day. That’s the first of many startling realizations that overcome you while cruising and perusing a pulsating Miami Beach, absorbing as much...
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RAP GENIU$
And it’s back and forth all day like Red and Meth, I joke when I say I’m the best in the booth, But a lot of truth is said in jest And if I ever do live to be a legend, I’ma die a sudden death 5 mics...
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#secretproject … #questionmark #period
Hey, hey, hey, hey – hey: So … that’s involving GaGa, Rihanna, Naomi, Cher, and 36 others … non-commercial “artistic and political” #secretproject directed by Steven Klein. A rumor has it that it’s...
View ArticleThe Facebook Phone: because Tamagotchi needed a 21st Century rebrand
The Facebook Phone: because Tamagotchi needed a 21st Century rebrand… I’d get a Facebook phone but then I’d have to buy a Twitter wallet, a Tumblr coffee pot… and that way lies madness. Which I could...
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A Clockwork Orleans, The Drowned and The Fury, Kanye Shrugged #bushlibrarybooks
#icymi The G.W. Bush Library opens: “a huge, glitzy, glam museum of spin; a giant campaign commercial in museum form” — Kari (@swiper_bootz) April 24, 2013 A Clockwork Orleans, The Drowned and The...
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The Sheep Station
“We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion....
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Creative couple Davide Luciano and Claudia Ficca are at it again
Creative couple Davide Luciano and Claudia Ficca are at it again, this time with a new project titled: Gourmet Mouse Traps. As the name suggests, this photography series showcases mouse traps baited...
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Spectacular Carnage
Our generation’s world war is via media, we sacrifice our daily realities for projected purpose and prominence… eye-deep in student loan debt, creating daily content free of charge to the nation’s most...
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Todd Strong’s Test Culture
When humans leave this world, their machines stay behind. Self-automated and lonely, our savvy robots begin to experiment—tearing, digging, sowing, yielding, pumping, splashing, boiling. This is an...
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