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The contemporary artist refutes the notion that auction houses need government oversight.
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The contemporary artist says the best time to make art is when everyone thinks art is dead.
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The contemporary artist says integrity is the essence of artistic success.
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Chuck Close says comparing art dealers to Wall Street crooks is unfair.
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The contemporary artist talks about where he was when Martin Luther King, Jr. died and meeting Malcolm X.
A team of hyper-geniuses at MIT’s Media Lab has designed a cellphone type device that gathers data on the environment around you, searches for information using the Internet, aggregates the […]
Lance Armstrong and doping. Marion Jones and steroids. Tanya Harding and a lead pipe. Scandal seems to inevitably follow on the heels of—or, in some cases, preclude—gold medals. So it […]
According to NASA, there is a green comet named Lulin approaching Earth. One astronomer calls it “a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now.” […]
Libertarian music critic Nat Hentoff, one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment, has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow. In a press release issued by the […]
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The experimental psychologist discusses the quest for understanding what makes us tick.
The British neurologist and author Oliver Sacks recently chronicled the experience of losing his sight from ocular melanoma in a series of journals and an interview with Wired magazine. It’s […]
I’ve more or less stopped paying attention to political news from Zimbabwe. As an increasing number of “talks” seem to end in reaffirmation of still President Mugabe’s Reign of Terror, […]
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The experimental psychologist says not all problems have to have a moralistic solution.
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“You’re kind of unclear as to why this Leviathan would just be kind of a fascist dictator, as if that would be better than life in the state of anarchy.”
Demonstrated by his activity on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the official White House portal, President Obama is institutionalizing social networking as the interactive feature par excellence in American governance. The […]
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The experimental psychologist confronts the contradictions of moralists.