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Michael Bloomberg with Cindy Sherman and Ellsworth Kelly. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

Morning Links: Magic Mike Edition

“I’ll admit, when I first saw ‘party in the garden,’ I hoped it had something to do with the Knicks,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “But this is the party in the garden [at MoMA].” [WSJ]

“After a two-year battle, a Brooklyn carpenter has beaten a $2,000 ticket for picking up a discarded TV antenna for Read More

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Deen and Steve Doocy on the 2012 'Fox and Friends' Christmas Special. (Getty Images)

Morning Links: Paula Deen Edition

“Artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei has released a heavy-metal single called “Dumbass’”—meant to reconstruct his 81-day detention in 2011, which was part of an overall crackdown on dissent by the Chinese government.” With video! [The Telegraph]

And Jonathan Jones argues that Mr. Ai is a “modern master in his moment.” He writes, “It’s like being the contemporaries of Beuys in the 1970s or Marcel Duchamp when he was calling that urinal art.” [The Guardian] Read More

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Morning Links: Havana Edition

Artist Tracey Emin: Critics Are Harsher Because I’m a Woman [Vanity Fair]

“Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s decision this month to return two stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to Read More

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Morning Links: Storage Edition

“A real-estate developer who collects contemporary art is building a new fine-art storage facility in Queens to rival spaces such as Christie’s Brooklyn storage facility, where art was damaged by flooding during superstorm Sandy.” [WSJ]

MoMA considers not tearing down the Folk Art building. [NYT] Read More