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Maria Guadalupe, an associate professor of political science, teamed up with Joe Salvatore, a theater professor who specializes in “ethnodrama” to examine gender bias in the 2016 election. For a piece of experimental theater, Her Opponent, they recast Hillary Clinton as a man and Donald Trump as a woman. It turns out audiences actually liked Trump as a brash woman and couldn’t stand a male version of Clinton, contrary to the expectations of the researchers. [New York Magazine]

This is so smart. Rather than demolish an aging midcentury modernist housing block on the outskirts of Amsterdam, NL Architects and XVW Architectuur came up with an award-winning proposal for the building. They restored the shell of the building and fixed circulation issues, and then sold individual apartments (which could be combined to make larger units) as affordable stripped-down shells that new owners could take on as DIY projects to renovate as starter homes based on their own liking and budget. This seems like a much more logical solution to the issue of aging affordable housing than the American approach—which was to implode hundreds of thousand of units of high rise housing and then hand the land over to developers. [Dezeen]

Elmgreen & Dragset caused a minor panic in Krefeld, Germany when their new exhibition suggested the town’s Mies van der Rohe Haus Lange had been sold to private owners. In reality, they’ve restaged the iconic villa as the home of a fictional family returning to Germany from the UK following Brexit. [artnet News]

This seems like a better business model than most young galleries have: L.A.’s ShowGrow is a combination marijuana dispensary and art gallery. [Los Angeles Times]

From a show about environmental damage at the Norton Museum of Art to a show about the US-Mexican border at L.A.’s Craft & Folk Art Museum, cultural institutions across the country are getting political this year. [The New York Times]

Turkish painter Zehra Doğan is being jailed over a painting. The painting is based off a photo of the town Nusaybin in ruins after a battle between Turkish security forces and Kurdish separatists. She’s being charged with producing terrorist propaganda. This is absurd. [Fair Press]

Thank you Jillian Steinhauer, for doing the one piece of reporting/criticism on the “Fearless Girl” Wall Street statue that is more than a Clickhole headline like “Wow!” or “Inspiring: Fake Girl in front of Fake Bull.” [Hyperallergic]

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