The Year in Culture 2010 -- New York Magazine

The Year in Culture

What’s worth remembering from the past twelve months in the arts.

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Published Dec 5, 2010

Pop culture has become a riot of ambition. In 2010, its creators risked more, endured more, and combined more influences than at any time in recent memory: from Marina Abramovic’s 736 hours and 30 minutes without a bathroom break at MoMA to Kanye West’s epic new album (and the accompanying tweet-a-thon) to James Franco’s life as performance art. Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom sprawls like a highbrow nineteenth-century novel—filled with 21st-century intellectual flotsam. Vampire Weekend applies Afrobeat rhythms to ditties about grammar and beverages. read more [+]

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