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, April 30, 2014

Daily Bafflements

Weiwei
Visitors to Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" installation in London, 2010 / Photo by Loz Pycock

• The cause-i-fi-cation and brand-i-fi-cation of the artist Ai Weiwei, from The L Magazine.

• In related news, the making of the cottage industry of posthumously-discovered street photographer Vivian Maier, from Chicago Reader.

• The Denver Post investigates why Colorado is over-medicating, and numbing, so many foster kids with psychotropic drugs.

• John McDuling revisits Steve Albini’s classic Baffler salvo from 1994, “The Problem With Music,” for Quartz. In the twenty years since Albini wrote that piece, has the Internet solved the problem?