In Brief
Milo Yiannopoulos's Inane Thoughts on Art Slashed in Heavily Edited Book Draft
A first draft of the far-right pundit's unpublished manuscript recently emerged in legal documents, and his editor's dismissive comments are delightful.
Kimono Wednesdays
Art
Join Us to Discuss #KimonoWednesdays and the Decolonialization of Museums #ArtTalk
In light of the recent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's "Kimono Wednesdays" controversy, we'd like to explore the issues of minority representation in mainstream US museums and who gets to decide how cultural artifacts are represented and presented to the public.
Opinion
Seeing Beyond "Kimono Wednesdays”: On Asian American Protest
When I heard that the Boston MFA was launching a dress-up social media campaign called "Kimono Wednesdays" based on a painting by Claude Monet, that a group of young Asian American protesters asked them to stop, that the MFA did and apologized, I thought it was an open and shut case.
Opinion
The Confused Thinking Behind the Kimono Protests at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently cancelled an event they had called “Kimono Wednesdays,” that, according to the museum, sought to engage people by arranging enhanced encounters with works of art.