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This week, the scourge of immersive exhibitions, the popularity of anti-vax deathbed videos, the pregnant man emoji, Chomsky on Afghanistan, Met Gala commentary, and more.
Thinking About Art on the 10th Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
It seems like we broke the ice to a growing consciousness that the status quo isn’t going to work.
ICA Philadelphia Presents the First Major Retrospective on Ulysses Jenkins
Over 50 years of the artist’s video and media work on how images, sound, and cultural iconography inform representation is on view through December 30.
Insider Trading Scandal Hits NFT Industry
Nate Chastain, OpenSea’s head of product, was ousted on Twitter by a user who posted questionable transactions from his wallet.
Objects that Help Tell the Story of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s Romance
The 40-year relationship that unfolded between Toklas and Stein became the bedrock of Paris’s artistic avant-garde.
ArtYard’s Living Exhibition Unfolds in Real Time in New Jersey
Over the course of three months, the resident artists in Going to the Meadow will collaborate and create with a curated set of continually changing materials.
Women Artists Are in the Spotlight in West Palm Beach
Fifty works, all created by women, are brought together across time and media as the Norton Museum of Art reckons with the art world’s patriarchal past and present.
’bout time someone said it.
It occurred to me recently that ‘art’ as seen in the context of so many vaulted, security-laden settings is more about ownership than anything else – as if the modern version of the King’s storehouse of looted wealth, the Louvre for example, became an art museum; its curators, the treasurers, never intended their holdings to be accessible to everyone; not really. It makes no difference, it’s not yours and likely never will be. That’s the message.