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What the Art World Doesn’t Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama

Avatar photo by Dexter Thomas 11 hours agoJune 1, 2023

A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.

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Are We Asking Too Much of Public Art?

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney May 25, 2023May 31, 2023

We want public art to interrogate social injustices, fill us with love and joy, and brush aside human flaws, but it rarely ever lives up to these expectations.

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It’s Time to Rewrite the Canon of Women Artists 

Avatar photo by Hall W. Rockefeller May 17, 2023May 18, 2023

Katy Hessel’s new survey of women artists leaves out men, but also falls short of offering a new take on feminist art history.

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75 Years After the Palestinian Nakba

Avatar photo by Yasmin Khan May 15, 2023May 16, 2023

P21 Gallery in London assembles an eclectic artist collective to commemorate and count the consequences of the Palestinian Catastrophe, 75 years later.

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How a Stolen Nepali Statue Found Its Way Home

Avatar photo by Emiline Smith May 10, 2023May 11, 2023

A long-lost Vajradhara sculpture that resurfaced in a Hong Kong collection highlights scholars’ responsibility to mediate between communities and the art market.

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The Dangerous Allure of the Royal Aesthetic

Avatar photo by Isabella Segalovich May 10, 2023May 10, 2023

The pomp and pageantry of King Charles’s coronation follows the playbook of authoritarian theatrics.

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Why We Never Visited Michael Heizer’s City

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Rebecca Uchill and Ana María León May 9, 2023May 10, 2023

We counted down the minutes until we hit the stretch of highway closest to the installation, but we didn’t stop.

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The Caste Bias of Tech Platforms

Avatar photo by Priteegandha Naik May 7, 2023May 5, 2023

From Twitter and Instagram to matchmaking apps, tech companies have helped modernize the caste system instead of dismantling it.

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Why Is The Met Gala Honoring an Islamophobe With Nazi Roots?

Avatar photo by Gürsoy Doğtaş May 1, 2023May 2, 2023

The Costume Institute is willfully ignoring Karl Lagerfeld’s bigoted views and his family’s concealed Nazi past.

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Arts Grantmakers Must Change Their Ways

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Lane Harwell April 28, 2023April 28, 2023

The nonprofit industrial complex in the US has failed artists. Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Lane Harwell of the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team suggest nine ways to change that.

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Why Depressing Art Is Good for You

Avatar photo by Tim Brinkhof April 25, 2023April 25, 2023

From Ilya Repin to Charlie Kaufman, artists who explore the darkest human impulses can give us hope and inspire us to be better.

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We Need More Nuance When Talking About Repatriation

Avatar photo by Patricia Marroquin Norby April 19, 2023April 19, 2023

Patricia Marroquin Norby, the Met Museum’s curator of Native American Art, reflects on the lesser-discussed everyday challenges of repatriation work.

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Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian
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Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch confronts the challenges of being Indigenous and female in the United States and Canada. On view in NYC.

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