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The Inner Worlds of Black Quilters
I am often reminded of the warmth of a quilt at my great-grandmother’s house, the weight of wool and polyester patchwork that dared you to try to break free.
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Processing the Unbearable, Imagining the Radical
To RISD’s graduating class, I say: The most necessary work comes from the willingness to stay in the discomfort of the open question.
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They Want to Control Our Imagination
A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago asked her students to imagine a way to help someone they might encounter. Leadership found that beyond the pale.
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We Must Protect South American Rock Art
Given the region’s abundant petroglyphs, why are there so few legal protections and only one World Heritage inscription?
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Society’s Repair Begins With Art
We must cultivate spaces with the capacity to hold another kind of cultural experience that forges a reintegration of art and life.
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The Art Market Post-Pollock
After spring's marquee auctions, we are led to believe that everything in our important art universe is doing just fine. It isn't.
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Fixing the Potholes in NYC’s Cultural Infrastructure
If “pothole politics” is about fixing what people experience in their daily lives, then cultural funding should follow the same logic: steady, predictable, and built to last.
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I'm a Chicana Curator. This Is Why I Removed Cesar Chavez From My Show
The decision to remove a portrait of the labor leader from “Chicano Camera Culture” at The Cheech was not one I took lightly.
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Genuflecting Before “Don Colossus”
Trump's new golden statue in Miami has been compared to the Golden Calf, but it's more akin to a Moloch idol.
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IDF Soldiers Hide From Our Gaze
Official portraits show Israeli soldiers turning their backs on the camera, ostensibly to protect them from prosecution for war crimes. The gesture is a tacit admission of guilt.
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What Artists Sign Away
Long consignment periods, moral rights waivers, and opaque "standard" contracts serve the institution more than the artist.
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The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.