Art in Odd Places’ public art and performance festival NORMAL is a clap-back to any appeal to returning to the previous status quo.
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How a New Nigerian Museum Can Help Repatriate the Benin Bronzes
Nigeria’s business leaders will have to give generously; politicians will have to put rivalries aside; and contemporary artists will have to embrace the project.
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Why Does Quebec’s Museum of Civilization “Own” Human Remains?
In 2016 I noticed an image of tattooed skin affixed to a wooden plaque. Today I initiate court cases against the Ministry of Public Security.
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We Should Think Differently About the Preservation of Racist Monuments
Today more museum professionals are considering what it could mean to exhibit defaced monuments.
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What We Lose if the Amsterdam Hermitage Closes for Good
Thanks to the pandemic, the museum may be on the verge of shutting its doors just when Europe needs its Russian ambassador more than ever.
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A Contested Chicago Monument to Native Americans Gets Caught in the Crossfire of Balkan Nationalisms
Any discussion of “The Bowman and The Spearman” would be incomplete without an understanding of the progressive, idealist politics behind Ivan Meštrović’s chosen style.
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Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions
Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.
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My Experience as a “Minority Intern” at a Museum in the 1990s
There were three “minority interns” at the National Gallery of Art in 1991. I was the “Hispanic” in the group.
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A Black Curator Imagines Otherwise
I almost lost my opportunity to curate the show I’d come to moCa Cleveland to create. But these times are different and I’m unlike anyone to ever work there.
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The Limits of Colorization of Historical Images by AI
Contrary to what you might think, a problem isn’t occurring because there are more white people in some historical photo dataset.
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Why We Need a Feminist Manifesta of the Blockchain
The blockchain signals a shift in our identity formation in the 21st century.
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Artists Breathe New Life into Archives
By cutting, reframing, and layering, artists, including Rodell Warner and Alanna Fields, encourage a re-viewing of the past.