As a class, we spent a semester talking about museums without being able to visit a single one. Could this inability allow us to imagine different kinds of museums?
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Why the Edward Colston Statue Should Have Been Left in Bristol Harbor
The revolutionary imagery of its toppling has been replaced in public consciousness with a picture of its rigidly horizontal body in the museum.
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How the Labels in the British Museum’s Africa Galleries Evade Responsibility
Despite the British Museum’s active participation in work towards restitution, the current display and captioning fail to be forthright or responsible.
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Looking Back at the Mistreatment of Marvel’s First Gay Comic Superhero
Northstar was a disjointed golem of communal trauma, carrying the weight of 40 years of contradictory stereotypes.
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We Need to Implement Black Feminist Ideas in Arts Education
Juneteenth being a federal holiday and anti-racist pledges of allegiance ain’t gonna cut it anymore.
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Ageism in Museums: Everywhere and Nowhere
There is a dissonance between institutional support for public programs for older adults and a lack of recognition of ageism within the museum workplace.
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How the Venice Biennale Makes Life Harder for Working Venetians
Generations of Italians are stuck in precariato (‘precarious work’), unable to work year-round, start a family, or buy or even just rent a flat of their own.
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Small Museums Are Stealing the Show on TikTok
Although major museums worldwide are taking on TikTok, it’s the less-renowned museums that are winning big.
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How US Immigration Gets the “Extraordinary Artist” Visa Very Wrong
The O-1 visa application that demands documents, testimonials, and cash is a kind of gatekeeping that determines whether one is considered an artist at all.
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In Manhattan, a Makeshift Forest Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Imperialism
The location of Maya Lin’s “Ghost Forest” next to the Flatiron building evokes for me, a Filipina American, the legacy of the architect Daniel Burnham.
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What Happened to Electronic Civil Disobedience?
Why have works of net-based protest art been largely forgotten, and is there any merit in dusting them off today?
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How an Art Museum Betrays Its Social Class Bias
When I worked as a security guard at the Toledo Museum of Art there was no mechanism by which the frontline staff could help shape the museum’s content.