The body positivity movement is an asset that Instagram seems reticent to put forward as the resource it is.
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How is This Possibly the Right Time for a Fabergé Show at the V&A?
So legendarily precious and complex are the Fabergé eggs that they have become a byword for insane expenditure.
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Why We Need Prizes for Digital Art
As acceptance of digital art grows, there is also a need to validate quality and recognize artists who explore radical ideas and achieve creative breakthroughs.
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Plans for a Billion Dollar College Dormitory Are a Strange Mix of Carceral and Utopian
The plans for Munger Hall may just be the most ruthlessly efficient way to house 4500 students.
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Repatriation is a Start, but True Healing for Benin Requires More
Equity should be discussed in the form of European and American institutions partnering with the Benin government to create sustainable museums.
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Why Frida Kahlo Still Isn’t a Great Woman Artist According to the Market
Greatness, in this new golden age of wealth and vanity collecting, is inextricably linked to money, selling prices, and auction results.
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Just like Museums, Libraries Aren’t Neutral
There are many structural inequalities baked into the Library of Congress classification system, contributing to the further marginalization of already marginalized groups.
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How Africa’s Cultural Institutions are Leading the Way in Audience Development and Research
Rather than engaging with Africa’s cultural sector through a singular lens, what if the world looked to it as a source of innovation and instruction?
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When “Art” Dies, the Community Will Thrive
Perhaps museums can’t be museums until we in the community tell them they are that.
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An Archconservative Magazine Discovers Afrofuturism at the Met and Is Not Pleased
Conservative critic Gilbert T. Sewall wants to make the Met great again.
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The Parthenon Sculptures Should be Repatriated Immediately
The principle that one misdeed deserves to be redressed before another, because it stems from a situation of greater violence, is wrong.
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What Do We Do with the Work of Immoral Artists?
Where should we “draw the line” between sacrificing great art and supporting artists who are predators and bigots?