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This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum
It’s a story about power, leverage, and fear during the first Trump administration, and also about the potential for solidarity and love in the second.
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Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides.
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Juneteenth Is the Story of a Freedom Withheld
In the art world, as in America at large, spectacle is welcomed more readily than structural change.
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LA Museums Have Failed Undocumented Immigrants
In a county of over one million undoc+ individuals, why is "undocumented" a bad word in the arts sector?
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Donald Trump’s Cultural Revolution
The difference between this revolution and those in Germany, China, or Iran, is not of kind, but of degree, and only so far.
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To See New York’s Slavery Memorial, You’ll Have to Fly to Paris
A version of Barbara Chase-Riboud's inaccessible Manhattan monument "Africa Rising” is now on public display at the Jardin des Tuileries.
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We’re Not Your Pride Publicity Stunt
For many Black queer artists, Pride Month doesn't feel like a celebration. It feels like extraction.
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A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of Nope
The anonymous artist’s latest may have a personal touch, but it’s still another installment in what feels like a series of works stifled by surveillance and media fatigue.
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Let It Burn
For Black people, watching the Nottoway plantation go up in flames felt like witnessing a lie collapse under the weight of truth.
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The Fabricated Crisis of Art Criticism
The genre is more alive than ever, so why are many eager to pronounce it dead?
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Manufacturing "Black Fatigue" in the Art World
Behind the declining demand for Black portraiture, and the backlash against Thomas J Price’s Times Square sculpture, lurks a strategic campaign of erasure.
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Who’s Afraid of Successful Black Artists?
This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.