ST. LOUIS — Watching the Kelley Walker exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis unravel in the span of a few weeks, from what the museum promoted as its most ambitious installation to date — taking over the entire museum for the fall season — to becoming a disgraced footnote in contemporary exhibition making, it’s clear that what we have witnessed is a failure of the idea of the institution.
October 11, 2016
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A Black Woman Stands Out Among the Washington Color School Artists
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The Sordid Irony of a Pro-Trump Art Show
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A Two-Day Symposium Exploring the Role of Art and Politics in Urban Regeneration
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A Monument to Henrietta Lacks in Union Square and Other Art in Odd Places
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How a Tarot Reading Helped Me Talk About Climate Change
From headlines on ice cap conditions to research on biodiversity loss to terrifying descriptions of earthquakes yet to occur, the stories on climate change that reach us daily simply overwhelm.
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Meet the Second-Year Grads in UConn’s MFA Studio Art Program
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An Immigrant’s Dual Identity Manifested as a Divided Exhibition
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Paintings that Embrace the Impossibility of Painting
Jaya Howey takes painting very seriously, and so he finds himself in a very serious corner.
