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NEH Calls for Proposals for Trump’s Bizarre Sculpture Garden
After slashing hundreds of grants for cultural institutions, the agency is opening applications for the president’s widely questioned “National Garden of American Heroes.”
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Required Reading
This week: colonial photography through a Diné lens, Kikkoman soy sauce bottle design, Canadian nationalism on the rise, Australian twins become a meme, and much more.
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Art Green, Uncanny Painter of Chicago’s Hairy Who, Dies at 83
The artist made the familiar farfetched, infusing his work with a comic quality and threads of Surrealism that reimagined universal motifs.
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Trump’s Top Envoy Says Palais de l’Élysée Looks Just Like Mar-a-Lago
Steve Witkoff is the laughingstock of the internet for drawing parallels between Trump’s Florida beach club and the ornate 18th-century French palace.
Art Review
Galleries That Play the “Responsibility” Game
This commercial undertaking works hard to present itself with an institutional veneer, making claims that it “fosters a sense of shared responsibility” in the art world.
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The Trailblazing 20th-Century Photographer History Forgot
Consuelo Kanaga, one of the US’s first female photojournalists, counted Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, and Berenice Abbott as her peers.
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A View From the Easel
“This workspace allows the out of doors to come in.”
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66% of Americans Don’t Think Trump Should Control Museums
The new Reuters/Ipsos poll also shows that 86% of Democrats disagree with the administration’s takeover of cultural institutions.
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NYC Subway Mural Evokes Hilma af Klint's Mysticism
An abstract mural by feminist collective Hilma's Ghost draws from tarot archetypes and hero myths to honor the journeys commuters embark on every day.
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26-Foot Nick Cave Sculpture Heads to Michigan Sculpture Park
The artist’s bronze "Amalgam (Origin)" will join works by the likes of Auguste Rodin and Louise Bourgeois at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.
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Texas Schools Ban Lesson Over Exposed Nipple on Virginia Flag
“Nudity on a state flag is an absurd justification to censor a history lesson,” ACLU Staff Attorney Chloe Kempf told Hyperallergic.
Books
The Danish Women Who Made Modernism Radical
A new book invites us into the tight-knit circle of women modernists in late-19th-century Denmark through quietly subversive gestures; you’ll never look at a glove the same way again.