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Do I Have Imposter Syndrome, or Am I Just Faking it?
I simply must have it. Though if I did have it, I might just be fooling myself along with everyone else.
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Art
An Art School Started by Marc Chagall that Became a Modernist Wasteland
The Centre Pompidou examines the thrilling but lesser-known story of the People’s Art School, founded in 1918 by the painter Marc Chagall in his hometown of Vitebsk.
Announcement
The Manetti Shrem Museum’s Summer Season Features Artists Susan Swartz and Andrea Chung
The museum celebrates new voices with Swartz’s west coast debut and Chung’s first traveling exhibition.
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UFC Legend Conor McGregor Looks Chiseled in Uncanny Statue
A sculpture of the world-renowned MMA fighter by artist Aspencrow evokes Michelangelo and includes some astonishing level of detail.
Art
Glimpses of Aleppo in an Exile’s Vision of an Elegant, Eerie Realm
The mysterious promise of the old gates of Aleppo’s old town and its patchwork of faiths are woven through Kevork Mourad’s pictures of "in-between spaces."
In Brief
Disturbing Ads Warn of Uptick in Domestic Violence During the World Cup
The violence associated with professional sports doesn't limit itself to the playing field, as a new campaign by the UK's National Domestic Violence Hotline makes clear in a new series of ads.
Announcement
The Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition Setup Opens July 21
Join us as we celebrate the culminating work of the Bard MFA Class of 2019.
Art
Childbirth and Menstruation in Defiant Art by Latin American Women
It is interesting that so many works in the Brooklyn Museum show Radical Women refer to the one form of power that men cannot dominate.
Art
"The High Multicultural Court of Wisdom" and Other Utopias by Bodys Isek Kingelez
City Dreams at the Museum of Modern Art explores how Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez envisioned a future utopia through sculptures of imagined cities.
Art
AP World History Makes a Turn Toward Eurocentrism
The College Board’s recent decision to begin their curriculum for Advanced Placement (AP) World History at the year 1450 CE will omit millennia of global human history and may further support a Eurocentric view of the world within US high schools.
Art
A Sordid Story of FBI Oppression Told Through Spray Paint, Glitter, and Toys
This exhibition demonstrates Sadie Barnette’s genuine belief in the possibility of taking one’s time to look through one’s past, diligently, to find a political orientation that does not resent this past, or skip over it, but goes through it.
Art
The Question of Art's Relation to Racial Equity in Mississippi
A new initiative undertaken at the Mississippi Museum of Art wants to have "more conversations about race." I didn't fully understand the need for such a program until I visited the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.