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All-Women Show Considers Becoming a Bathroom to Exclude Male Visitors
Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is considering turning it into a toilet — or a bible study.
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A View From the Easel
“Working in a space that is somewhat detached from the confines of time allows me to create and solely place my focus on my art.”
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Art Alluding to Pro-Palestine Slogan Nixed From Miami Beach Display
Hundreds signed a letter in support of Khánh Nguyên Hoàng Vũ after Oolite Arts removed their work, which referred metaphorically to the phrase “from the river to the sea.”
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Providence College Cancels Exhibition Over "Anti-Catholic" Artwork
Artist Shey "Ri Acu" Rivera Ríos has received an outpouring of support from faculty and students after their work was deemed “sacrilegious.”
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Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary
An exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York shows that lexicographers are just like us: petty, creative, and political.
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Pratt MFA Photographers Turn Landscapes into Critiques of Power
The students put their own spins on landscape photography to coax out questions of race, power, sexuality, and sustainability.
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Workers at Maryland’s Glenstone Museum Move to Unionize
Staff at the private contemporary art museum, founded by billionaires Mitchell and Emily Rales, say they want fair wages and an improved work environment.
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Lauren Lee McCarthy Swaps Stories of Saliva and Surveillance
Bodily Autonomy takes advantage of humor and hyperbole to demonstrate a very real world in which biosurveillance is prevalent overtly and covertly.
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Yinka Shonibare’s Patterns of Decolonization
In a gallery such as Serpentine, defined by both Britishness and blue-chip status in the art world, how much can categories be suspended?
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The Anti-Spectacle of the Black Avant-Garde
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style considers the political utility of Black abstraction and related forms to refute false narratives of progress.
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Bard College to Get Massive New “Keith Haring Wing”
The late artist left a legacy at the school when he gave a lecture in 1981 and drew one of his iconic motifs on a wall.
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Ecological Crisis Echoes Through the Church of San Lorenzo
Restor(y)ing Oceania provides a powerful sense of the devastation faced by Pacific Islanders — and the ecosystems that may soon be lost.