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Bye, Bye, Bandanas: LA MOCA Visitors Must Wear Medical-grade Masks
Those who want to visit the museum muse have a surgical, KN95, N95, or KF94 face mask.
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Required Reading
This week, another Benin bronze is returned to Nigeria, looking at the Black Arts Movement in the US South, Senegal's vibrant new architecture, why films are more gray, and much more.
Art
Jiha Moon’s Artistic Breakthrough
It is precisely Moon's openness to using any source that makes her work flamboyant, captivating, odd, funny, smart, uncanny, comically monstrous, and unsettling. And, most of all, over the top.
Art
Exhilarating Dreamlands of the Unconscious at the Met Museum
Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show.
Art
Challenging the Perception that Photographs Present an Objective Vision
Imagining the photographic print as a singular art object.
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In Seattle, Staff Call for a Boycott in Response to Museum’s Reaction to Unhoused Community
Decolonize SAM says the museum is “putting property over people” by implementing harsh measures against the unhoused community in lieu of alternative efforts.
Art
Israeli Museum Suspended Operations After 47 Artists Ask to Remove Work
David Reeb's painting was removed due to political pressure from the local mayor, prompting backlash by other artists.
Art
The Magnificent Abstractions of Alma Thomas
Thomas was a major artist who in her lifetime was unjustly denied the acclaim she merited. This show is a brave beginning.
Art
The Mind-Bending Portraits of Chie Fueki
For years, Fueki has been quietly creating a singular body of mind-bending work that has never fit into the New York art world.
Opinion
Museums Could Help Families and Children While Saving Our Democracy
What if every regional museum could offer free or subsidized daycare that taught secular values about participatory democracy and culture?
Opportunities
Amnesty Launches Contest for Artists to Demand Closure of Gitmo Detention Camp
Despite international condemnation, and the promises of US Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden to shut down the facility, the detention camp continues to operate.
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The Smithsonian Is Still Collecting Material Connected to the January 6 Capitol Attack
Since January 7, 2021, banners, signs, flags, and stickers have been donated by members of “Operation Clean Sweep,” a concerted effort to clean up the post-riot site