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Bask in Flower Arrangements and Make Sustainable Sculptures at MAIDEN LA
The inclusive art event accepts all projects submitted — this year, it is presenting around 75 artists, collectives, curators, and organizations.
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One of Black Southern Art’s Greatest Advocates, William S. Arnett, Dies at 81
Through his scholarly and curatorial work, Arnett aimed to amend the conventional history of artmaking in the United States to center the significance of formally untrained Black artists.
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How Photographers Have Captured War and Unrest in Lebanon
Lebanon Then and Now at the Middle East Institute creates a dialogue between two generations of Lebanese photographers.
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Sorry/Not Sorry: How Viewers Express Judgment by Touching the Art
Anyone who deliberately damages art in a museum is regarded as under a delusion, either due to mental illness or a failure to perceive the nature of what they’re doing. But in reality, people touch art all of the time.
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Mea Culpa
There are things that I have failed to clue into that continue to make me wince when I think of them. Things that force me to ask “How could I have missed my cues so completely?”
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Assessing My Critical Adjustments and Changing Perspectives
Even if we believe in certain unspoken art criticism criteria that are involuntary but formed and informed by extended looking, nothing can be proved. We can always be wrong.
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Not So Funny Art-World Gossip
When I had to do one of the most difficult things in my Artillery career, I felt like I made a huge mistake: I fired my gossip columnist, Mitchell Mulholland.
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Is That How You Pronounce ... ?
It’s embarrassing admitting this, but in looking back over my many mistakes operating in the art world, some of my most egregious errors regard the names of the people populating it — how easy it is to get some of them wrong.
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Hey, Nobody’s Perfect!
I’ve never read something by one of my peers and thought 's/he’s mistaken!' Although I have often disagreed. Whose mistake is that? It’s not the writer’s.
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Being a Critic on the Outside Isn’t Actually a Bad Place to Be
My biggest regret is that I tried a little too hard to fit in when I first began writing art reviews in 1977.
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Sunday Edition, Mistakes: 😬 From Oversights to Missteps ❌
Errors are the focus of this edition, as writers Lucy Lippard, John Yau, Robert Storr, Karen Wilkin, Kimberly Bradley, Tulsa Kinney, and Erin Thompson offer takes on being wrong.
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Required Reading
This week, Ava DuVernay interviews Angela Davis, newly declassified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, poking fun at wealthy Brooklyn moms, and more.