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Provocative Nat Turner-Inspired Portraits Fuel Debate After Their Removal
Following an employee complaint, Stephen Towns removed his paintings from his solo show at Rosenberg Gallery. The decision has since inspired some much-needed dialogue.
Essays
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Reflections on Asmara’s Modernist (and Colonial) Dream
It's hard not to question why Asmara was named a World Heritage Site, especially as the country is reeling from decades of hardship.
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Twenty-Nine Thoughts on Jasper Johns
He pushes back against the widely accepted view that the artist’s primary goal is formal innovation.
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Robert Hughes Is Not My Dad
An Australian writer contends with the contradictory legacy of his home country's most famous art critic.
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How Can Ecological Artists Move Beyond Aesthetic Gestures?
If art is to be relevant to the environment, it needs to move beyond an art context to engage with the land itself.
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Twenty-Six Thoughts on Robert Rauschenberg
MoMA's retrospective runs from stench and perfection to perfection and putrefaction.
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Reexamining a Pair of Colonial Portraits Reveals One of Boston's Most Prolific Slave Traders
The Peabody Essex Museum has owned the paintings of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Fitch since 1878, but only recently looked into their subjects' part in the transatlantic slave trade.
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How Coloring Books Can Teach Us About Diversity in Ancient Times
If we consider coloring books as pedagogical tools rather than amusing diversions, we can use the fad as food for thought.
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Telltale Signs of a Young Artist
The indicators that I would become an artist weren’t about drawing talent; they were about knowing I was special.
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Dispelling the Myths Around the Hobby Lobby Antiquities Case
The Hobby Lobby case brings up several vital issues relating to cultural heritage, theft, and war in West Asia, and many of our responses have so far been misdirected.
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Remembering My Friend Andrew Wyeth on His 100th Birthday
In the ebbs and flows of an art career, one learns to trust in other artists who lead by example.
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Selling Sticks and a Slap in the Face: Artists Intervene in eBay
For the project #exstrange, artists from around the globe disrupted eBay as a way of facilitating exchanges among strangers.