Art
Aboard a "Life-Size" Replica of Noah's Ark in Rural Kentucky
WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. — What’s 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, 51 feet high, and made of 3.3 million linear feet of wood?
Essays
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In the Shadow of the DNC, Art About Politics vs. Political Art
PHILADELPHIA — It should come as no surprise that there are many ways one can experience art.
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Can Abstraction Help Us Understand the Value of Black Lives?
ST. LOUIS — Several months ago, I made the commitment to be away from New York City, my home and native land, for the duration of this summer.
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Pokémon Go Is a Massive Art Happening and You’re All Invited
Sure, here's the update: "It’s been two weeks and there are 35 million search results for Pokémon Go on Google and 9.5 million daily active players in the United States — which means, in terms of users, the augmented reality game has already surpassed its closest competitor, Candy Crush.
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Art Is Genderful! An Artist's Notes on Navigating a Sexist System
A lot of people mistake my work for a man’s.
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Why Teach Business to Artists?
To anyone who receives news alerts, the world might seem to have fallen apart in a wave of terrorist attacks, failed coups, wrongful killings, police assassinations, and accidental withdrawals from European coalitions, to name a few.
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Street Art Is a Period. Period. Or the Emergence of Intermural Art
Let’s start off with a clear contention. Street Art, as I see it, is a period.
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An Art Historical Perspective on the Baton Rouge Protest Photo that Went Viral
This past Saturday, protesters gathered in Baton Rouge to protest the death of Alton Sterling, an African American man shot to death while being arrested by white police officers.
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Remembering Curator Neery Melkonian, Champion of Diasporic Politics and Aesthetics
In September of 2009, Neery Melkonian and I went on a ghost chase.
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To Cite or to Steal? When a Scholarly Project Turns Up in a Gallery
It's early enough in my career that I still get a thrill whenever I see my work shared online.
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A Photographer Who Captured the Complexity of Black Life in Lyrical Ways
Louis Draper resisted labels. He knew that they could confine, like boxes, but much worse, they might be like prison cells: impossible to escape.
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After Orlando, a Local Artist Works to Overcome the Numbness
ORLANDO — On the morning of June 12, my phone was blowing up.