Art
The Day When Harvey Milk Was Mayor
The first openly gay elected official in the nation had just one day in San Francisco's mayoral office in 1978, but the meaning of that moment will echo for generations.
Essays
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Repairing a Broken Planet Through Optimism and Design
Could you empathize better with a blade of grass if it had an email address? What about the entire ecosystem?
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Marion Greenwood and Anne Poor: The Women Artists of the WWII Art Program
It appears that the two women never met. Yet their paths often ran parallel.
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Why Splattering Eggs on a Museum’s Walls with Other Women Was So Satisfying
Sarah Lucas's performance at the Hammer Museum was satisfying, liberating even. Women are not supposed to express anger, and we sure as hell aren’t supposed to make a mess.
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A Reminiscence of Virginia Zabriskie, an Important and Undersung Art Dealer
Zabriskie, who passed away on May 7, created and ran two galleries for close to 60 years, one in New York and the other in Paris.
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There’s Ego Aplenty in Andres Serrano’s Exhibition on Trump
The "Piss Christ" artist's surprise exhibition of Trump memorabilia speaks to the darkest corridors of American idolatry, but does the artist speak for the nation or just himself?
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How Social Media Profiles Act as Bizarre Digital Gravestones
As more people die but their internet presences linger, we have to find ways to grapple with these documents of who they were.
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No One Owns Basquiat, Not Even Peter Brant
Brant has cogently influenced the legacy of Basquiat on several fronts, but the artist and his work remain gloriously defiant.
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Is Camp Still Camp if the Met Gala Makes It a Theme?
This year's Met Gala is named Notes on Fashion, in tribute to a Susan Sontag essay. But Sontag also wrote that "To talk about Camp is to betray it."
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Black American Cinema of the ’90s Was Filled with Promise
Revisiting the movies made by Black American filmmakers, which could only really be fully appreciated decades later.
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The Radical Proposition of Dan Robbins
Andy Warhol was fascinated by the concept that an image that could be reproduced in millions of versions, while Robbins fabricated this concept. Big difference.
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A New Trend Among Superhero Movies: The Villains Are Right
The villains of movies like Black Panther and Infinity War pose a threat to the status quo, and their motivations for doing so are understandable or even inarguable.