Opinion
When We Confuse the Artist's Muse with the Artist's Model
Our culture seems obsessed with the artist/model relationship, portrayed in countless movies and narratives as a relationship that is lustful and scandalous.
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Robert Gober Looks Into Our Heart of Darkness
In his new works, Gober pulled me into another world, one that was both illuminated by natural light and full of cold shadows.
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Special Edition: Under-recognized Art Histories
To understand contemporary art, it is necessary to investigate the connections that are sometimes omitted or undervalued in art history.
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NYC’s Racist Roosevelt Statue Is Gone, But Concerns Over Its Relocation Remain
Some have criticized the racist monument’s planned relocation to North Dakota, near land seized from Indigenous people.
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Art Classes Are Helping Transform Medical Education
Classes like Anne Willieme’s are part of the burgeoning field of medical humanities, which aims to tackle the disciplinary divide between art and science.
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Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer of Tech Art, Gets a Museum Archive
Schwartz was at the forefront of computer-generated art before desktops or the kind of software that makes it commonplace today.
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Beholding and Curating With Care
Curator La Tanya S. Autry shares a set of crucial questions she considers when curating images of anti-Black violence.
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Digital Exhibition Examines the Darker Side of Bananas
The banana's dominance and ubiquity has had serious and far-reaching implications for the region, engendering exploitative labor systems, climate change, and migration.
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How Does the FBI Art Crime Team Operate?
“[The art market] provides an opportunity for people to move money in a way that they can’t with other commodities," says FBI Special Agent Chris McKeogh.
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A Survey of Black American Portraiture Is a Revelation
Black American Portraits features over two centuries of artworks centering Black artists and subjects.
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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.
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After a Decade of Uncertainty, the Jewish American History Museum Emerges With a Bright Future
Weeks before the pandemic necessitated its temporary closure, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History filed for bankruptcy in hopes of keeping its doors open.