News
On Veterans Day, Revisiting Michael Rakowitz's Poignant Anti-War Monument
Modeled after Daniel Taylor, a soldier who served during the Iraq War, his Margate seafront sculpture condemns the UK government's role in the invasion.
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Smithsonian Takes Benin Bronzes Off Display, Considers Repatriation
The National Museum of African Art identified 16 objects from its collection with direct links to the British army’s 1897 punitive raid on the Kingdom of Benin.
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Taíno Activists Gather at Christie’s to Protest Impending Sale of Indigenous Artifacts
A petition urging the artifacts to be repatriated to the Dominican Republic garnered over 41,000 signatures.
Opinion
Facebook’s Hypocritical Guidelines Prevent Us Advertising our Suzanne Valadon Show
If artwork exists in some protected category, as Michelangelo’s “David” seems to, why then is a painting showing a female nude deemed “unacceptable”?
Art
New Mexico Artists Explore Creativity and Activism Through NFTs
Cryptoart is being generated by artists looking for something that the conventional art world can’t, or won’t, offer them.
Film
Princess Diana’s Return to the Pop Culture Spotlight
The ‘People’s Princess’ features in multiple documentaries, trendy fashion lines, prestige TV, and now a biopic starring Kristen Stewart. What’s behind the new Diana mania?
Opinion
How CODA and Sound of Metal Misrepresent Deaf Culture
Two recent films about Deaf culture have been lauded by hearing audiences, but set deafness and music at odds in superficial ways.
Art
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Photographs, Seen Closely for the First Time
In letters, O’Keeffe refers to her photos as “sketches,” a quick and precise way to get her ideas down.
Art
A Transgenerational and Intercultural Look at Abstract Painting
"At the root of these works is the issue of poetics — painterly and textual for Jablon, dynamic, multicolor geometry for Odita."
Art
Reunited for the First Time, van Gogh’s Olive Groves Reveal Secrets About His Work
An exhibition presents groundbreaking discoveries about van Gogh’s painting process and materials thanks to a years-long conservation and research project.
Art
How Much Syrup Can a Doughnut Leak?
Emily Eveleth’s paintings of doughnuts are lurid, funny, unsettling, sexy, off-putting, luscious, puffy, bawdy, and excessive.
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Legal Precedents or Reparations? Lawsuit Against Harvard May Decide Who Owns Images of Enslaved People
Tamara Lanier’s battle for the ownership of her ancestors’ images is forcing the law to contend with the the institution of chattel slavery in interpreting intellectual property parameters.