Interview

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A Museum Architect Sees Himself as a Matchmaker Between Artists and Art Lovers

Kulapat Yantrasast, who is designing the expansion for San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, prefers his museum designs to "take a backseat" to the art and visitors.

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Finding Joy at the Carnegie International: An Interview with Curator Ingrid Schaffner

The Carnegie International may be the oldest biennial in North America, but this year's curator is trying something new.

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UCLA Study Holds Smithsonian Accountable for Better Institutional Latino Representation

A new study evaluates Latino representation across the institution. One of the authors, Chon Noriega, discusses the results and why they are indicative of a widespread problem in the art world.

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Images of Truth from Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony and What They Mean

The images emerging from the Christine Blasey Ford hearing tell us a lot, but what?

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Contemporary Arab Cinema Series Looks Past Headlines to Realities of the Region

Opening Saturday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, ANA features a selection of movies reflecting the political and social realities of the Arab world, from Palestine to Tunisia.

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"Being Born Black in America Is a Political Act": An Interview With Senga Nengudi

In advance of her first retrospective outside the US, avant-garde artist Senga Nengudi discusses her emergence onto an international stage after a long career.

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Black Feminist Literature at the NY Art Book Fair: An Interview with the Free Black Women's Library

Artist and librarian OlaRonke Akinmowo has collected over 1,000 books written by Black women to assemble the interactive biblio installation.

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At This Year’s São Paulo Biennial the Curator Prioritizes Feeling Over Discourse

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro discusses the impact of rejecting overwrought political themes in a show that welcomes everyone to slow down and focus on their own experience of the art.

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Curators Debate the Pros and Cons of All-Women's Art Shows

In the wake of #MeToo, all-women's art shows have taken on new significance. But whether such shows are an effective strategy for achieving gender equity in the art world is still up for debate.

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How a Political Sociologist Fell into Photojournalism After a 1980 Trip to Iran

Following her initial trip, Randy Goodman returned to Iran multiple times, shifting her focus to the many women she encountered.

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An Afrofeminist Project Uses Technology to Empower Marginalized Communities

NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism engages Black womanhood and technological possibility, rejecting the marginalization of people of color in the scientific realm.

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Queer Identity in the MeToo Movement: A Conversation with Emma Sulkowicz

Emma Sulkowicz stood up against rape culture three years before the Harvey Weinstein story broke, but most articles about "Mattress Performance" erased the artist's queer identity. Why?