Through rap music, performances, textile work, and curated assemblages and installations, the artist dissolves identity-based dichotomies.
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How Did Fake Antiquities End Up at a Presidential Library?
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was about to display “authentic artifacts” from the “Near East.” But something was immediately off.
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Call for Applications: Alex Brown Foundation 2024 Artist Residency Program
Located in Des Moines, Iowa, this residency for emerging and established artists includes studio and living space, a $1,000 monthly stipend, and more.
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An Iowa Museum Renowned for Its Pollock Emerges From a Flood With a More Inclusive Mission
At the newly opened Stanley Museum, formerly the University of Iowa Museum of Art, White artists like Jackson Pollock and Grant Wood are no longer the focus of its collection.
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Stanley Museum of Art Opens Homecoming, the First Show in Its New Building
This exhibition at the University of Iowa’s museum features some 500 artists, from works by household names like Pollock and Motherwell to art that has rarely, if ever, been shown.
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Locals Deem Main Street Sculpture of Nude Yogi “a Sickening Thing”
“There’s nothing sacred anymore,” said Peg Lowry, a resident of Ames, Iowa, in response to a new public sculpture on Main Street.
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The Story of an Installation in a Polluted River and Its Subsequent Removal
DES MOINES, Iowa — On June 27th, the third-worst flood in the history of Des Moines, Iowa’s Raccoon River, necessitated the quick and urgent rescue of “Wading Bridge,” the most recent installation by the New York-based artist, Mary Mattingly.
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Mail Art Bulletin: Sex & Skulls from Iowa
Mary Rork-Watson is the creator of the newest work to be featured on the Mail Art Bulletin. The Iowa-based artist explains on her website that her work is about: “Revisioning the lost, discarded and ordinary into original works of art.”
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Iowa’s Major Pollock is Saved!
Peggy Guggenheim’s gift to Iowa has been saved (for now), according to the Daily Iowan … On Monday, Rep. Scott Raecker, R-Urbandale, the head of the Iowa House Appropriations Committee, withdrew the controversial proposal, which would have forced the University of Iowa Museum of Art to sell the $140 million painting “Mural,” by Jackson Pollock …
