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How the Museum Is Like a Prison
The Walls Turned Sideways exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston implicates the museum as existing in the same landscape of money and power as the prison.
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In the Event of an ICE Raid, Please Follow These Signs
Created by artists Jenny Polak, the ICE Escape Signs are designed to jolt US citizens into realizing the challenges the undocumented face on a daily basis.
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Confronting the Fears Detained Immigrants Face in the US
CHICAGO — On a grassy island surrounded by several roads at the center of Chicago’s Logan Square temporarily sits Jenny Polak’s “Mobile Speakers’ Podium for Citizens and Non-Citizens,” a creamy-white structure that at first glance looks like a miniature club house.
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Honoring US Freedoms Through Dissent: Interview with Dread Scott
The artist discusses his desire to engage, America’s relationship to freedom of expression today, nationalism, and the lack of critical discourse around his work.