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Milo Yiannopoulos (photo by NEXTConf/Flickr)
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Milo Yiannopoulos’s Inane Thoughts on Art Slashed in Heavily Edited Book Draft

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 29, 2017January 5, 2018

A first draft of the far-right pundit’s unpublished manuscript recently emerged in legal documents, and his editor’s dismissive comments are delightful.

Posted inArt

Join Us to Discuss #KimonoWednesdays and the Decolonialization of Museums #ArtTalk

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic October 1, 2015October 14, 2015

In light of the recent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s “Kimono Wednesdays” controversy, we’d like to explore the issues of minority representation in mainstream US museums and who gets to decide how cultural artifacts are represented and presented to the public.

Posted inOpinion

Seeing Beyond “Kimono Wednesdays”: On Asian American Protest

by Ryan Wong July 23, 2015July 27, 2015

When I heard that the Boston MFA was launching a dress-up social media campaign called “Kimono Wednesdays” based on a painting by Claude Monet, that a group of young Asian American protesters asked them to stop, that the MFA did and apologized, I thought it was an open and shut case.

Posted inOpinion

The Confused Thinking Behind the Kimono Protests at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 17, 2015July 25, 2015

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently cancelled an event they had called “Kimono Wednesdays,” that, according to the museum, sought to engage people by arranging enhanced encounters with works of art.

Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian
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Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch confronts the challenges of being Indigenous and female in the United States and Canada. On view in NYC.

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