Art
Exploring the Politics of Masks Beyond COVID
Though masks are popularly conceived of as limiting expression, they allow their wearers to access a range of emotionality, of which the human face alone is incapable.
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News
The Smithsonian Museums Are Dropping Their Mask Mandate This Friday
Other major museums, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, still require visitors to be masked indoors.
Art
A Year in Masks
In the past year the face covering became a part of most outfits and sometimes a statement in itself.
News
Japanese Shop Sells Hyperrealistic 3D-printed Face Masks
As if 2020 wasn’t weird enough, a Japanese company is now selling hyper-realistic 3D-printed masks that allow you to practically wear someone else’s face.
Art
When a Drowned Woman's Face Became the Muse of Paris
The face of "L'Inconnue de la Seine" was a fashionable fixture of salons and studios, her enigmatic expression of a slight smile and closed eyes haunted by stories of her suicide.
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What a Show About Masks Might Really Be Disguising
Masks present a quandary. It's not so much what they're hiding that I wonder about, but what the camouflage or costuming is meant to produce in me.
Art
An Exhibition of 100 Masks Shows Humanity's Enduring Thirst for Transformation
Around 100 masks of every contorted grimace imaginable, both human and animalistic, are assembled on the top floor of the Rubin Museum of Art for the new exhibition Becoming Another: The Power of Masks.
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Reconfiguring The African Mask: From Artifact To Art Form
Whether sequestered behind glass in a museum or sold to tourists along Fifth Avenue, the African mask is an image from the non-Western world that we are all familiar with. Yet walking though the African art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [http://metmuseum.org] the other day, I felt some