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Why Depressing Art Is Good for You
From Ilya Repin to Charlie Kaufman, artists who explore the darkest human impulses can give us hope and inspire us to be better.
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We Need More Nuance When Talking About Repatriation
Patricia Marroquin Norby, the Met Museum’s curator of Native American Art, reflects on the lesser-discussed everyday challenges of repatriation work.
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Why Charging Admission to Rome’s Pantheon Is a Bad Idea
What is the excuse for charging people for something that was free for 1,900 years?
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Meet the Oligarch Who Wants to Build the World’s Tallest Jesus Statue
Armenia’s Trump-like business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan is determined to surpass Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer.
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We Wanted a More “Punk” Exhibition; The Museum Said No
Dereck Stafford Mangus reflects on Guarding the Art, an exhibition curated by security guards at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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The People of New York v. Donald Trump
In the courtroom, he released an uncanny, sociopathic remorselessness, and I was convinced firsthand of his deep and genuinely pathological confidence.
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Nancy Yao Will Not Be Missed
As president of the Museum of Chinese in America, she patronized Chinatown residents and supported their displacement. She is not fit to lead the American Women's History Museum.
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The Objectification of Yayoi Kusama
Louis Vuitton's collaboration with the artist raises questions of autonomy, agency, and objecthood.
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New York's BIPOC-Led Arts Orgs Are Grossly Underfunded
Proposed cuts to arts funding across the state would hit entities of color the hardest.
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I’m a Florida Drag Queen and I’m Scared
I’m truly at a loss for what to do for work and what kind of life I can expect to live.
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Met Museum Kicked Me Out for Praying to My Ancestral Gods
My danced prayer to looted Cambodian antiquities was too much for the New York museum.
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How Not to Artwash Saudi Arabia's Gruesome Human Rights Record
Under which conditions should an art museum ethically and responsibly do business with a repressive authoritarian government?