Opinion
An Exhibition That Lets You Smell and Taste the Beauty in the Paintings
Bagh-e Hind began with the question: Is it possible to recontextualize historical South Asian paintings and objects through lyrical, olfactory interpretations?
Opinion
Opinion
Why the Art Institute of Chicago's New Docent Program Faces Whitelash
In September when the Art Institute of Chicago announced that the current docent program would be dissolved, the backlash was swift.
Opinion
Facebook’s Hypocritical Guidelines Prevent Us Advertising our Suzanne Valadon Show
If artwork exists in some protected category, as Michelangelo’s “David” seems to, why then is a painting showing a female nude deemed “unacceptable”?
Opinion
What Are We Missing in the Debate Around NYC City Hall's Jefferson Statue?
The sculpture was commissioned by the first Jewish commodore in the US Navy, Uriah Phillips Levy, who faced anti-Semitism throughout his naval career.
Opinion
How CODA and Sound of Metal Misrepresent Deaf Culture
Two recent films about Deaf culture have been lauded by hearing audiences, but set deafness and music at odds in superficial ways.
Opinion
The Age of Too Much Museum Storage Must End
With growing calls for repatriation of colonial era objects and against illegal trafficking of antiquities, hiding them away from public view in a chamber of secrets is doubly unethical.
Opinion
The Problem With Exhibitions About "The Times We Live In"
The noble ambitions of these shows doom them to be listicles, box-ticking exercises struggling to meaningfully speak to the issues of our sociocultural moment.
Art
Reimagining Queer Presence in Grand Museum Rooms
A commitment to trans subjects, and their queer communities, is manifested as a holding environment made approachable by our concern, grounded in intimacy and legacy, enfolding any viewer who will stop, listen, and receive love.
Opinion
Why the Elgin Marbles Should Not be Returned to Greece ... Yet
To do so before they have returned the Maqdala treasures and the Benin Bronzes and the Easter Island statues and the Maori heads, before a coherent set of precepts for decolonization has been articulated, would affirm the wrong principle.
History
What Frank Lloyd Wright Can Teach Us About Comfort in the Office
Over a century after Wright designed a workplace that borrowed features from the home, designers are at it again, but who does a homey office really serve?
Opinion
Did Judy Chicago Just Troll Us?
Nowhere in the museums’ advertising blitzkrieg for the performance were we told to bring our wildfire-season masks as well as our covid masks, and covid masks don’t prevent smoke inhalation.
Opinion
An Open Letter to Piotr Bernatowicz, the Director of the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Art
Mr. Bernatowicz, in your introductory text you talk about the need for honesty, the disease of hypocrisy, overreaching governments. You do not fulfill a single one of your own ideals.