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How Talking About Art Kept my Family Together During COVID
“Art is for fancy people,” my son Marc initially said. “We’re not fancy.”
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The Pandemic’s Silver Lining for Artists
With art fairs grounded and galleries temporarily or permanently closed, more and more sales happened directly from artist to buyer.
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Why Visiting a Museum Is Like Seeing My Friends in Jail
The development office thinks I love this museum. But no, I come to see the objects, just like I visit my friends.
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How Images Created by Algorithm Channel van Gogh
Jan Robert Leegte’s work demonstrates how today, as 150 years ago, low-res messages are meant to be experienced and enjoyed in the least amount of time.
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Rezoning Plan Will Destroy What Made Soho an Artists’ Neighborhood
Will New York wake up one day and discover that speculation has cannibalized its creative industries, which underpinned the desirability of the real estate itself?
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The Brontë Archive Needs to be Secured for Public Use and Made Accessible
Decolonizing the archive includes mobilizing students like mine to bethe decolonizers.
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An Indigenous Perspective on Frida Kahlo
Kahlo’s aesthetic reflects the vogue of her time: the mythologizing of a homogenized Indigenous past afforded by her proximity to whiteness and wealth.
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Welcome to the Museum of the Future
As a class, we spent a semester talking about museums without being able to visit a single one. Could this inability allow us to imagine different kinds of museums?
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Why the Edward Colston Statue Should Have Been Left in Bristol Harbor
The revolutionary imagery of its toppling has been replaced in public consciousness with a picture of its rigidly horizontal body in the museum.
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How the Labels in the British Museum's Africa Galleries Evade Responsibility
Despite the British Museum’s active participation in work towards restitution, the current display and captioning fail to be forthright or responsible.
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Looking Back at the Mistreatment of Marvel's First Gay Comic Superhero
Northstar was a disjointed golem of communal trauma, carrying the weight of 40 years of contradictory stereotypes.
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We Need to Implement Black Feminist Ideas in Arts Education
Juneteenth being a federal holiday and anti-racist pledges of allegiance ain’t gonna cut it anymore.