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What Public Art Might Look Like After the Pandemic
Our approach as an organization with 25 years of experience in producing digital community arts has been to reverse the power relations.
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Fortnite Turns Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Into a Sci-fi Nightmare
“March Through Time,” an interactive educational experience inside the popular online game, recreates the March on Washington, with embarrassing results.
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The Queen of England’s Inaccessible Art Collection
We owe this rare opportunity to visit the Royal Collection to the temporary closure of the Picture Gallery, where the artworks usually hang.
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The Missed Queerness of The Green Knight Adaptation
Instead of anachronistic models that already reassert themselves in modern society, we should be able to see on the big screen just how badass, freethinking, and intercultural the premodern world really was.
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Why We Should Not be Trading Human Bones on Instagram
We’ve encountered hundreds of people, selling human remains across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Etsy, and other online sites.
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Alice Neel Didn't Work Alone
Despite the size and scope of the Alliance, and the involvement of figures like Neel, the group has been virtually lost to art history.
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Facebook’s Censoring of Women's Bodies is Nipocrisy
As long as Facebook and Instagram maintain a policy that female nipples are offensive and male nipples are not, they get to decide whose bodies count as valid for public viewing and whose bodies don't.
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It’s Time to Commission a Memorial to Slavery at McGill University
The memorial should provoke questions such as: What are the implications for such a memorial for the descendants of the Black and Indigenous enslaved?
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Fun Facts I Learned from a Year of Producing No Garbage
We’ve all seen the zero wasters on Instagram showing off their mason jars full of a year’s worth of trash. But most people aren’t going to be willing or able to change their lifestyles to that degree.
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Looking at Chuck Close Through His Portrait of Bill Clinton
Something inside Clinton’s and Close’s psyche compartmentalized too much, echoing the grid of the portrait. Both inflicted far more harm than each realized.
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Why Connecting Legal and Medical Professionals to Art is Essential
I would argue there is no anti-racist practice without empathy, without the capacity to overcome bias and think deeply about the experience of others, and to treat them with care.
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An Open Letter Regarding Anti-Blackness in the US Art Scene
My little gallery was smeared as the creators of an anonymous account that exposes racism in the art world and I soon became a pariah of the art world.