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In Manhattan, a Makeshift Forest Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Imperialism
The location of Maya Lin’s “Ghost Forest” next to the Flatiron building evokes for me, a Filipina American, the legacy of the architect Daniel Burnham.
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What Happened to Electronic Civil Disobedience?
Why have works of net-based protest art been largely forgotten, and is there any merit in dusting them off today?
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How an Art Museum Betrays Its Social Class Bias
When I worked as a security guard at the Toledo Museum of Art there was no mechanism by which the frontline staff could help shape the museum's content.
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Why We Can't Abandon Our Efforts to Revitalize NYC Culture
In my work for the CreateNYC Cultural Plan, a set of recommendations and action plans for the sector, one lesson rises to the top: Don’t abandon the process.
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How Women Artists Have Been Marginalized in the Blockchain Discourse
These women artists have been developing the creative possibilities within blockchain technology since the beginning.
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We Don’t Need More Temporary Exhibitions of All Women Artists
This curatorial approach is self-defeating in furthering a feminist art historical discourse.
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Watching Our Ecosystem Slowly Lose Color
There is a desire to cover up ecological degradation through artificially adding color, which constitutes a kind of denialism.
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Monet Was Such an Influencer
Pretty much all of the Impressionists fit the Insta mold. They mastered capturing the individual elements that could inspire envy and endless imitation.
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What’s Causing the Current Wave of Transphobic Panic in Italy?
The introduction of an anti-discrimination bill, the Zan Bill, is now generating a venomous climate and passionate demonstrations around the country.
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The Financial Reasons for Abolishing Museum Boards
My investigation into the financial realities at the Whitney Museum following the controversial Tear Gas Biennial made me realize nonprofit endowments are not doing okay.
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Who Bears the Steep Costs of Ethnic Fraud?
The issue that gets lost in ethnic fraud cases is how they require the participation of the mostly White cultural and academic institutions who hire them.
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What Do Dale Chihuly’s Sculptures Tell Us in Postcolonial Singapore?
Make no mistake about it: besides being a temporary escape, the Chihuly exhibition is an extension of US-Singapore diplomacy.