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Black Art in Utah Highlights Systemic Racism in the Beehive State
"Black Refractions," a touring exhibition now at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, throws into vivid relief the state’s shameful record on race.
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Unfazed by the Pandemic, Frieze Aims to Carry On
In the middle of a pandemic that hit New York hard, Frieze returns to the city with an in-person art fair, aggressively pursuing making money.
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Why We Think About Art in a Time of Adversity
In launching Art at a Time Like This we felt an enormous responsibility in starting an art platform that responds to crises in the US and abroad.
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Why Did a Scramble to Expand Black Representation Have to be Preceded by Tragedy?
In times of racial upheaval, we tend to ask Black artists to contribute to the discussion. But when the news cycle shifts, the demand seems to wane.
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The NFT Market Feeds Our Obsession With Ownership
Much is lost when cultural forms are understood primarily through the lens of property ownership — whether they are expressed as physical objects or digital code.
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Stumbling Towards Repatriation
We need to make it clear to our museums that we do not want to walk around in galleries of stolen artworks.
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UK’s Threat to Punish Museums for Removing Colonial Statues Is Colonialism 101
The British government's new “free speech champion,” Oliver Dowden, has threatened museums with funding cuts if they remove controversial statues.
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Can Art Criticism Be Both Collaborative and Ethical?
What happens if we take up both Corinne Robins’s recognition of the necessity of critique and Adrian Piper’s vision of generative collaboration?
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How the Contradictions of Socialism Make Cuban Art Great
Is Cuban socialism a success or failure? Is Cuba frozen in time or on the verge of being overrun with McDonald’s? One field that displays the complexity and contradictions of Cuba is the arts.
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How Miami's Museum of Art and Design Censored Forensic Architecture and Retreated From Social Justice
In hiring me to curate Forensic Architecture's first US survey exhibition, the museum mouthed the words of social justice but with the realization that those words would preface consequences, it began to choke.
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Cuban Musicians and Artists Collaborate on Viral, Political Music Video
The “Patria y Vida” video is spreading like wildfire in Cuba and Miami, a sign of widespread discontent on the island as well as unity among Cubans.
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Ethics Recommendations Museums Can Implement Right Now
Museums and their stakeholders can start to address and fix systemic issues by implementing three basic transparency measures that put ethics into action.