Opinion
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.
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We Should Abolish Museums Now
That is, we should remake and reimagine the museum.
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The Very Real “Motherhood Penalty” in the Art World
Cultural institutions are constantly draining their talent pool and dismissing this retention problem as a woman’s issue, when it is a structural failure.
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How a Property Tax Helped Transform the Detroit Institute of Arts
Our millage funding model, based upon responsiveness and accountability, is a successful paradigm that has sustained the DIA and benefitted our region.
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How the Contemporary Art World Repackages Orientalism
The depiction of Muslim-majority cultures as a foreign “other,” in contrast to Eurocentric values, occurs in museum art exhibitions and formal visual analysis.
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Troubling Earnings Disparities in the Arts
A new study examines earnings, debt, and financial support for entry-level arts administrators, finding troubling differences between BIPOC workers and their White counterparts.
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The Peculiar Crowds That Line Up to Touch Juliet’s Breast in Verona
Some time ago I found myself on a balcony in Verona staring down horrified as a laughing crowd surrounded a statue of Juliet, vying for the chance to touch her right breast.
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On Nostalgia and Colonialism on the New Oregon Trail
What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?
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Why We Need Unconventional Public Art Now More Than Ever
Art in Odd Places' public art and performance festival NORMAL is a clap-back to any appeal to returning to the previous status quo.
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How a New Nigerian Museum Can Help Repatriate the Benin Bronzes
Nigeria’s business leaders will have to give generously; politicians will have to put rivalries aside; and contemporary artists will have to embrace the project.
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Why Does Quebec’s Museum of Civilization “Own” Human Remains?
In 2016 I noticed an image of tattooed skin affixed to a wooden plaque. Today I initiate court cases against the Ministry of Public Security.