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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.
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We Should Think Differently About the Preservation of Racist Monuments
Today more museum professionals are considering what it could mean to exhibit defaced monuments.
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What We Lose if the Amsterdam Hermitage Closes for Good
Thanks to the pandemic, the museum may be on the verge of shutting its doors just when Europe needs its Russian ambassador more than ever.
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A Contested Chicago Monument to Native Americans Gets Caught in the Crossfire of Balkan Nationalisms
Any discussion of “The Bowman and The Spearman” would be incomplete without an understanding of the progressive, idealist politics behind Ivan Meštrović’s chosen style.
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Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions
Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.