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An Urgent List of Demands for Arts and Culture in the Face of NYC State of Emergency
The People’s Cultural Plan shares a list of demands in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including housing as a human right and free public education.
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Teaching Art Online Under COVID-19
As we individually scramble to stock our pantries and secure our loved ones, we are also figuring out how on earth to switch our hands-on teaching of studio-based art to virtual platforms.
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Bloomberg's Flailing Campaign Designs "Not a Socialist" Hats for Cap-italist Voters
Priced at $17.76, the pre-sale has already sold out.
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Who’s Responsible for Bad Reporting on Mummies?
From questionable race science to an inaccurate synthesis of a mummy's voice, scholars regularly contribute to providing poor understandings of the past.
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A French Collective Looks to Create Solidarity Among Art Workers
ART ON STRIKE was created in early December as trade unions called for protests against the government’s new pension scheme and has since been consistent in organizing protests and demonstrations.
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Penguin Random House and Barnes & Noble's Latest Diversity Initiative Failed Miserably
After backlash, the advertising ploy, which reimagined literary figures from Peter Pan to Frankenstein's monster as people of color, was canceled less than 24 hours after it was announced.
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The Art of Escalation: Becoming Ungovernable on a Day of City-Wide Transit Action
The action, dubbed J31, takes place today. The political group behind it outlines its goals of "free transit, all cops off the subways, an end to the harassment of vendors, performers, and unhoused people, and full accessibility of those with varying abilities."
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The New York Times's Embarrassing Presidential Endorsement Reality Show
The paper's supposed act of transparency around its endorsement of Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren was in fact a cynical attempt to drum up interest amid low enthusiasm.
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Judy Chicago’s Collaboration With Dior Is Beautiful, but Its Feminist Ambitions Are Questionable
Judy Chicago’s collaboration with the fashion house, a runway-installation called The Female Divine, includes a woven catwalk carpet and 21 banners embroidered with questions including “What if Women Ruled the World?”
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Nancy Pelosi Says the Arts Will Help Heal America, but They Can’t
Pelosi called the artists “something where we find our common ground.” However, clear political divides in the art world are more apparent than ever.
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Kehinde Wiley, Wangechi Mutu, and Kara Walker Upstage the Monuments Debate
With recent monumental commissions, the artists focus on the imagination’s role in accounting for the past.
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A Master Class in Frustration: Notes on Cunningham From a Critic and Dance Lover
I’ve studied dance nearly my whole life. I understand well the ways it can be inscrutable and transcendent. More often than not, the new documentary reveals how little dance is understood, and the pitfalls of trying to represent it.