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Frieze Is Selling a Fantasy of Los Angeles
All the LA-centric promotion of Frieze has bled into the fair, and flattened everything into commodity.
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Art Spaces Should be More Mindful About Their Use of Strobe Lights
Assuming that critics and curators are not part of the population sensitive to strobe lights leads to a lack of accommodation that reinforces ableism and exclusion within the art world.
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The Neoliberal Hypocrisies of Ivanka Trump Vacuuming
The fact that Ivanka Vacuuming has successfully annoyed America’s First Oligarchy is enough to forgive some of this disappointing symbolism.
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Museum of the Bible Has Jumped the Ark
Do we really have to explain to the CEO of the Museum of the Bible that archaeologists didn’t find the rock that killed Goliath?
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How Criticisms of Roma Have Revealed American Biases
Assuming an audience’s prior knowledge of Mexican culture and major events is a powerful way of centering the Mexican experience.
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Second Lady Karen Pence to Return to Teaching Art at Homophobic Christian School
If you really want to get in there and build future generations of toxicity, fear, and violence, you have to start while they’re young!
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A Sanrio Crocodile Called "Big Challenges" Is the 2020 Mascot We All Need
We have big challenges and we need Big Challenges!
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Has the Salvator Mundi Really Gone Missing? Unpacking the Latest Conspiracy Theory
Keeping track of the world's most expensive painting has become more difficult since it transferred into Saudi hands. One conspiracist claims the painting is involved in a money laundering plot tie Trump-Russia scandal.
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Most Shared Tweet of All Time Costs Billionaire Art Collector Almost $1M
Yusaku Maezawa posted a tweet offering 100 random people 1 million yen (~$9,200) and it garnered almost 5.5 million retweets.
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A Catastrophe: Feline Slashes 17th-Century Work of Art
Antique painting specialist Dr. Bendor Grosvenor was repairing a painting by John Michael Wright, when his cat attacked, leaving him with additional repairs costing as much as the painting itself.
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When a Lynching Memorial Becomes a Photo Opportunity
A reflection on the commodification of Jim Crow's violence through public memorials.
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Committing to Anti-Racism in Galleries of European Art
Amidst a surge in white supremacist violence across the country, the time has come to reconsider how American museums are presenting European art.