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Victor Arnautoff's "The Life of George Washington" was painted at George Washington High School in 1934 under the Works Progress Administration. Recently, the school board voted unanimously to paint over it, becoming a contentious topic on public art preservation.
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Current museum expansions are hung up on the concept of size. Instead, could we rethink the “grow or die” museum mentality of the 1990s and 2000s?
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Racist incidents like the one that targeted school children at the Boston MFA are neither the beginning nor the end. They underscore the museum world's frequent failure to serve marginalized communities.
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After Spencer Tunick staged an action outside of Facebook's NYC headquarters to protest social media censorship, many pointed out its similarity to the work of feminist artist Micol Hebron.
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An art worker offers their take, saying: “We cannot hold those in power to account without a redistribution of that power.”
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A documentary at the 79th Whitney Biennial may detail horrors funded by the Whitney’s own chairperson Warren Kanders, but don’t applaud the museum for the self-criticism.
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I am not going to the 13th Havana Biennial because my struggle to achieve freedom of expression in Cuba, my defense of cultural rights, and my efforts to end political hatred among Cubans and defend the right to demonstrate in the streets are not limited to an event. It is my life mission.
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Community control of cultural institutions, which would replace board members, could reshape cultural life in the United States.
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In an absurd attempt to downplay the Democrat’s Green New Deal, a Republican Senator offers a VelociReagan.
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Several questions occurred to me when I read that a new art fair geared toward showing the work of recent Master Fine Arts graduates is scheduled to launch this November in New York City.
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Reportedly, the National Portrait Gallery's director told Julian Raven the painting was “too political,” “too big,” and "no good."
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While it is admirable that a group of artists has been able to be so monetarily successful, we have to ask: What is Meow Wolf doing for culture as a whole?