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Decolonization: an Act of Independence, Not Benevolence
It’s clear: We need space for new narratives. But how far will we get if the space-making rests in the hands of the colonizers?
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FBI Found Over 40,000 Stolen Artifacts, Including 2,000 Human Bones, In an Indiana Home
Over a period of 70 years, Donald Miller unearthed cultural artifacts from North America, South America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Indo-Pacific regions. Now, the FBI hopes to return the objects to their rightful origins.
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The Latest Sign of the Apocalypse Is Glittery Dog Testicles
Introducing the latest dog grooming trend and harbinger of nothing good.
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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.