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Discerning Photography's White Gaze
The three top winners of the prestigious Taylor Wessing Prize depict people of color, photographed by white photographers.
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Will Blockchain Create a More Transparent Art Market or Merely Entice More Investors?
This week, Christie's announced that it would pilot blockchain technology to record its fall auction season, but will the digital ledger system solve the market's transparency problems?
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Christie’s Top Lots Flop at Auction, Raising Speculation About Market Bubble
This years’s total sales were nearly half those of last year, which some critics say is a symptom of a bloated market with overly ambitious estimates. Even a Van Gogh painting went unsold this year.
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Bloody Hell, Marc Quinn Taps Refugees for Latest Bloody Artwork
A new project that is slated to appear in front of the New York Public Library's main branch on Fifth Avenue will contain the blood of refugees.
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A Coalition of The Willing: How Saudi Arabia and US Arts Institutions Partnered on a Cultural Diplomacy Offensive
Recent actions allegedly perpetrated by the Saudi Arabian monarchy, the brutal murder of a journalist, are nothing new, but have triggered an overdue interest in human rights among museum leaders.
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A Proposal to Improve New York City for Migrants and Working Class People
The artists and activists behind the People’s Cultural Plan offer actionable steps to precede the City’s Immigration Summit for Cultural Organizations.
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After a Director Is Fired and a Work of Art Paused, We Must Demand Social Justice
Controversy swirling around the firing of Kimberli Meyer and the pausing of a major work of art is currently distracting us from the conversation we need to have about art and social justice.
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Buffalo Residents Want a Remake of a Busted Bust of MLK
Over 6,000 people have signed a petition to uninstall the eight-foot-tall bronze monument, a jarringly imprecise monument to the iconic leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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New Video Indicates Banksy's Sotheby's Shredding Didn't Go According to Plan
Banksy II: Electric Boogaloo: "In rehearsals it worked every time."
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Jeff Koons's “Bouquet of Tulips” Will Be Planted Near the Petit Palais Garden
As the controversial piece of art has found a permanent home, Parisians weigh in on the moral vacancy of Koons' tribute to the Paris terror attacks, accusing it of clichéd American hubris.
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An Upcoming Sotheby’s Auction Replaces Banksy Hijinks with Gold, Gold, Gold
The auction house's upcoming October sale seems to have taken an aesthetic hint from President Donald Trump's interior decorator.
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Shifting From Catholicism to Camp, Met Gala Tries to Update Susan Sontag
This exhibition should feature a wax replica of Donatella Versace, RuPaul's extensive collection of wigs, and a sliver of John Waters' mustache — but I fear the Met's exhibition will be business as usual.