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Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?
Biological residue on or around an artwork may help tell an original from a fake, but the novel method is not without risks.
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As a Japanese American in LA, the ICE Raids Hit Home
I know what lasting trauma these violations cause as someone whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were unjustly incarcerated by the US government during World War II.
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The Met Finally Meets Asian Femininity on Its Own Terms
After an exploitative 2015 show, I was wary about being an academic “beard” for another exhibition in the guise of “revision.” Monstrous Beauty is a different beast.
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As ICE Raids Stir Fear, My LA Neighborhood Perseveres
In my home in Downtown LA, I see artists and activists continuing to rise up.
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This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum
It’s a story about power, leverage, and fear during the first Trump administration, and also about the potential for solidarity and love in the second.
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Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides.
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Juneteenth Is the Story of a Freedom Withheld
In the art world, as in America at large, spectacle is welcomed more readily than structural change.
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LA Museums Have Failed Undocumented Immigrants
In a county of over one million undoc+ individuals, why is "undocumented" a bad word in the arts sector?
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Donald Trump’s Cultural Revolution
The difference between this revolution and those in Germany, China, or Iran, is not of kind, but of degree, and only so far.
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To See New York’s Slavery Memorial, You’ll Have to Fly to Paris
A version of Barbara Chase-Riboud's inaccessible Manhattan monument "Africa Rising” is now on public display at the Jardin des Tuileries.
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We’re Not Your Pride Publicity Stunt
For many Black queer artists, Pride Month doesn't feel like a celebration. It feels like extraction.
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A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of Nope
The anonymous artist’s latest may have a personal touch, but it’s still another installment in what feels like a series of works stifled by surveillance and media fatigue.