Opinion
Everything Is Not Fine in the Art World
Auction headlines offer a picture of health that hides a body in crisis.
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Art Market Reporters Are Getting It All Wrong
The worst of the current market decline is not the closure of major galleries. It is the dozens of younger galleries that have gone under in the past three and a half years.
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Why I Joined the Artists Behind Fall of Freedom
What began as a conversation among a handful of artists has grown into a decentralized creative action, spanning more than 600 events across the country.
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Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
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Will Jeff Bezos Ruin The Met’s Costume Institute?
Sponsored by the billionaire, its upcoming fashion show will “reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.” Groundbreaking!
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The Algorithmic Presidency
Just as 20th-century fascists deployed radio and film, today’s ideological descendants use memes, social media, and above all, artificial intelligence.
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The Art School Debt Trap
MFA programs are marketed as gateways to success. The fine print tells a different story.
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The Creative Essence of Zohran Mamdani's Ascent
The sentiments that drove his inspiring campaign should be familiar to any artistic soul.
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Why I’m Voting for Zohran as an Art Worker
Mamdani’s campaign is one of the most significant political gatherings of artists and creatives of our time. With sustained organization, it can be a blueprint.
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Mount Rushmore Is Not My Monument
For a century, our connection to the Black Hills has been disrupted by this eyesore and those who flock to a place that we see as our relative, our grandfather and grandmother.
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The Tackiness of Evil
More than a testament to his tastelessness, Trump’s demolition of the White House tells the American people: I can do whatever I want with the past.
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Koyo Kouoh’s Final Lesson on Pan-African Solidarity
After the curator’s death in May, an artists’ gathering in Nairobi proved that transnational solidarity today must be built on a commitment to an interdependent future.