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Christo, Trump, and the Art World’s Emptiest Protest Yet
Christo has abandoned a project that he and his late collaborator and wife Jeanne-Claude spent decades fighting for, ostensibly as a protest against President Donald Trump.
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Let’s Use the Art Strike to Hold Cultural Institutions Accountable
The action invites us to commit to challenging our institutions to resist Trumpism and combat the conditions that allowed its emergence.
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Why We Should Acknowledge the Art Connection of Trump's Education Pick, Betsy DeVos [UPDATED]
DeVos's son Rick created ArtPrize, which her and her husband's foundation funded in its initial year.
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More Screens, More Knowledge: Testing the Detroit Institute of Arts' New Augmented Reality App
The guide, Lumin, offers museumgoers an opportunity to look closer and, by providing critical context, expand their understanding of a given art object.
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Why an Art Strike? Why Now?
The time for thinking about how the imminent political shift will impact the lives and livelihoods of artists is upon us.
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A Painting Censored by GOP Lawmakers Deserves to Be Seen
A high school senior's painting of a protest scene has become the subject of a controversy since it was hung (and removed, and re-hung, and re-removed, and re-re-hung) at the US Capitol, but nobody is looking at it closely enough.
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Art After Trump: A Wish List
The art world is part of the actual world. Let’s imagine and reflect the society we want to live in.
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When the "Brooklyn Artist" Is a Commodity
Happy holidays, Brooklyn artists: your livelihoods have been apotheosized into a singular, hot commodity.
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Art After Trump: Eschewing Empathy for Self-Care
As an artist, I want to invoke something you can imagine — or even better, have experienced — and then ask you to start applying that lived knowledge outwards.
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Should the Art World Strike on Inauguration Day?
Will the art world in the US close down on Inauguration Day? What will that mean? #J20
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A Polish Curator Is Fired in Berlin, Exposing Two Countries’ Political Blind Spots
Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska was abruptly fired, following growing political differences with her colleagues ever since Poland's right-wing party came to power last year.
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Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Protest
Public witness can’t really be found in a shout or an insult. It can only be found when we witness an openness between people.