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A Portrait of Artist Dana Schutz’s Son Reframes Issues of Consent and Appropriation

Hamishi Farah's portrait painting apparently based on a photo of Schutz's son was intended as a response to her controversial painting of Emmett Till, "Open Casket."

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The Little President with a Big Mural in a Children's Detention Camp

President Trump's new detention center for immigrant children in Texas houses 1,700 boys in a former Walmart and includes a mural featuring his image.

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Kanye West Helped Create These Designs for Prison Chic Prefab Concrete Houses

After music and fashion, Kim Kardashian's husband is trying his hand at architecture via his new firm, YEEZY Home.

Visitors at the British Museum (photo by Mark Ramsay, via Flickr)

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Museums Should Consider Why They’ve Become Targets of Attack and Protest

A terror plot targeting the British Museum was recently thwarted, but the reasons why it became a target in the first place go far beyond the current political climate.

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The Supreme Court's Take on Cakes Is Nothing But Empty Calories for Creative Industries

How the court managed to craft an opinion for a divided country.

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An Open Letter to the Pit Gallery About Its “Glendale Biennial” and the Communities It Erases

More than 50 members of the Glendale art community and their supporters are calling for a boycott of the Pit.

Demonstrators from Save the Art – Save the Museum protest the sale of Berkshire Museum artworks at Sotheby's

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Amid Protests, Berkshire Museum Sales Bring Over $40M, and Trustees Want More

Sales of the most prized works from the museum's collection netted over $40 million, but more will hit the auction block if the institution pursues its goal of making $55 million.

The Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Belgium (photo by Fred Romero, via Flickr)

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Belgium's Biggest Art Prize Faces Important and Difficult Questions

The BelgianArtPrize became the focal point of a major controversy last month after announcing a shortlist of all white men for its 2019 prize.

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The Decline of American Empire in One Photograph

Can a single photograph symbolize a momentous geopolitical power shift? Perhaps.

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A Brief Lesson on Media Bias and Palestine

The ways in which media has abstracted the violence in Gaza brought back to mind an experience I had with an editor in 2014, when I tried writing about the Oakland-Palestine Solidarity Mural.

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Early Christians Would Have Found the Met Gala Gaudy

A historian of early Christianity with a specialty in religious dress considers how the Metropolitan Museum's recent gala and new Costume Institute exhibition might align with or offend early Christian sensibilities.

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Melania Trump Designed the Logo for Her "Be Best" Initiative

As if things weren't bad enough, the new logo for Melania Trump's initiative was reportedly designed by the FLOTUS herself.