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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.

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Modeling Artistic Resistance in the Era of Trump

We are artists not just by the objects we make, but by the communities we build, the work we advocate for, and the activism in which we participate.