Opinion
My Love Story With a Dentist in Gaza
We began our friendship with shop talk. Suddenly, being an artist and being a dentist didn’t feel so different.
Opinion
Opinion
We Can Do Better Than Just Museum Field Trips
Art museums should take their educational role more seriously, and offer more creative programming for schools and their students.
Opinion
Can Santa Fe’s Indian Market Free Itself From the Settler Gaze?
Despite its role as a hub for Native artists, SWAIA hasn’t entirely moved past its origins in White settler obsession with Native authenticity.
Film
Why Do We Expect Ancient Romans to Have British Accents in Movies?
Most of the objectors to Denzel Washington’s accent are men who think too much about the Roman Empire. Here’s how the accent has changed throughout cinema.
Opinion
DEI Initiatives Are Dying Down. Now What?
Tips for arts organizations on how to get it right through times of inequity and unrest.
Opinion
Lessons on Black Art Writing From Toni Morrison
Morrison reminds us to dwell in Black visions, to give ourselves over to them entirely, and to do so in language that does not plead for understanding.
Opinion
The Olympics Drag Scene Got Christian Art History Right
Critics of the opening ceremony betrayed their ignorance of Christianity’s pagan roots — and the real reason behind their ire toward the show.
Opinion
Why Native Artists Are Reclaiming the Whirling Log
The Diné symbol was suppressed for decades by a settler-dominated art market that conflated it with the Nazi insignia.
Opinion
Who's Left Out of the Frame in the Viral Trump Shooting Photo?
In the compulsive analysis of the former president’s image, we risk overlooking the mundanity of gun violence and its less mediagenic casualties.
Opinion
How Modern-Day Christian Iconoclasts Lost Their Heads
The vandal who beheaded Esther Strauss’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary in labor disregarded centuries-old depictions of the mother of God as just a mother.
Opinion
How Can a Small Bohemian Town Help Artists Stay Afloat?
Historic arts enclaves like Provincetown, Key West, and Taos, and American culture at large, lose when they fail to invest in artists and writers.
Opinion
Brooklyn Museum Is Complicit in Violence Against Protesters
No other museum in living memory has permitted the mass arrest of members of the arts community engaged in a non-violent assembly.