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Pyaari Azaadi’s Epic Mission to Mend the World
Our relationship as artist and critic deepened in a profoundly unexpected way as we faced darkness together.
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Woman Accuses Kehinde Wiley of Sexual Assault in New Lawsuit
The complaint comes in the wake of at least four other public accusations against the artist, all of which he has vehemently denied.
Film
The Boys’ Club of Comedy and Its Machinations of Abuse
Implicit throughout Sorry/Not Sorry is the question of what it means for a White cis-het man to be “canceled,” and how claiming cancellation is often a route to reclaiming power.
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Pérez Art Museum Miami Latest to Suspend Kehinde Wiley Show
The Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Joslyn Art Museum also halted exhibitions in the wake of sexual assault allegations against the artist, which he denies.
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Two More People Accuse Kehinde Wiley of Sexual Assault
A petition urging the artist's galleries to investigate the allegations, which Wiley denies, has garnered hundreds of signatures.
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Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused of Sexual Assault
Joseph Awuah-Darko claims the portrait painter assaulted him on two occasions at a dinner in Ghana in 2021, allegations Wiley denies.
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MoMA Accused of Enabling Sexual Assault During Marina Abramović Show
An artist who performed nude in the 2010 exhibition claims that the New York museum "failed to take corrective action" against groping by attendees.
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Photographer Terry Richardson Sued for Sexual Assault, Again
He is accused of assaulting two women and displaying images of the alleged attacks in a New York exhibition.
Film
Netflix Documentary Exposes the Criminalization of Sexual Assault Victims
Victim/Suspect reveals the extent to which women are vulnerable to pressures to take the blame, and even serve time, for their own violent rapes.
Art
Art Heals: After a Sexual Assault, an Artist Paints Women Who Can’t Be Knocked Down
It took me years to find the language to tell this story.
Film
The Ethics of Depicting Sexual Assault in Film
The 1979 Quebecois documentary Mourir à tue-tête (“A Scream from Silence”) is a valuable but too overlooked feminist film.
Film
How The Nightingale Confronts the Violence of Rape
Director Jennifer Kent's latest film chooses to recognize the violence of rape as well as the viewer’s personal limits and starts a conversation about them.