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Posted inOpinion

Looking at Chuck Close Through His Portrait of Bill Clinton

by Daniel Larkin August 25, 2021August 25, 2021

Something inside Clinton’s and Close’s psyche compartmentalized too much, echoing the grid of the portrait. Both inflicted far more harm than each realized.

Posted inNews

Former Houston Museum Director Accused of Sexual Harassment

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia September 16, 2020November 5, 2020

After anonymous accusations against Bill Arning surfaced online, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston confirmed that an investigation into the director’s behavior resulted in his separation from the museum in 2018.

Posted inFilm

In The Assistant, Being Manipulated as a Woman Is a Matter of Course

by Susannah Gruder January 31, 2020January 31, 2020

Kitty Green’s latest film is as much about societal acceptance of sexual misconduct as it is about the indignities that many workers face in the office, especially younger women.

Posted inOpinion

The Pervasive Power of Male Privilege at America’s Elite Universities

by Nancy Bowen September 10, 2018

Institutions have hired men with predatory reputations despite complaints from women students and faculty. All because women haven’t had a strong enough voice in the system.

Posted inOpinion

When Famous Academics Would Rather Condemn #MeToo Than Support Queer Victims

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 28, 2018August 29, 2018

The seeming inability of rigorously trained, highly educated professors to identify what should be an obvious example of abuse on the part of Avital Ronell signals a fatal flaw in academia.

Posted inNews

School of Visual Arts Removes Two Professors Accused of Improper Behavior

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 8, 2018May 10, 2018

The instructors, both from the film and animation department, were the subjects of recent complaints filed by students.

Posted inNews

Photographer Accused of Sexual Harassment Asks ICA Boston to Take Down His Exhibition

by Claire Voon April 12, 2018

The museum will close the show 10 days early, in accordance with the wishes of Nicholas Nixon, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several of his former students.

Tracey Emin (photo by Piers Allardyce, via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inIn Brief

Tracey Emin Says She Was Sexually Assaulted by a Famous Woman Artist

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 11, 2018

Emin said she reacted by pushing the attacker away and threatening “to punch her lights out.”

Posted inNews

Sotheby’s Takes Down Richard Meier Exhibition After Sexual Harassment Allegations

by Claire Voon March 14, 2018

“Under the circumstances, and in consultation with the Meier family, the decision has been made to close our exhibition early,” a Sotheby’s representative told Hyperallergic.

Architect Richard Meier at a Tribeca Film Festival event in 2009 (photo by David Shankbone, via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inNews

Five Women Accuse Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz March 13, 2018March 14, 2018

Four of the five incidents, which span the 1980s to the late 2000s, involve women who worked for Meier’s architecture firm.

Statue of Themis, an ancient Greek personification of law and justice, in Brisbane (photo by Rae Allen/Flickr)
Posted inNews

Artforum Posts Statement After Boycott Letter, and Amanda Schmitt’s Attorneys Respond [UPDATED]

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Hrag Vartanian and Benjamin Sutton February 9, 2018February 10, 2018

Artforum released a statement distancing itself from former publisher Knight Landesman. Attorneys for former employee Amanda Schmitt responded.

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Museum Keeps Chuck Close Exhibition, Supplements It with Show About Power and Gender Dynamics

by Claire Voon January 30, 2018

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which is currently hosting a show of Close’s photographs, will put on a range of programs in light of recent sexual misconduct allegations against the artist.

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