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Shining a Light on a Dark Chapter of American Pottery 

Avatar photo by Ekin Erkan January 23, 2023January 25, 2023

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina brings awareness of both Edgefield’s awesome artistry and poet-potter David Drake’s odds-defying life to a sizable audience.

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Iranian Activists Stage “Die-In” at Met Museum

by Rhea Nayyar December 5, 2022December 5, 2022

More than a dozen activists participated in the action, organized by the group Woman Life Freedom NYC.

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Exhilarating Dreamlands of the Unconscious at the Met Museum

Avatar photo by Mark Dery January 13, 2022January 13, 2022

Tensions between resistance to Surrealism as cultural imperialism and the embrace of it as a universalist vision of freedom unfettered run through the show.

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Cloaked in Power and the Tutored Gaze, the Medici Portraits at the Met

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 7, 2021October 12, 2021

My sense is that people come to this museum and this show wanting to learn other histories by having their way of looking tutored and trained.

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The Met Museum Misses the Mark in Recounting Its Own Complicated History

by Daniel Larkin November 11, 2020November 12, 2020

Making the Met, the anniversary exhibition chronicling the museum’s first 150 years, botched several opportunities to truly reckon with its role in defining who is and isn’t included in dominant narratives of art history.

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Praying for Life

Avatar photo by Souleymane Bachir Diagne October 11, 2020November 5, 2020

Sahelian forms of artistry are a manifestation, or a visual translation, of an overarching ontology. Its plastic language can be understood as the language of a philosophy of the force of life.

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Metropolitan Museum Looks Toward Reopening in Late August

by Hakim Bishara June 24, 2020November 5, 2020

The New York Times reported that the major New York institution plans to reopen August 29, but the museum has yet to issue an official statement.

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What It’s Like to Visit Virtual Galleries as an Art Critic

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney March 25, 2020November 3, 2020

Due to the pandemic, museums and galleries are now creating virtual experiences. Here’s what it’s like to visit them.

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#CongressSaveCulture: Metropolitan Museum Advocates $4B in Funding for Museums

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber March 24, 2020March 24, 2020

Thousands have signed the museum’s petition asking Congress to dedicate part of its potential $2 trillion stimulus package to museums.

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The Parisian Bourgeoisie According to Félix Vallotton

Avatar photoby Angelica FreyJanuary 13, 2020September 16, 2020

In an age that celebrated the avant-garde and the so-called vie bohème, Swiss-born painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton deftly demonstrated that everyday, middle-class people were just as worthy of artistic representation.

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Kent Monkman Introduces Candid Indigenous Narratives to the Metropolitan Museum’s Great Hall

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 24, 2019January 8, 2020

In a new major commission for the Met, Monkman renders the past injustices and contemporary challenges endured by Indigenous people in the style of academic history painting.

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A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019

by Michael Glover November 30, 2019

Paula Rego, John Ruskin, Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Hokusai, and, yes, Leonardo da Vinci.

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