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The Dirty South Comes to Denver 

Avatar photo by Stacy J. Platt January 12, 2023January 12, 2023

Spanning generations and genres from the past 100 years, the MCA Denver’s iteration of the traveling exhibition resonates as its only non-Southern venue.

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Employees Condemn Harassment and Policing at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 10, 2020January 11, 2023

Former and current staffers launched a petition denouncing the presence of armed guards in the galleries and alleging the museum has mishandled complaints of racial and sexual harassment.

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How Does a Black Man Fit Into an Edward Hopper Painting?

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney January 10, 2020January 11, 2020

The Edward Hopper and the American Hotel exhibition invites some visitors to spend the night in a room inspired by one of Hopper’s paintings, and our critic ponders who it’s really designed for.

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The Rarities and Oddities of a Vanished World

Avatar photo by David Carrier and Graham Shearing August 24, 2019August 23, 2019

It’s fair to say that images of sporting have a relatively marginal place in our art world.

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An Annual Compendium of Black Photography that Was a Revolutionary Act

by John Edwin Mason August 4, 2017August 3, 2017

In 1973, a small band of black artists published the Black Photographers Annual, Volume I, a book that changed the history of photography in America.

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The Fateful Attraction of Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli November 12, 2016February 14, 2017

Sometimes an exhibition, propelled by its clarity of purpose and emotional force, will lead you to a point that feels genuinely cathartic. And sometimes an exhibition will hit that mark and then shift into overdrive.

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Follow-Up to My Review: Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?

by John Yau February 13, 2016February 29, 2016

Very soon after my review of Louis Draper was published in Hyperallergic Weekend (February 7, 2016), I got an email from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and from the Museum of Modern Art.

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Battle for the Seal of Virginia: Sanity 1, Fundamentalism 0

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 5, 2010May 5, 2010

Remember that insane story about the Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli handing out new lapel pins to staff with the state seal covered up with an armored breastplate? Arts writer Tyler Green dreams up a snarky scenario where the Virginia attorney general’s disdain for female nudity reaches the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

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