The burning of large areas in the city suggests the dusk of America as a dream manufacturer, and the beginnings of a darker story.
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Why I Refuse to Make Art for Prisons
What purpose does this creative enrichment serve when the buildings that host it are harmful?
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My Small Gallery Lost Money at an Art Fair. It Hurt.
When sales are robust, it confirms that producing and selling art is actually a viable activity. When sales falter, our world begins to feel untenable.
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The Canonization of St. Luigi
The authorities inadvertently transformed a perp walk photo of the accused killer of a healthcare CEO into a Renaissance painting of the arrest of Christ.
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Nativity Scenes Have Never Been Neutral
To criticize the Vatican’s nativity with a now-removed Jesus in a keffiyeh would be to dismiss the artistic history of crèches centering marginalized people.
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Banana Company Artwashes Its Bloody Legacy at Art Basel Miami Beach
Chiquita has no place in the arts, let alone at an art fair with deep ties to Latin America.
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Stop Hating on Pantone’s “Mocha Mousse” Color of the Year
I am always unfortunately attuned to the manner in which people respond to the color brown.
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The Banal Evil of Atrocity Photography
In the dark genre of self-reported atrocity photography, governments take pictures of their crimes and file them away in an act of simultaneous remembering and forgetting.
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I’m a Guard at the Seattle Art Museum. This Is Why We Plan to Strike.
After 27 months of union contract delays, we’ve had no choice but to take drastic measures.
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The Banana That Made Me Sick to My Stomach
Maurizio Cattelan swims in the same swamp as those he pretends to parody.
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Republican-led Bill Would Give Trump the Power to Squash Arts Nonprofits
Everyone from museums and nonprofit galleries to universities and art publications should be concerned.
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The Gestural Feminism of Iranian Women
The student who stripped her clothes to protest the country’s oppressive dress code fits into an evolving movement of body-based feminist activism.