By posting paintings like “American Progress,” the DHS signals its white supremacist beliefs.
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How My Museum’s Celebration of America’s 250th Birthday Got Complicated
At the New York Historical, our virtual wish wall for the nation’s anniversary faced unexpected political challenges.
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Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
Musk and other conservatives often omit the role of queer soldiers in ancient military successes when extolling the virtues of Greek warriors.
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My Dialogues With a Political Prisoner
“It feels like the world has forgotten about us,” said artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who recently served four years of his sentence in a maximum-security Cuban prison.
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Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?
Biological residue on or around an artwork may help tell an original from a fake, but the novel method is not without risks.
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As a Japanese American in LA, the ICE Raids Hit Home
I know what lasting trauma these violations cause as someone whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were unjustly incarcerated by the US government during World War II.
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The Met Finally Meets Asian Femininity on Its Own Terms
After an exploitative 2015 show, I was wary about being an academic “beard” for another exhibition in the guise of “revision.” Monstrous Beauty is a different beast.
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As ICE Raids Stir Fear, My LA Neighborhood Perseveres
In my home in Downtown LA, I see artists and activists continuing to rise up.
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This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum
It’s a story about power, leverage, and fear during the first Trump administration, and also about the potential for solidarity and love in the second.
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Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides.
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Juneteenth Is the Story of a Freedom Withheld
In the art world, as in America at large, spectacle is welcomed more readily than structural change.
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LA Museums Have Failed Undocumented Immigrants
In a county of over one million undoc+ individuals, why is “undocumented” a bad word in the arts sector?