“A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you…
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With Sharper Tools: Defending the National Endowment for the Arts
The Heritage Foundation and conservative groups like it have been trying to kill the National Endowment for the Arts for decades. Last month, the Trump…
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Spoiled Roots: Mark Bradford and the Erasure of Community
Artists tasked with filling the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale have often poked at its resemblance to Monticello, the plantation designed by the…
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A Culture War is Coming
Very early on November 9 – about a minute after permanent midnight – the stunned responses started rolling in. “WTF are you doing over…
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Robert Rauschenberg and Rachel Harrison Mirror Media and More Across Time
In 1970, a powerful bomb detonated Rodin’s Thinker (1880-81) outside the Cleveland Museum of Art. This edition of the sculpture was a rare version of the existing 25…
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Inside My Head: An Interview with Glenn Ligon
American artist Glenn Ligón is bringing together artworks spanning decades, continents, and themes that closely relate to his work with race and gender in post-war America….
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