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2/26/2023
Kara Walker Disrupts the Visual History of the Civil War in New Exhibition
by Allison Robinson and Ksenia M. Soboleva
The artist Kara Walker's 2005 series of prints merged the historical illustrations that shaped Americans' understanding of the Civil War in its immediate aftermath and in the 1890s with her original subversive take on the tradition of silhouette art to highlight the erasure of Black experiences of war. Two curators are putting Walker's work in context in a new exhibition.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
1/28/2023
Glenda Gilmore's Bio Shows Artist Romare Bearden Reckoning with the South
"Gilmore sets a timeline, critiques some striking artworks, and leaves the reader wondering why hardly anyone writes about art this succinctly."
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SOURCE: Forbes
5/1/2022
After COVID Delay, Controversial Philip Guston Exhibit Opens in Boston
Guston's blunt imagery, including Ku Klux Klan figures, arguably interrogates his complicity as a white artist in ongoing racism. Is it offensive to contemporary museum audiences?
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4/24/2022
The Issue of Visibility in Latino Art
by Ricardo Romo
"The moment is ripe for bringing Latino art to public spaces and public museums. The number of talented Latino artists has multiplied over the past two decades, and the opportunity to make their work visible is now."
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SOURCE: Slate
2/14/2022
The Enlightenment Precursor of the Social Media "Wife Guy"
by Meghan Roberts
The "wife guy" who self-servingly projects an image of domestic bliss and romantic devotion is not just a creation of the social media age.
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SOURCE: WTTW
1/30/2022
New Exhibit Looks to Art as a Tool of Resistance to Anti-Black Violence
As Leslie Harris explains, the exhibition at Northwestern University incorporates 60 works in various media that show how Black art has been an instrument for communicating history.
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SOURCE: NPR
1/17/2022
A Texas-Born Princess and Former Scandalous Washington Wife May Lose Roman Villa in Epic Inheritance Fight
Princess Rita Boncompagni-Ludovisi, born Rita Carpenter, the former wife of Congressman John Jenrette, has worked for 19 years to make Rome's Villa Aurora accessible to scholars.
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12/12/2021
Acquiring Eyes: The Unlikely Cross-Cultural Partnership Behind the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
by Charles Dellheim
The world of American art collecting was transformed by the unlikely partnership of the Boston Brahmin Isabella Stewart Gardner and the ambitious Russian Jewish immigrant Bernhard Berenson.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/19/2021
The Stories of Those Who Lost Decades in the Closet
"On a quiet block in downtown Brooklyn, a new photography exhibit — housed inside a senior living center — invites viewers to consider an essential question: How do we measure the emotional and social costs of discrimination?"
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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
12/9/2020
Illuminating the Legacy of Slavery at a New York Museum
Artist Reggie Black is projecting a message about the history of slavery in New York City on the façade of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Manhattan, where six people were enslaved.
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10/25/2020
Trump: Superhero or Superspreader?
by Meredith Martin, Gillian Weiss and Bonnie Siegler
Inspired by the Sun King’s detractors, the White House Gift Shop’s self-parodying statements, and Trump’s own Superman fantasies, we offer a medal honoring the Super Spreader.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/27/2020
In His Own Words: Jacob Lawrence at the Met and MoMA
The artist Jacob Lawrence died in 2000; he spent a day in New York museums with Times art critic Michael Kimmelman four years before, discussing art and his creative process.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/19/2020
She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’
A contemporary artist is recreating the final campaign of suffrage activist Inez Milholland through historical ephemera, primary documents, and photographic reenactments.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
8/11/2020
African Americans Have Long Defied White Supremacy And Celebrated Black Culture In Public Spaces
by Shannon M. Smith
Long before Confederate monuments occupied city squares, African Americans used those same public spaces to celebrate their history. But those African American memorial cultures have often been overshadowed by Confederate monuments that dominate public space and set in stone a white supremacist story of the past.
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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
8/5/2020
Portraits that Honor the Men Who Participated in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
Carl Juste’s double portrait of father and son presents an extraordinarily intimate experience on the usually busy public plaza surrounding the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami.
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SOURCE: NPR
5/31/2020
Christo, Famous For His Monumental Works Of Art, Dies At 84
Christo's works played off of their environment in cities around the world.
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SOURCE: Architectural Digest
5/5/2020
A New Public Art Installation in Alexandria Confronts the City’s Ties to the Slave Trade
Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous examines an oft-overlooked aspect of the Virginia port community’s history.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/30/2020
This is how Bad Things are for Museums: They Now Have a Green Light to Sell Off Their Art
The Association of Art Museum Directors has relaxed its guidelines against selling works of art for operating funds. Now, the notion of selling off a Claude Monet or two to plug a budgetary hole—or to fend off a total financial meltdown—is suddenly something to contemplate.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/17/2020
She Tracked Nazi-Looted Art. She Quit When No One Returned It.
A researcher stopped working for a German museum after she says she lost faith in its commitment to return works with tainted provenances.
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2/11/20
How Somalis Use Theatre to Rebuild Culturally
by Farah M. Omer
Modern Somali theatre rose to prominence in the 1960s, the period following the independence and the subsequent unification of Somaliland and Somalia. By the 1970s, there were multiple shows a night in any given city and the average Somali adult was considered a regular theatre goer regardless of socioeconomic status.