The Clay’s the Thing
At the Denver Art Museum, mud is ‘marvelous’. Read More
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Author Archives: Robin Cembalest
It’s Not Just a Museum, It’s a Think Tank
Art museums are recruiting experts from outside the art world to address problems in the real world. Read More
COMMENTARY: Making Themselves Useful
Artists, activism, and political realities Read More
Should Curating Be Crowdsourced?
In attempting to avoid controversies over content, a Smithsonian panel might be setting the stage for even more. Read More
‘Hope’ Against Hope
As the legal saga around Shepard Fairey's Obama portrait draws to a close, the country has moved on . Read More
Between a Cross and a Hard Place
The controversy over the removal of a four-minute video from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery has observers wondering whether the culture wars are back. If so, can anything be done to stop them? Read More
A Satirist with a Loaded Brush
Art styles came and went, but painterly leftist Jack Levine had the last laugh . Read More
Claims Conflict
Tensions are rising between the restitution community and U.S. museums over the proper way to handle Holocaust art claims. Read More
Art Museum Directors, Unite
The stodgy AAMD votes to reinvent itself with new initiatives on membership, deaccessioning, and other hot-button issues. Read More
The Colonial Revolution
In the United States, the art made in Spain's Latin American colonies used to be considered artistically minor and politically incorrect. Now, as intellectual trends coincide with demographic realities, it's on the cutting edge of art history–and the wish lists of top museums. Read More
