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COMMENTARY: Making Themselves Useful

Artists, activism, and political realities Read More

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I Got You, Abe

Thinking Lincoln at the Brooklyn Museum Read More

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Should Curating Be Crowdsourced?

In attempting to avoid controversies over content, a Smithsonian panel might be setting the stage for even more. Read More

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‘Hope’ Against Hope

As the legal saga around Shepard Fairey's Obama portrait draws to a close, the country has moved on . Read More

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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

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A Satirist with a Loaded Brush

Art styles came and went, but painterly leftist Jack Levine had the last laugh . Read More

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Marked Sherds

Machu Picchu, Yale, and the world stage. Read More

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Claims Conflict

Tensions are rising between the restitution community and U.S. museums over the proper way to handle Holocaust art claims. Read More

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Art Museum Directors, Unite

The stodgy AAMD votes to reinvent itself with new initiatives on membership, deaccessioning, and other hot-button issues. Read More

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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

De Alvear at the Juana Mordó gallery with Nam June Paik in 1989, the year of his first exhibition in Spain. She ended up buying everything in the show.  ©LUIS PÉREZ MÍNGUEZ
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A Dealer With Ideas

With her Madrid gallery and her private collection, Helga de Alvear has introduced a wave of high-concept, new-media artists to Spain.
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The Enigma of Man Ray

Is the Jewish Museum showcasing crypto–Jewish art?. Read More