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The Top Ten Streaming Films About Artists
Some are works of fiction, some are ostensibly nonfiction, but all ten, without preciousness or corniness, present artistry as a kind of unsolvable riddle.
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Are Art Museums Racist?
Not until the white people who now hold the power in the art world scrutinize their own motives and attitudes toward people of color will it be possible to unlearn racism.
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Hard Truths: Essential Industries
How to keep the art world at a distance during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Once Heretical, Marcia Tucker’s Ideas About the Role of Museums Now Appear Prescient
Four decades ago, Marcia Tucker founded a renegade institution—and foresaw the cultural future.
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Twenty Years On, Nikki S. Lee’s Shapeshifting Art Provokes Debates About Cultural Appropriation
Her quick ascent, fade into the background and reemergence can be read against the art world's cyclical patterns of embracing and ignoring identity politics.
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Polaroid’s History Through Two Lenses: One Sanitized, One Playful
Unlike a Polaroid image that reveals itself at once, the representation of history is not an instantaneous endeavor, but an ongoing pursuit. It looks like we may need to wait longer for multicolored…
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A New Clyfford Still Documentary Explores the Life and Work of the Enigmatic Abstract Expressionist
A new documentary about Clyfford Still offers an intimate portrait of the Abstract Expressionist, who was as principled as he was pugnacious.
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Rami George’s Videos Show What It’s Like to Grow Up in a Cult
A Philadelphia-based artist confronts early childhood trauma through video, sound, and dowsing diagrams.
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The Cultural Bailout We Need Has Been a Long Time Coming
Private markets and philanthropy will be changed on the other side of this pandemic, so it is time once again to envision what art looks like as a public good.
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Marina Abramović’s Big-Budget Belgrade Solo Show Eclipsed the Collaborative Legacy of Yugoslav Art
What Abramović's call to young artists misses is that many of them draw on the Yugoslav legacy of collective resistance rather than hagiographies of individual artists.
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