The Terrifying Cynicism of Teeter-Totter Wall
What happens when good intentions get mistaken for good art?
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Socially Awkward
July's work highlighted the acute tension between competing economic ideologies—extreme self-indulgence versus social enterprise—in stark proximity.
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Striking Nerves: Art and Protest in 2017
The most powerful protests are not always the voices shouting the loudest. Often they are the most nuanced and multivalent, holding open the space we need to endure and push back on homogenizing…
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The Men’s Room: Judith Bernstein Talks to Alison Gingeras
"If a penis is wholesome enough to go into a woman, it should be wholesome enough to go into a museum."
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Radical Images: The Visual Language of Protest
Two exhibitions in New York are presenting the cultural and documentary history of protests, riots, and revolution that took place over the last forty years, from the election of Richard Nixon to the …
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Leon Ferrari, 1920-2013
Controversial Argentinean conceptual artist and political activist León Ferrari died at the age of 92 on July 25.
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Art in Russia: Under Attack
With trials, harassment, and other forms of intimidation, Russian authorities are striking out against curators and artists—who are, in turn, organizing projects that are increasingly provocative and…
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A Roman Emperor’s Tough Guy Image
The Met’s portrait of Caracalla is a consummate example of art as propaganda
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From the Archives: Out of the Safety Zone
In his determination to make the private public, David Wojnarowicz went beyond specific thematic material to forge a unique combination of politics and spirituality, of the known and unknown.
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