Brazil’s Incoming President Vows to Restore a Disbanded Cultural Ministry
Former President Jair Bolsonaro had dissolved the culture ministry.
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Italian Prime Minister and Uffizi Director Exchange Blows Over the Museum’s Closure on a National Holiday
Sangiuliano said locking the doors was a "very serious" issue as thousands of tourists were denied access.
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Tracey Emin Demands Artwork Be Removed From 10 Downing Street
The request follows the Boris Johnson COVID party scandal.
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What Democracy Looks Like: A Documentary on Political Life Now
Astra Taylor set out in 2013 to unsettle and challenge our notions of democracy as it is currently conceived. Unfortunately, the state of the world may have beaten her to it.
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Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett explored themes of race, gender, and class in her prints and sculptures, not only portraying the types of injustices she knew all too well as the granddaughter of slaves but also…
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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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Sketches of Place and Loss: Graphic Novels in 2017
A variety of graphic work was published this year: narratives both long and short, imaginative fiction and political reportage, books with enough text to be considered long essays and others that…
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They, The People
Populist political movements have gained strength in recent years, but for whom, exactly, are they speaking?
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The Trauma of Political Engagement: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Tania Libre
What happens when a performance artist struggling against state censorship goes to therapy? In her new film Tania Libre, Lynn Hershman Leeson lets us eavesdrop on Tania Bruguera's session with Dr…
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We Exist: Victoria Lomasko’s Graphic Journalism
Over the past eight years, Russian artist Victoria Lomasko has captured, in sketches and portraits, the people and movements at the periphery of her country's political life.
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The Facials the Hollywood Stars Received to Get Oscars Ready
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