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How the Wellness Revolution Just Arrived in the Art World
A blue neon sign reading "You Belong Here" has become a new kind of beacon in Long Beach, California recently. The light sculpture by artist Tavares Strachan exists to welcome visitors to Compound, a…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Art Critic Jerry Saltz on Why It's Time to Build a New Art World
It's not often that you find an art critic—or anyone, for that matter—who can claim upwards of 400,000 Instagram followers, a Pulitzer Prize, and appearances on an original Bravo reality series as a…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
How Black Women Are Leading a Grassroots Art Revolution
Just days into the start of 2020, CityLab published an article analyzing which major American cities are the best, and the worst, for Black women residents. The report took into account a variety of …
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
How the Heck Did Auction Houses Just Sell Almost a Billion Dollars in Art During a Global Pandemic?
Each May, as the flowers bloom and the evening light lingers, the world's largest auction houses hold their marquee spring sales in New York, enabling perennial market leader Christie's, its arch-riv…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
How Hank Willis Thomas Is Making Politics an Art Form
Hank Willis Thomas is a busy man. The 44-year-old photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, and writer was already a force within the rarefied world of visual art before he decided to embrace politics on a …
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
The Unsettling Truth Behind What Columbus Monuments Really Stand For
In cities across the world over the past month, activists have been taking aim at symbols of oppression in the form of monuments: splashing them with paint, tagging them with graffiti, and most impo…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Meet the Smithsonian Curator Who Turns Protesters’ T-Shirts Into National Treasures
Although 2020 isn't even halfway done yet, the worldwide health crisis and the global uprising over civil rights already guarantee that this year will be one historians study forevermore. As challeng…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Why Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence
In fall 2019, a new app called ImageNet Roulette was introduced to the world with what seemed like a simple, fun premise: snap a selfie, upload it to a database, and wait a few seconds for machine l…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Four Artists on the Front Lines of the George Floyd Protests
As American citizens entered Memorial Day weekend this year, the nation was already in turmoil. Nearly 100,000 lives had been lost to a colossal public-health crisis, with a disproportionately high n…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
The Rise and Fall of Anne Geddes, Queen of Baby Photography
Picture this: a doughy, apple-cheeked infant nestled in between the soft petals of a dew-kissed flower, sound asleep, like the start of a real-life fable. Almost everyone who conjures that mental ima…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago