Artist Edgar Calel Leads a New Wave of Institutional Critique
With his sculptural installations, he is focused on bringing his Maya Kaqchikel heritage to the rest of the world
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Why Climate Protesters Should Keep Targeting Museums
By targeting museums, climate activists are affirming both the urgency of the crisis and art's unique political power.
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The Five Most Essential Books About Art and Fashion
Here are five key texts exploring the ways in which art and fashion are inextricably linked.
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A New Book, ‘Art Monsters,’ Shows the Impact of Feminist Art on Formal Innovation
The kind of feminist art Elkin advocates is "not always polemical but often provisional."
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Hard Choices: Should You Become a Performance Artist?
Art world ethicists Chen & Lampert offer a quiz to take to see your fate.
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With Resourceful Reclamation, Chiffon Thomas Crafts New Forms From Old Structures
The sculptor has work in "Made in LA: Acts of Living" at the Hammer, and a solo show, "The Cavernous," at the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut.
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Hard Truths: Can a Non-Profit Director Dodge Janitor Duty?
An overworked administrator bemoans their fate, and an artist ponders dumbing down.
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The 8 Most Essential Books to Read About Pablo Picasso
His legacy has been memorialized in ways both celebratory and excoriating.
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Sculptor Lin May Saeed Dedicated Her Life to Animal Liberation, and Her Compassion Was Contagious
With her sculptures, Saeed wanted to give us a new iconography for human-animal relations.
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Hard Truths: Can AI Find Eternal Truth in Brushstrokes of Yore?
A curious inquisitor claims that authentication of artworks might best be left to non-human means.
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