Tag: Mark
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At Making Their Mark Forum, Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak Notes Troubling Pattern in Museum Leadership
During a talk in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak said she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women more frequently get fired, Charlotte Burns reported in the Financial Times Thursday. “I’m petrified about read more
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At Making Their Mark Forum, Art Figures Debate Gender Inequities in the Market and the Museum
Four years ago, when Komal Shah conceived a forum to celebrate female artists and address enduring gender inequities in the art world, she thought she’d be convening attendees in Washington, D.C., in the glow of Kamala Harris’s White House. Instead, the forum took place against a political backdrop openly hostile toward diversity in the arts. read more
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Mark Bradford, Carrie Mae Weems Among Latest Artists Commissioned by Obama Presidential Center
Over the past year, the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has announced groups of artists who have been commissioned to create site-specific installations for the center’s 19-acre campus. The most recent cohort includes Mark Bradford, Tyanna J. Buie, Jay Heikes, Carrie Mae Weems, and the duo Sam Kirk + Dorian. So far, over two dozen read more
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Glamourpuss: The Beautifully Hirsute Portraits of Erik Mark Sandberg – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“Where does authenticity live in cultural society today? These systems that we have in place now for communication and information sharing, they have to be taken a bit with a grain of salt.” There’s a lot in Sandberg’s tool box. He has worked with acrylic and oil, etching and photoengraving. Frequently, he plays with characters read more
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