Tag: Politics
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Whitney Biennial shifts to infrastructural interventions
This year’s Whitney Biennial spotlights “the greater United States”—a term from historian Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire. It describes not only the country’s 50 states but also its occupied countries, annexes, military bases, and territories. Strategically, Immerwahr argues, words like “colony” and “empire” have been evaded by officials since World War II—but that’s read more
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In Leaked Transcript, UNT Dean Cites Politics as the Reason Behind Cancelation of Show with Anti-ICE Art Show
The decision to cancel a solo exhibition featuring anti-ICE art at the University of North Texas art school was an “institutional directive,” Dean Karen Hutzel said in newly leaked transcripts of a faculty meeting. First reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle, the transcripts show Hutzel declining to identify the directive’s source while warning colleagues to expect read more
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The Sticky Politics of Wall Texts
In 2024, I made a vow to never base my art criticism on wall labels. My decision came after reading reactions to that year’s Whitney Biennial. “If every label in ‘Even Better Than the Real Thing,’ the 81st installment of the Whitney Biennial, were peeled off the walls and tossed into the Hudson, what would read more
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Art Problems: Should I Sell My Work to People Whose Politics I Hate?
Should I allow my work to be sold to people whose politics I hate? I’m not okay with the ongoing injustice in Minneapolis and I don’t want to pretend this is just a difference of opinion. —distraught painter in America Short answer. No. You should not allow your work to be sold to MAGA supporters. read more
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The Unruly Politics of Glitter
Quil Lemons, “Raheem” (2017) from the series GLITTERBOY (image courtesy the artist) It’s a cold Saturday afternoon in downtown San Francisco. Despite the weather, the streets are crowded with determined shoppers. I’m feeling rather pleased with myself, having just scored a pair of jeans at 50% off, when I wander into one of those shops read more
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