Tag: Texts
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Leaked Texts Show UNT Leaders Feared ‘Barking from Austin’ Before Anti-ICE Show Cancelation
Newly published text messages between leaders at the University of North Texas (UNT) reveal that administrators feared “any barking from Austin” over plans to cancel an exhibition featuring artwork critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Urgent Matter reports that the communications show school president Harrison Keller and provost Michael McPherson discussing “Ni De Aquí, read more
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British Museum Contests Report on Removal of ‘Palestinian’ from Some Wall Texts
The British Museum contested a Telegraph report from this weekend, saying that it had not entirely stripped the word “Palestinian” from its wall texts in response to pressure from a pro-Israel group. The Telegraph report stated that UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) had written to British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan, claiming that using the word 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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