Nov

03

What Lady Gaga Teaches us about Pain and Gender

What does GAGA: Five Foot Two teach us about pain? The documentary challenges viewers to consider how female pain is often perceived or diminished.

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Oct

11

Bryan Stevenson and America’s First Slavery Museum

The Equal Justice Initiative’s new museum seeks to lead a more “honest conversation about racial and economic justice.”

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Sep

30

Glenn Ligon’s “Blue Black” Exhibits the History of Race in America

Artist Glenn Ligon grounds his work in American history, addressing the inextricable link between history of slavery and the black experience in the U.S.

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Sep

03

Honoring History with Edgar Heap of Birds’s “Building Minnesota”

Prior to discussions about appropriation art, artist Hock E Aye Vi (Hachivi) Edgar Heap of Birds honored the 40 executed Dakota men in “Building Minnesota.”

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Sep

01

Beyoncé, the Virgin Mary, and the Power of Imagery

Why did Beyoncé pose as the Virgin Mary in her pregnancy and birth announcements? Learn about her art historical referents and iconic portraiture here.

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Aug

21

A Museum in the Palm of your Hand

SFMOMA recently made headlines with its digital campaign to make art go viral with their Send Me SFMOMA project — but what museum exhibits came before this?

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Aug

06

How Pope Francis Will Redefine Art at the Vatican

Elected as the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis has been full of surprises and has redefined the papacy, including the ways in which he considers the role and power of art.

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Jun

19

How Basquiat went from Underrated to Record-Breaking

Last month, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled work from 1982 broke records as the highest selling US-produced artwork. Learn how Basquiat’s work gained its fame.

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May

23

Was Marsden Hartley Really a Great Painter?

Walker analyzes not just how Hartley’s movement and travel around the world influenced his style, but also how the art world changed its perceptions of Marsden Hartley as an innovator, imitator, experimentalist, or influencer. Perhaps Hartley’s life and changing artistic legacy tell us more about history-making and public memory than they do about his work.

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May

07

It is obvious from the map

The exhibit’s brochure described the maps in the show as bearing witness and “testifying to the criminal regimes that force people into dangerous journeys and that seek to curtail, control and interrupt their crossings.” Through a variety of maps and media, It is obvious from the map succeeds at challenging viewers to see a multiplicity of realities and that in fact “nothing is obvious” when it comes to how society deals with migration, migrant rights, monitoring migrant vessels, and movements of a people.

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