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Remaking the Exceptional allows us to feel the furious joy that emanates from those who have saved their own lives with activism and art. → Read More
“Buddhist Art of Tibet: In Milarepa's Footsteps” is a cringe-worthy display of “spiritual colonialism.” → Read More
The stories of the Red Orchestra show the power of joy, creativity, and love in the fight against the compliance, fear, and silence upon which fascism still depends. → Read More
Destroying art in service of justice is a time-honored tradition. Does it ever work? → Read More
Interrogated, tortured, and held for decades without charges, Gitmo prisoners held onto their humanity by creating art. → Read More
Smashing. Scrubbing. Symbolic humiliation. How Romans, Sumerians, and Egyptians handled the old-statue problem. → Read More
The work of many of Nepal's contemporary artists suggests that the distinctions between labels like ancient and modern, or foreign and Nepali, will blur if you shift your point of view. → Read More
Within the well-patrolled boundaries of Madison Square Park, it’s hard not to see Hugh Hayden's Brier Patch as just another amenity, offering a pleasant opportunity for virtue signaling. → Read More
The unauthorized removal of the monument took place during the racial justice protests of summer 2020 → Read More
The African Origins exhibition ignores the fact that approximately 160 objects from Benin are held by the museum under ongoing demands for their repatriation. → Read More
Last week, I flew to Nepal and witnessed a ceremony to replace a looted Lakshmi-Narayan sculpture to its original location. → Read More
Where should we “draw the line” between sacrificing great art and supporting artists who are predators and bigots? → Read More
Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue was a focal point of violence during a white supremacist riot in 2017. Now, the city must decide what to do with it. → Read More
And no, it’s not “anti-Christian” to say so. → Read More
Calling Arizona… Black Main Street… Privileged information… The bronze ceiling (web-only)… → Read More
We need to make it clear to our museums that we do not want to walk around in galleries of stolen artworks. → Read More
The statue embodies is the long historical pattern in which male competition plays out in the exploitation of female suffering. → Read More
As statues topple across the country, the Pioneers Monument is a test case for the future of public art in America → Read More
Anyone who deliberately damages art in a museum is regarded as under a delusion, either due to mental illness or a failure to perceive the nature of what they’re doing. But in reality, people touch art all of the time. → Read More
Perhaps in 2020, the best monuments to the fight for women’s rights -- for all our rights -- may look nothing like what most of us would imagine. → Read More