“An investigation into how Emma C. Bunker helped Douglas Latchford sell stolen Cambodian antiquities.”
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Posted inCulture, History, Nonfiction, Reading List
What We Save, What We Destroy: A Reading List on Difficult Heritage
The present we inhabit is shaped by the mixed legacies of the past.
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A Racist Scientist Built a Collection of Human Skulls. Should We Still Study Them?
“After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 sparked protests for racial justice around the country, more and more people within and outside Penn began to see the Morton collection as a present-day perpetuation of racism and its harms, rather than just a historic example.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story, Technology
Performance Art: On Sharing Culture
With physical distancing the order of the day as COVID-19 spreads, cultural locales — sites for communal experiences, like museums and theaters — are emptying out. What are we sharing if we’re not sharing these spaces? And were we really sharing them to begin with?
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quotes
How Do You Move a Warhol? Really, Really Carefully
We’re gonna need more bubble wrap.
Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Highlight, Quotes
It’s All In the Wrist (and the Blatant Lying)
In these troubling economic times, you can’t amass a giant art collection without robbing a few hundred museums any more.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
We Stand on Guard for Bieber
How Canadian is Justin Bieber? His hometown’s “Steps to Stardom” exhibit provides some answers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Understanding Adrian Piper’s Probing Body of Work
Adrian Piper’s body of work encourages audiences to think critically about race, gender, and power, and to engage with their own perceptions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Quotes
You’ll Dream What We Tell You To Dream and You’ll Like It
Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized
What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists
Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.