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Unmasking “The Scholar”: The Colorado Woman Who Helped a Global Art Smuggling Operation Flourish for Decades

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 7, 2022December 7, 2022

“An investigation into how Emma C. Bunker helped Douglas Latchford sell stolen Cambodian antiquities.”

A young Cambodian woman stands in one of the torture rooms of Tuol Sleng prison.
Posted inCulture, History, Nonfiction, Reading List

What We Save, What We Destroy: A Reading List on Difficult Heritage

by Annalisa Bolin July 26, 2022October 20, 2022

The present we inhabit is shaped by the mixed legacies of the past.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Racist Scientist Built a Collection of Human Skulls. Should We Still Study Them?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 14, 2021October 19, 2022

“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

by Soraya Roberts March 30, 2020December 16, 2022

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

by michelleweber April 2, 2019October 19, 2022

We’re gonna need more bubble wrap.

Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Highlight, Quotes

It’s All In the Wrist (and the Blatant Lying)

by michelleweber March 6, 2019October 19, 2022

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

by Soraya Roberts August 8, 2018October 19, 2022

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

by Danielle Jackson July 20, 2018October 19, 2022

Adrian Piper’s body of work encourages audiences to think critically about race, gender, and power, and to engage with their own perceptions.

a close-up image of red, orange, blue, green, and yellow balls
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Quotes

You’ll Dream What We Tell You To Dream and You’ll Like It

by michelleweber May 4, 2018October 19, 2022

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

by Jonny Auping February 8, 2018October 19, 2022

Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.

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