How Canadian is Justin Bieber? His hometown’s “Steps to Stardom” exhibit provides some answers.
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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.
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.
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.
Longreads Best of 2017: Arts & Culture Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture writing.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Ethical Enjoyment of Museums
In his review for the New York Times, Holland Cotter writes that the museum fails in “truth-telling.”
L.A.’s Underground Museum is a Vital Hub of Contemporary Black Culture
The space has become a vital convening point for creatives, culture workers, and audiences interested in ideas of black excellence.
Are We Having Fun Yet?
The Museum of Ice Cream is popular, colorful, and sugary, but are visitors playing—or playing themselves?
The Death Penalty on Display
At The Texas Observer, Robin Ross writes on the rise of dark tourism — the macabre fascination with the Huntsville’s Texas Prison Museum — site of America’s first lethal injection.
The Death Penalty on Display
At The Texas Observer, Robin Ross writes on the rise of dark tourism — the macabre fascination with the Huntsville’s Texas Prison Museum — site of America’s first lethal injection.
