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‘We’re Not Taking Care of It’ March 08, 2023
There’s a widely taken-for-granted consensus that in film lies immortality; in Damien Chazelle’s recent drama Babylon, a Tinseltown gossip columnist waxes rhapsodic about how actors captured on celluloid effectively live forever in posterity, her gen...
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered October 04, 2022
Early in its history, the Museum of Modern Art embraced self-taught artists and African and Meso-American art almost as ardently as it did sophisticated vanguardists. What was then unabashedly referred to as “primitive art” was seen as sharing modern...
Is It Time to Abolish Museums? May 26, 2021
It’s been a tumultuous few years for the art world. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump served as a moment of political awakening for many: Well-intentioned artists began to make explicitly political art—some of it quite moving, more o...
