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The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
Art for Change From the Inside Out – This week’s episode of the Art Angle features Rahsaan Thomas, a prisoner at San Quentin who is also an acclaimed podcaster, journalist, artist, and curator. UK Nixes EU Regulations for Trade – Britain’s antiquities dealers are happy that the UK will not follow EU regulations for importing cultural heritage. […]
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Why This Arts Nonprofit Is Studying Every Single Monument in the US
If you ask yourself “What is a monument?” what comes to mind? As prominent a role as these statues and memorials play in the cultural discourse these days, they mean something very different depending on where and who you are. That’s a problem, says Paul Farber, director of Monument Lab, a Philadelphia-based public art studio and […]
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‘The Police Didn’t Know What Was Going to Happen’: 5 Photographers on What It Was Like to Document the Storming of the US Capitol
What has historically been the routine task of ratifying the results of the US presidential election devolved into unprecedented chaos on Wednesday as insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, overrunning law enforcement and vandalizing the building in a brazen attempt to interrupt the proceedings. Urged on by President Donald Trump at a rally outside the White House, […]
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The Art Angle Podcast: Can Art Help End the Era of Mass Incarceration?
Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Midnight Publishing Group News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew Goldstein every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more, […]
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Richard Serra’s Monumental Sculpture in the Qatari Desert Has Been Vandalized Yet Again
Richard Serra’s largest public artwork to date, a line of four 45-foot-tall steel plates spanning nearly four miles in the western Qatari desert, has been vandalized once again. The incident was announced this week on social media by Qatar Museums, a government organization that oversees the country’s public art. It did not share details of […]