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Hungarian Conservatives Threaten to Tear Down a Public Art Installation That Has a Black Lives Matter Message
Conservatives in Hungary are threatening to tear down a planned public art installation in Budapest because of its social-justice message. The three-foot-tall sculpture, by artist Péter Szalay, depicts a rainbow-striped Statue of Liberty on bended knee, an allusion to US athletes kneeling during the national anthem to protest police violence against Black Americans. Its right fist is […]
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Coachella Officials Have Rejected a Proposal for an Ambitious Desert X Artwork, Claiming It Would ‘Exploit’ Local Plight for Tourism
Desert X, Southern California’s Coachella Valley art biennial, has always confronted environmental themes head on, using the harsh desert landscape to speak to global concerns about climate change. But during preparations for the event’s third edition, Coachella natives took umbrage with a planned installation about water insecurity by Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey. The city has […]
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Lawmakers Are Cracking Down on the ‘Unregulated’ US Art Market. Here’s How a New Anti-Money Laundering Law Will Affect Dealers
The US antiquities trade is going to face far stricter oversight in 2021 than it has in the past. On January 1, the Senate overrode President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021, a bill that includes a new law requiring antiquities dealers to comply with the requirements of the Bank Secrecy […]
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‘People Often Get Hung Up on the Search for Meaning’: Artist Seth Price on Why People Don’t Get His Work
Seth Price is not an artist—or at least, he’s hesitant to adopt that title. It makes sense. The term “artist,” free though we think it is, actually refers to a very specific type of maker, one who often carves out a niche in an accepted medium. This doesn’t apply to Price. For one, he doesn’t […]
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Jordan Wolfson, provocative mixed media artist
Jordan Wolfson’s amazing work is brought to us in rare format using animatronics (seemingly bleeding edge at that) in a thought provoking, disturbing and unshakable way. The eyes were designed to follow you, or various members of the audience using face-recognition technology. His ‘Female Figure’ installation below speaks for itself. Watch the video. Another installation, […]