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The Fool Has Appeared in Art for Centuries. What Do These Portrayals of the Complex Character Say About Us?
A new exhibition at the Louvre takes visitors on a visual journey, exploring how the figure of the fool evolved between the ...
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There.
As it turned out, the visitor was not really a visitor at all. He was a Met curator, planning a big new exhibit with ancient ...
Scott Burton’s Civic Engagement and Eroticism Merge at the Pulitzer
Paradigm-shifter for public art in the ’80s, groundbreaking (and openly queer) performance artist in the ’70s, Burton showed ...
Hyperallergic15h
The Eternal Dance of Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a ...
I study modern-day slavery − and here’s what I’ve learned about how enslavers try to justify their actions
Sex trafficking, like forced labor, is a contemporary form of slavery. I am an academic who studies the mindset of slaveholders to understand more fully their rationale for what they do, in hopes of ...
Hyperallergic18h
Contemporary Artists Use the Rug as a Vehicle for Expression at the Museum of Craft and Design
In “RugLife,” 14 artists from around the world explore the rug as a medium to interweave discourse about issues on a global and personal scale.
Opinion
Amsterdam News12hOpinion
OP-ED: Bringing Black voices to the stage: Why representation matters in classical theater
Black characters and stories have long existed in the classical canon, but they are too often overlooked, obscured by a Western-centric lens.