Chicago Art Institute Tells White Docents: We Don’t Want Your Kind Volunteering Around Here
From firing well-trained museum volunteers to eliminating gifted programs, the cult of wokeness has shown all it cares about is the optics of ‘diversity.’
Smithsonian Exhibition Follows 19th Century American Treasure Seekers To Venice
Bringing all of these treasures, and the thinking behind them, together under a single umbrella is the challenge this show faces, and for the most part, it succeeds.
Putting Trigger Warnings On Great Masterpieces Misses The Point Of Art
The Titian show is being presented by the Gardner museum with apologies and companion exhibits meant to deprecate the paintings.
New Director On Reopening The Hispanic Society’s Art Museum To The World
‘The idea of the museum as a fortress that tells the world what one should think and what one should appreciate or not, this is over.’
Why Regaining Reality Requires Recovering True Language
We are battling over reality. It is the last stop before we have surrendered the reins of our history to an unbridled horse in the wilderness.
White House Overlooks Potential Undue Influence To Defend Hunter Biden Meeting With Art Buyers
The White House committed to keep the identities of Hunter’s art shoppers secret from the artist and others, but Hunter has plans to meet with potential buyers.
Go Glam This Summer At The Met’s Fantastic Medici Exhibition
If you’re looking to see a big, beautiful art exhibition this summer, ‘The Medici’ at the Met is definitely the one you don’t want to miss.
The Court-Sanctioned Persecution Of Jack Phillips Shows How ‘Hate Crime’ Laws End Everyone’s Freedom Of Speech
The goal of lawfare against people like Phillips is to destroy free speech, not by winning discrete battles, but by winning a war of attrition.
Biden Purges Non-Partisan US Commission On Fine Arts In Unprecedented Move Against Popular Classical Architecture
President Joe Biden launched an unprecedented purge of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts Monday, demanding the resignation of four of the seven members.
Donald Glover Says Hollywood Is Making ‘Boring Stuff’ Because ‘People Are Afraid Of Getting Cancelled’
Twitter went wild with speculation as users tried to figure out what exactly Glover was trying to communicate in his tweets. Here are three possibilities.
Target Honors Violent Minneapolis Riots With Mural Of Burning Building
The mural features a group of people wearing hoods and holding up a sign that says “I can’t breathe” in front of what appears to be a building on fire.
Netflix’s ‘This Is A Robbery’ Is High On Flash, Low On Substance
A new four-part documentary on Netflix delves into what many call the greatest art robbery of all time.
Why Some Are Paying Millions For Viral Video Clips And Cat Memes
Forget cryptocurrencies — there’s a whole brave new world out there of crypto art, where ‘original’ copies of internet memes are selling for millions.
This Art Exhibit Sends You To Spain On American Soil
While it may not be as good as being there, the exhibition and the accompanying catalog help us to eagerly look forward to when we can go back to Spain.
‘Voyeur’ Theatrical Walking Tour Transforms COVID-Stricken New York City Into 1899 Paris
With theaters slated to be dark until May 2021, theater-lovers have had little to fill their imaginations. Enter ‘Voyeur,’ an immersive walking tour through Manhattan’s West Village
A Secondhand Address Book Unraveled The Life Of Famed French Artist Dora Maar
When Brigitte Benkemoun acquired a used address book, she untangled its fascinating contents to paint a picture of the life and times of the famed owner, Dora Maar.
DC’s New Eisenhower Memorial Looks Like A Careless Politburo Designed It
The fact that the Eisenhower memorial fails to inspire either admiration or ire raises the question of what was the point in having North America’s most prominent ‘starchitect’ involved.
No, ‘Cuties’ Is Not A Sophisticated Artistic Critique Of Child Pornography
The argument is that we should suspend moral judgment, that the film is a work of art with a complicated meaning, and the real problem is one of interpretation.
What Ray Bradbury Can Teach Us About How To Cultivate Creativity
As civilization crumbles around us, Bradbury and his fiction offer several primordial lessons we would be prudent to reconsider.
The Internationally Famous Rupert Alexander On Painting Portraits During Lockdown
Renowned painter Rupert Alexander sits down with The Federalist’s art critic William Netwon to discuss how a portrait artist can continue in a pandemic.
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