Activists Fight to Salvage the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art”
President Trump's plans to sell a federal building housing works of art about Social Security is an attempt to erase the country’s history, a new petition argues.
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What the Smithsonian Won’t Say About Grandma Moses
The benign narrative of the beloved artist must be deconstructed, as she also embodies the US’s detrimental values.
Brass Bands
"I quite like the brass band version of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, but I’m not sure it’s what Freddie Mercury had in mind."
Uman’s Diasporic Abstraction
The artist paints the distance between the homeland you lose and the one you try to dream back into existence.
This Is the Year We Redefine Art Institutions
I sat down with curator eunice bélidor and arts administrator Dejha Carrington to discuss what have become reductive ideas about the role of art museums, my own included.
Lotty Rosenfeld Weaponized the Line
The Chilean artist knew that survival under authoritarianism requires both sustenance and nerve — something to live on and something to stand for.
She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway.
"A retired widower married Sara Jane Moore, who shot at President Ford in 1975. It tore his family apart."
The art of museum dioramas
From fluffing feathers to washing skins, a museum taxidermist shows the hidden art behind creating an ‘illusion of life’ - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Martin Luther King Jr. in Art and Memory
Revisiting a 40-year-old mural of the civil rights leader, John Yau on the paintings of John Wilson, and a perspective from a former educator at the California College of the Arts.
Our unfinished republics
Economic republicanism shows us how to achieve authentic freedom: citizens require economic as well as political power - by Sean Irving Read on Aeon
On the wall
We are story-processing creatures, and the most effective stories are often embodied in people. Living examples of the lesson we’re trying to learn and the posture we hope to model. Heroes, mentors, martyrs, examples, icons, avatars, archetypes, and even villains. Sometimes
How the “Netflix Movie” Turns Cinema into “Visual Muzak”
When Netflix launched around the turn of the millennium, it was received as a godsend by many American cinephiles, especially those who lived nowhere near diversely programmed revival houses or well-curated video stores. A quarter-century later, it’s safe to say that those days
What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. — Winston Churchill Winston Churchill had a reputation as a brilliant statesman and a prodigious drinker. The former prime minister imbibed throughout the day, every day. He also burned through 10 daily cigars,