The Once-Reviled Goddess Movement Gets a Second Chance
As scholars revisit early matriarchal cultures, artists are rediscovering the Goddess movement.
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From the Archives: Postmodern Heretics
It is no coincidence, the author asserts, that the majority of artists targeted in recent years by the religious right share a Catholic background.
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New Book by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Explores the Link Between Conflict and Creativity
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie's new book, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True" considers how art may operate as a proxy for political discourse in places where free speech has been suppressed.
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Shifting Styles and Moral Steadiness Made Philip Guston a Lodestar for Artists Today
Guston encourages artists to change their work, to examine their relationship to evil, and to revel in their own ambivalence about the meaning of art.
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How the Ecological Art Practices of Today Were Born in 1970s Feminism
Ecofeminism is less about breaking the glass ceiling than about reordering the systems that perpetuate inequity.
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Once Heretical, Marcia Tucker’s Ideas About the Role of Museums Now Appear Prescient
Four decades ago, Marcia Tucker founded a renegade institution—and foresaw the cultural future.
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Before Abstract Expressionism, Hyman Bloom Sought Transcendence in Bodily Forms
Why do some artists become canonical, while others, equally respected at the time, fade into obscurity? Once the answer was simple: Quality. But lately, that supposedly self-evident attribute has…
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Critical Eye: Art in the Age of Sexual Disruption
The clash between entrenched patriarchal attitudes and the newly awakened #MeToo consciousness found some striking counterparts in New York exhibitions such as "The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of…
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Australian reformers often speak of the silence that has muffled so much of the country's history. Aboriginal artists are speaking up to break it.
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NBC’s Bevacqua to Take Notre Dame AD Reins From Jack Swarbrick
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