The realization that mainstream political discourse in the United States continues to use patterns or representation — or misrepresentation — rooted in the 18 th century didn’t simply strike Esther ...
The art museums at Colonial Williamsburg are reopening with a new renovation—and new research into the origins of their collections. The facade of the newly renovated Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums ...
Editor’s Note: This is part of the 2022/23 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, and the first of three posts by the author, the third of which will be an email-only exhibition sent ...
Kent Monkman with one of the paintings included in his current exhibition, “Shame and Prejudice.” Randy Risling/Toronto Star via Getty Images The Canadian multimedia artist, who is of Cree First ...
Artists like Paula Modersohn-Becker sought to incorporate exotic elements into their art in Germany's colonial era, such as the bananas shown in this 1905 painting Kunsthalle Bremen A new exhibit will ...
Recent criticism of The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, which closed recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sheds light on the many issues that arise when mainstream museums present ...
A historic village. Costumed reenactors. Living history events. This is the Colonial Williamsburg everyone knows about. Less well known are its two world-class art museums. The DeWitt Wallace ...
In 1897, British troops looted thousands of pieces of culturally significant art, which came to reside in private and public collections, including this cooper plaque (detail) now held at the ...
Visitors will encounter half a dozen basic visual ideas at the National Gallery of Art’s Theaster Gates installation. Gates, who has built a career working both as a community activist and investor in ...
The term "art deco" is being applied too liberally to architecture built under colonialism, writes Edward Denison as part of our Art Deco Centenary series. Long cast as the bastard child of modernism, ...
Art Protests Shine Spotlight on Post-Colonial Restitution Question The Quai Branly Museum-Jacques Chirac, a museum featuring indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, is ...
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