When is Building an Enormous Museum a Bad Idea?

When is Building an Enormous Museum a Bad Idea?

This week, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said that he intended to move forward on a plan to bring George Lucas’ museum to the city waterfront. It seems like a charming idea: a museum of narrative art—stories told through imagery, like movies—seems like a pleasant place...
On Getting Indigenous Art the Right Way

On Getting Indigenous Art the Right Way

It wasn’t such a long time ago that colonizers or tourists were buying art from indigenous artists with food, alcohol, or a handful of cash, and then reselling that art for thousands of dollars. Though the Indigenous Art Code was developed in 2007, its implementation...
Antarctica Gets Its First Art Exhibition

Antarctica Gets Its First Art Exhibition

You can see art almost anywhere these days, like abandoned subway stations in the dead of night. You can also see art of all kinds, like cats upon cats upon cats. And now you can see art in a place you’ve never been able to before: Antarctica. Scheduling is underway...