While major universities, media outlets, and cultural institutions capitulate to Trump's anti-democratic agenda, one small museum in Los Angeles demonstrates uncommon courage.
| While major universities, media outlets, and cultural institutions capitulate to Trump's anti-democratic agenda, one small museum in Los Angeles demonstrates uncommon courage. Though it operates under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution, recently targeted by the president, the Japanese American National Museum announced that it will continue its DEI programs, no matter what. Read more about this in our report today. Meanwhile, a climate activist who smeared paint over the protective case of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, is convicted of federal charges. Our Staff Reporter Isa Farfan got to interview Timothy Martin, who could face prison time. Also, we remember the work and life of art critic and photographer Max Kozloff, who died this week at age 91, and much more below. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | | |
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| | The institution said it would continue to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in the face of widespread government funding cuts and pressures. | Isa Farfan |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Steeped in modernist visual languages — from Abstract Expressionism to Arte Povera — Kennedy Yanko’s works occupy the generative space between abstraction and figuration, the surreal and the earthbound. Yanko’s sculptures embody expressive gestures — their folds and curves perform as brushstrokes or voluminous pours made solid, transforming the ephemeral movement of the painter’s hand into permanent spatial configurations.
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LATEST NEWS | | | The prolific writer penned a seminal essay on Abstract Expressionism in 1973, going on to teach at universities across the United States and cultivate his own photography practice. | Maya Pontone |
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| | | Timothy Martin could go to prison for smearing black paint on the protective case of Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer,” which was unharmed, at the National Gallery of Art. | Isa Farfan |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Based in Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, the organization makes art that can seem luxurious meet real, lived necessities. Learn more |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | By embracing horror through the larger-than-life persona he constructed, the photographer occupies an odd middle ground between the news media and its parody. | Julia Curl |
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| | | In paintings and sculptures portraying laboring bodies, the artist demonstrates that our collective unconsciousness has always been tied to natural cycles. | Sigourney Schultz |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Brooklyn residents are invited to draw a shape that represents Brooklyn through their unique lens. Learn more |
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| | The artist’s ambiguous figures exist in a continual state of metamorphosis between formation and deformation. | Anna Souter |
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In both her art and personal style, Kahlo promoted the construction of a mythologized Indianness at the expense of Indigenous people. | Joanna Garcia Cheran |
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IN MEMORIAM | | Max Kozloff (1933–2025)
American art critic and photographer | Hyperallergic
Paul McDonough (1941–2025)
Street life photographer | New York Times
Robert E. McGinnis (1926–2025)
Painter and illustrator known for James Bond posters | Variety
Ti Pèlen (1959–2025)
Haitian stone sculptor | Artnews
Marharyta Polovinko (1994–2025)
Ukrainian painter, animator, and draftsperson | Artslooker
John Peck (1942–2025)
Underground cartoonist, artist, and critic | New York Times |
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