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In Hannibal, the terrible Ridley Scott-directed sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, Gary Oldman plays an antagonist named Mason Verger. Verger is a wealthy pedophile who was once a…
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The President wants to ruin your summer. Don't let him.
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Today: Centers
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"How was I to know / She was with the Russians too?"
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During Souza's tenure as President Obama’s photographer, he was conscious of and his work reflected the digitization of the practice of photography.
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News
Rothko Chapel to Host Program on Immigration & Family Separation
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechThis coming week, on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, Houston’s Rothko Chapel will host a program on immigration and family separations. Designed as a non-partisan event, Immigration and Family Separation Crisis: A Call…
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News
Using Art to Protest Family Separations on the U.S.-Mexico Border
by Brandon Zechby Brandon ZechThis Sunday, July 8, 2018, the Texas-based civic engagement organization Jolt Texas is organizing a caravan from Austin to Brownsville with the goal of using art to protest family separations on the…
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Earlier this week, President Trump signed S. 188, a bill known as the “Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting Act” or the “EGO Act” into law. According to the White House’s website, the act…
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Podcast
Art Dirt: The Border Wall Doesn’t Make Donald Trump A Conceptual Artist
by Glasstireby GlasstireIn our latest Art Dirt podcast, Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees discuss artist Christoph Büchel’s proposal to designate the prototypes for a wall between the US and Mexico as a national monument,…
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News
Happy Valentine’s Day to the NEA! (Donald Doesn’t Really Love You)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonArtforum recently quoted Americans for the Arts president and CEO Robert L. Lynch: “The nation’s arts and culture industry supports 4.8 million jobs and yields a $26 billion trade surplus…
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Glasstire has written much about Marizio Cattelan’s solid eighteen karat gold toilet (here, here, here, and here), from its year-long installation in the fourth-floor restroom of the Guggenheim Museum, to…
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Earlier this week, the US government’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality. Passed in 2015 under the Obama administration, the net neutrality regulation allowed stronger government oversight…
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News
Art by Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy up for Auction this Week in Dallas
by Glasstireby GlasstireThis week, a Dallas-based auction house is offering up a chance to own pieces of presidential art history. Along with “The Bugle Which Sounded Taps for Lincoln” and a daguerreotype…
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Some clever soul or souls has launched an Instagram profile: “Donald J Trump – Art Critic.” This Trump describes himself as an “Art Critic based in New York & President…
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In 2005, future President Trump created a drawing of the Manhattan skyline for a charity auction promoting worldwide literacy, reports artnet News. Last night it sold at auction for $29,184.…
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Podcast
Art Dirt 8: Sex Robots, Scaramucci’s Mark Twain Tweet, When Artists’ Ideas Are Stolen
by Glasstireby GlasstireChristina Rees and Rainey Knudson discuss this week's art news.
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You can only resist something worthy of resisting.
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News
Trump’s Proposed Budget to Kill National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonYesterday, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for the Federal government for FY 2018. The budget was given the fancy title “A New Foundation for American Greatness” and it…
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Toilets that have been spray painted gold and labeled “Take a Trump” have been popping up across the country to commemorate President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office. A stencil…