ARTnewsMuseums ‘It’s Pretty Dead-On’: Curator Laura Raicovich on a 1954 Article About the State of Western Museums artnews.com - Alex Greenberger Today, critics of museums’ values point to histories of colonialism and structural racism. Museums, they insist, are anything but neutral. In an …
ARTnewsArt The Ideal Museum: Art Historian Kenneth Clark on the Formation of Western Institutions, in 1954 artnews.com - Kenneth Clark The following article first appeared in the January 1954 issue of ARTnews under the headline “The Ideal Museum.” The public art gallery is a relatively …
ARTnews ‘There Has Been Change’: Artist Howardena Pindell on a 1989 Article About U.S. Museums’ Exclusion of Black Artists artnews.com - Alex Greenberger Over the past several years, museums and galleries have made concerted efforts to show work by Black artists, responding to growing calls for equity. …
ARTnews Curator Lauren Haynes Revisits a 1966 Profile of Spiral, Pioneering Black Art Collective artnews.com - Alex Greenberger In 1963, 14 Black artists in New York formed the Spiral group. They met regularly to discuss issues affecting Black artists of the time, mounted one …
ARTnewsThe Arts Mary Weatherford Revisits a 1957 ARTnews Profile of Painter Joan Mitchell artnews.com - Alex Greenberger In 1957, art critic Irving Sandler paid a visit to the studio of painter Joan Mitchell, an Abstract Expressionist known for her brushy images …
