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Repository 174: Tee-ing Up With Artist Charles McGill
I recently received an email from an artist recommending I check out their current show up in NYC. As with all of life, serendipity reared its head. While I have not met Charles McGill, his work felt similar to some recent work that I have obsessed over (punching bags by artist Jeffrey Gibson). A compelling combination of art and sports, with a violent and gentle presentation of the irrational political structures of race. While Gibson covers actual punching bags with…
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Repository 125: Racism Revealed at Dermatologist’s Office
Recently I’ve been invited to teach a course on exhibitions that changed the world. The class starts in April, and I’ve been doing loads of research on this to prepare. This week I landed on the 1930’s where I inevitably hit upon the infamous “entartete Kunst” or “Degenerate Art” exhibit warning Europeans of the degenerate qualities of modern art. These exhibits were a climax of years of warning the public of “art and race” and the fact that intentions behind…
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