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Good morning. ☀️ Today, artists withdrew from a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition in solidarity with workers who have been laid off, a leaked recording from the Detroit Institute of Art suggests a toxic workplace, and are we still stuck on the idea of the ownership of art.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

An Ode to the Year That Will Live on in Infamy

The Twenty Twenty exhibition at the Aldrich uses using hand drawing to record and describe the cascade of catastrophes that made 2020 feel like an entire decade.

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