These days, all eyes are on the historic pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia University and other campuses across the United States. Will the protesters be violently evicted? Will Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik be forced out of her job? Both might happen by the time you read this. In the meantime, see some of the most creative artwork at the protests in New York and read what art students and faculty have to say to their university leaderships.
Student-led protests are also taking place in Argentina, where Trump-clone President Javier Milei has slashed public education and culture budgets. See images from the mass demonstrations in our report.
Also today, our staff writer Rhea Nayyar has some shrewdthoughts about a new sculpture depicting Queen Elizabeth II with her three Corgis. And as always, there’s much more.
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Visual arts faculty, alumni, and staff are standing in solidarity with students as “art corners” and other creative initiatives dominate the encampments.
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Thousands of demonstrators across Argentina advocate for university funding amid right-wing President Javier Milei’s steep budget cuts.
Staff at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art released an open letter urging the institution to issue a statement on Israel’s war on Palestine.
Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum has removed an Ancient Roman statuary head from view and is set to return it to Turkey.
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At the core, all of Watt’s work shows a devotion to care and closeness, a desire to make tangible the layers of relations that bind and make us.
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Chloe Scout Nix and Lena Smart challenge the distorted body images that prevail in mainstream media.
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The peoples crushed under British imperialism might not find Hywel Pratley's tribute to the late monarch and her dogs so endearing.
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Alain Kassanda’s Coconut Head Generation is a testament to how young people find themselves through each other no matter the place, times, or means.
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