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“Breachheads” (2021) 14” x 11” pen and ink on paper, digital color (illustration by the author)
As we watched the outgoing president’s cult of rabid followers storm the capital, we spectators could at least feel secure in the knowledge that populism is not a significant part of the art world we are part of.
Trump appears to have sparked a progressive uprising in the art world, but it is not really an uprising. On closer inspection, there is an asymmetric battle between a grassroots struggle to redistribute power and those who place institutional preservation at the center.
Students can expect to pay significantly less than half the cost of attendance of equivalent private graduate programs, thanks to the college’s position in the SUNY system.
Through hashtags and others forms of social content, the K-pop idol group creates an open, interpretative framework for the back-and-forth exchanges of visual content and meanings between BTS and its fandom, called ARMY.
A sense of risk permeates mainstream stories about the dark web. This unsafeness attracted the attention of those artists and creatives who critically focus on the study of digital tools.
Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been a sticking point in popular culture for over 100 years (Sondheim, anyone? Bueller? Bueller?) and now it’s ready to take its place in your wardrobe, where it would look splendid next to any of the other art-historical socks we carry.
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