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Exhibition Reviews: What a Good One Actually Tells You Before You Buy a Ticket
Description first, verdict second, and a thesis a reader can check against the walls themselves.
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How to Question a Gatekeeper Like Bowie Did MTV in 1983: A Five-Step Method
The 1983 MTV interview is a masterclass in pressing an institution on its own terms — and the moves still work.
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Who Pays for Murals: Percent-for-Art Ordinances, Nonprofits and the Price of a Wall
Murals are funded chiefly through percent-for-art rules and nonprofit programs, with Philadelphia's 4,000-mural operation supplying the documented costs.
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Performance Art Review: How Critics Write About Work That Exists Only in the Moment
A performance art review weighs time, space, body, presence and audience relation for a work that exists only while it runs, and the published record often outlasts the art.
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Inside Continuum: How a Relief Initiative Connects Iranian Artists to the Global Art World
A nonprofit platform built during wartime shows how curators can move an entire national art scene online when galleries, fairs and travel fail.
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Museums Massachusetts — Massachusetts Museums Worth the Drive From Boston: From the Berkshires to the Pioneer Valley
House museums, college collections and regional institutions that reward leaving the city behind.
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How Artists Make Money — How Artists Actually Make a Living: The Income Streams Behind the Studio Door
Sales, teaching, commissions, licensing and grants form a patchwork. Almost nobody survives on one of them alone.
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Museums on Cape Cod for a Rainy Day, From a 4,000-Work Provincetown Collection to Sandwich Glass
Three documented institutions — the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Sandwich Glass Museum and the Cahoon Museum of American Art — cover a rainy day on Cape Cod.
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Galleries Wellfleet MA — Galleries in Wellfleet, MA: Why a Town of 3,566 Supports a Serious Art Scene
The Outer Cape town ranks second only to Provincetown in gallery density, and the reasons go back further than the summer season.
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Artist Retrospective Review — The Retrospective Verdict: Do Career Surveys Hold Up?
The retrospective is the highest-stakes show a museum can mount. Here is what separates a revelatory survey from a filler wall.