Podcast: Fact-Checking Artnet’s Burns Halperin Report
The Burns Halperin Report by Artnet, which claims to reveal an “entrenched system of racism and sexism” in…
ARTWORLD FACT CHECK: The Burns Halperin Report
Artnet News released its 2022 Burns Halperin Report at the end of last year. It has, or had, legs in the media, with uncritical recapitulations of its claims appearing in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Financial Times,
BLACK HISTORY’S OVERLOOKED BOOKS
The books listed below suggest that February might be better called Black Histories Month, given that Black American artists and their artistic methods, personal philosophies, and aspirations have taken different routes. These divergences are both more compelling to study and more accurate to reality than picturing the past in overly broad strokes. Some books are easier to find than others. All are worth the effort.
NEVER NOT A SUCCESS
If the art industry press has paid less attention to Richard Hunt than to other Chicago artists (e.g., Kerry James Marshall , William Pope L., Theaster Gates, Gladys Nilsson, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, etc.) or other Black American artists who work in sculpture
THE KOSTABI EFFECT
In this four-part series, Arts Magazine’s editor Rob Colvin examines the work of 80+ contemporary painters – including Nicolas Party, Julie Curtiss, Emily Mae Smith,
PORTIA ZVAVAHERA
In this review, Zvavahera is also seen as one of a growing number of Black artists, such as Genesis Tremaine, placing religion – Christianity, in particular