All posts in ‘Island Time’

Dreaming of islands at MuCem

Alain Rauwel 18 August 2019

Opinion

Museums need to confront racism

Maria Trujillo 30 June 2020

Marketplace - Deals

Special edition works by Simone Leigh to benefit Color Of Change and the fight against racial injustice

Katherine Keener 29 June 2020

Leading lights - Collectors

Inigo Philbrick’s arrest, explained

Leonidas Kalai 26 June 2020

Art World Roundup: update on theft of “America” and the boy thrown from Tate Modern, recognition of Juneteenth and the Windrush generation, seeing “The Last Supper” in high-def, and more

Katherine Keener 26 June 2020

Must see!

Letting up on lockdown: The National Gallery will reopen next week, leading the way for UK museums

While the US will celebrate Independence Day this Saturday, people across the UK will be celebrating, too, for at long last (but not long enough for some), strict lockdown measures will begin to ease. Pubs, restaurants, and barbers will be among those turning the lights on for the first time in since March and some […]

Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death review

Fifteen art institutions will be simultaneously livestreaming ‘Love is the Message, The Message Is Death,’ a 2016 video work by Arthur Jafa, over the course of 48 hours starting June 26. The initiative is spearheaded by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which jointly acquired the work in 2018. […]

“Love is the Message, The Message is Death” by Arthur Jafa will be livestreamed for 48 hours straight this weekend

In 2016, off the heels of Donald Trump winning the US presidential election, artist Arthur Jafa debuted Love is the Message, The Message is Death, a video installation that compiles various photographs, video clips, and sounds depicting the lived Black experience in the US. Today, Jafa’s work is ever more poignant as recent events, including […]

New York museum vows to remove problematic statue of Theodore Roosevelt

An equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt, the US’s 26th president, has stood outside of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City for 80 years. Depicting Roosevelt, atop his horse, flanked by an African man and a Native American man walking on either side, the statue puts the men in an obvious […]