Category Archives: Museum Studies

It could not have been a more dramatic scene in my hometown, more suited for a made-for-TV movie than a fine-arts news story—a raid removing forgeries hung in a respected museum. On Friday, June 24, 2022, the FBI descended on the Orlando Museum of Art during operation hours, and dozens of agents swarmed through theContinue reading “No Heroes, Only Monsters: Fake Jean-Michel Basquiat Paintings Shown at the Orlando Museum of Art”

For this article I chose to interview another one of my coworkers, Josh Knight.  Together we make up two of the several Teaching Associates within the Visual Arts department at Coastal Carolina University. Josh is a prolific portrait artist and an amazing visual arts instructor at the university. He is of indigenous descent, but that doesn’tContinue reading “An Interview with Visual Artist Josh Knight”

Interviewed by Dr. Anu M. Mitra and featuring art from the Vance Waddell Collection Sara Vance Waddell is one of the foremost collectors of art by women and artists of color, including those recently incarcerated. Her Midwest-based art collection is significant, and she routinely loans her work to important museum exhibitions and collections all overContinue reading “An Interview with Art Collector, Sara Vance Waddell”

Sculptor and performance artist Doreen Lynette Garner is currently exhibiting at The New Museum in New York City. Her show REVOLTED presents a series of sculptures highlighting extreme and cruel medical experimentation on individuals of color. The artist is using her work to tell the history of the enduring effects of racial violence in theContinue reading “The REVOLT of artist Doreen Lynette Garner”

Trans futurity, history, and the body This year, I have found myself startled by the amount of art and inclusion of trans bodies in museum spaces. In the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Fashioning Masculinities, I saw more representation of trans bodies, particularly trans masculine bodies, in a non-queer space. Often, when trans bodies are highlightedContinue reading “Ancient Futures: An Interview with Lio Mehiel”