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The Museum Gift Shop Is Where Radical Art Goes to Become Tasteful
Museum shops make art portable, accessible, and ownable. This essay asks what happens when political difficulty is translated into tasteful objects and cultural identity.
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Handmade Has Become the Art World’s Favorite Way to Disguise Labor
An essay on how “handmade” aesthetics can conceal labour, exhaustion, unequal production, and the economic systems behind contemporary art and design.
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Poetry Paintings: Coal, Ash, and the Materiality of Resistance
A project text on poetry, painting, coal, and ash, where language meets fragile material traces and the memory of labour.
Scarlett Guan
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.
Scarlett Guan
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.