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Banana Art

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“Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan, on display in Miami in 2019     Graham Bowley is an investigative reporter for the Culture Desk for The New York Times. He has covered the darkest of darks, and the lightest of lights in arts and culture, from the allegations against Bill Cosby to the opening of National Museum of African American History and Culture.      Bowley's writing style is somewhat analytical. This can be seen from quotes such as:     "I n the case of “Comedian,” the subject is also the art world itself — and questions about who decides what constitutes art, and the huge amounts of money that is spent on it."     " The sly work’s simplicity enticed collectors t o pay as much as $150,000 for it at a Miami art fair last fall, an act of connoisseurship that delighted them but astonished the many people who had not imagined that a, um, “sculpture” of fruit on a wall could command such a price."     Bowley cites hi...

Horned Rioter

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  A piece of graffiti art depicting the US Capitol riots appears in Kent on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage)     The author of the article  " The Capitol Rioter Dressed Up as a Native American Is Part of a Long Cultural History of ‘Playing Indian.’ We Ignore It at Our Peril" Joseph Pierce is a writer that has worked on several political pieces, mostly revolving around Native Americans and their culture. Pierce himself is of the Cherokee Nation  and associate professor in the department of Hispanic languages and literature at Stony Brook University.       Pierce's writing style is mainly analytical. Pierce's writing is analytical when explaining how most imagery linked to Vikings actually comes from Native Americans such as " Viking imagery has been  harnessed  by white supremacists to  reimagine  the past" and " But don’t take my word for it. Ironically, Richard Wagner’s wife, Cosima,  described ...