The Problem With Art Awards

The Problem With Art Awards

Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power structures and maintain the status quo? Damien Davis argues it's the latter in an opinion piece just in time for awards season. Give it a read.Also today: disturbing revelations from the University of North Texas, which nixed an artist's anti-ICE show last month, Michael Glover on Lucian Freud's paintings of "lostness," Lori Waxman on a quirky mi…