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ASU Art Museum receives $500K grant to support Latino curators The Arizona State University Art Museum recently received a half million dollar grant that will support Latino curators.Funding came from the Mellon, Ford, Getty and Terra Foundations that provided the award as part of an initiative to support the advancement of Latinx art in museums. Miki Garcia is...

Steve Hampton mobilizes the resources of realism and the strategies of Courbet, Manet and others to question the reality of political images. His work is part of a geopolitical “turn” in painting that has picked up steam in countries around the world in the last decade or more.

Steve Hampton’s trenchant analysis of political power suggests that after the critique Society of Spectacle comes the critique of the Spectacle of Political Power.

Steve Hampton’s work in The Last Days of Empire suggests that we may one day look back on the idea of waring political blocks the way we look at the absurdity of religious wars, cults and other forms of ideological conscription.

Every image in The Last Days of Empire examines the rhetorical strategies of propaganda, patriarchy and power through strategies of selective editing, juxtaposition and unconscious identification.

In The Last Days of Empire Steve Hampton provides us with a cartography of political power that stretches from the past to the present, but which allows us to draw our own conclusions about what it means to live in age of dying empires.

Every image in The Last Days of Empire presents us with what Jacques Derrida would have called the hauntology of ideological dreams in the way that figures in the show are pictured as the embodiment of socio-political projects gone awry.

The Last Days of Empire is a critical look at the rhetorical images of political power. It presents us with an incredible cartography not only of our own political moment but also with a picture of how we got here.

A Big Thank You to Steve Hampton for bringing such a great show to Truly stunning and timely work!

Some pics from our most recent exhibition Steve Hampton: The Last Days of Empire.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see our latest exhibition!

Today is the last day to catch Sense and Counter-Sensibilities at Fine Art Complex from noon-4pm.