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Cody Delistraty

Cody Delistraty is a writer and critic based in Paris and New York.

On a viral protest trend and the preposterous history of milk-based eugenics

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What does Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1866 painting ‘Slave Market’ say about today’s extremist politics?

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Ever since the devastating blaze, the cathedral has become a potent symbol, used by everyone from an unpopular president to the far-right 

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How a petition to remove the artwork has raised questions of censorship and identity politics

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As calls intensify for Whitney Museum vice chair Warren B. Kanders to step down, what more can museums do to avoid appointing board members with unethical business ties?

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With a number of museums recently rejecting donations from the Sacklers, how far should ethical funding go?

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‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’

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If Macron and his administration do not control the public narrative of Muslims in France, someone else will

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Following a New York gallery pulling a show after neo-Nazi claims, can we no longer trust in the ‘marketplace of ideas’?

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Artist Trevor Paglen’s plan to launch a sculpture into orbit has drawn criticism from certain astronomers, but are they missing the point?

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Does the French president’s project for a more ‘enlightened’ French youth reveal a hidden agenda?

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A Nobel Prize-winning writer, a misogynist, a small-town boy with a haughty, big-city gaze: Naipaul’s life was marked by a sense of doubleness

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Trump’s State Department is more than 3 months late in announcing its national pavilion – testament to the chaos engulfing the administration

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With Macron poised to make changes to France's handling of ethnographic art, the quai Branly would do well to follow suit

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With 11 of her works on show at the Musée d'Orsay, one of the most underrated artists in modern European history is brought out from the shadows

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The New York museum’s introduction of an admission charge shows us the problem with donor dependence and a hands-off government

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The French President’s recent comments hint at a dubious politics: using art restitution as a stopgap to France’s postcolonial responsibilities

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The staggering price reached by Salvator Mundi prompts the question: what are you really buying when you buy an artwork?

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