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Artist Minouk Lim wants to offer a very different perspective on how one might deal with a grim history whose effects continue to be felt in the present.
Required Reading
This week: Should Washington have a national memorial for gun violence? Have cats used us to take over the world? What is Cluttercore? And more.
Black Mountain College Artist Jo Sandman Celebrated With Solo Exhibition and Catalogue
Jo Sandman / TRACES opens with a reception for the artist on June 3 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina.
American Museum of Natural History Workers Vote to Unionize
Workers told Hyperallergic that they were tired of meager pay and a lack of job security.
Kojo Marfo’s Portraits Depict the Cracks in Polite Society
The artist’s style blends aesthetic and cultural elements from Ghana, London, and New York’s graffiti scenes.
Call for Applications: $90,000 Fellowship for New Americans Pursuing Graduate School
Funding MFAs and all full-time graduate degrees, the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants and the children of immigrants in the US.
Former Louvre President Charged in Antiquities Trafficking Case
Authorities say Jean-Luc Martinez helped facilitate the Louvre’s purchase of objects illegally pillaged during the Arab Spring.
“Brazen” Couple Tries to Walk Out of Manhattan Gallery With a Basquiat
The suspects attempted to take a Basquiat artwork valued at $45,000 from Taglialatella Galleries but instead made off with a half-empty bottle of whiskey.
Hyundai Motor Group Launches the Fifth VH AWARD for Emerging Asian Media Artists
Five shortlisted applicants will each receive a $25,000 production grant and participate in an online residency program with Eyebeam. The Grand Prix recipient will be awarded an additional $25,000.
10 Films to Get to Know Ukraine
From music and architecture to comedy and horror, these films showcase Ukrainian culture and its long-held ethos of resistance.
Queering the Archive, Tracing One’s History
The artists showcased in Archival Intimacies examine the colonial trauma’s impact on Asian Americans and search for ways to overcome it.
They Tried to Make a Sexy Movie About the Eiffel Tower Engineer
Eiffel inadvertently paints its protagonist not as a great man worthy of scrutiny or praise, but as the Elon Musk of his day.
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Do the strangers whom you choose to spend time with have to be those who cause suffering and death to animals? If you are “disgusted by our President and the Republican Party” (as am I, a socialist), how does spending time with those whose chosen form of recreation mirrors Republican “ethics” help? Hierarchy (with humans at the top), violence, lack of compassion, destroying families, the racism and misogyny that have proven to be far higher among hunters than non-hunters, to name just a few.
If you want to spend time with strangers, how about spending time with those who run vegan hunger organizations—or at any volunteer organization that works to help people and/or animals, w/o adding yet more suffering in the world?