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Claire Voon

Claire Voon is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Singapore, she grew up near Washington, D.C. and is now based in Chicago. Her work has also appeared in New York Magazine, VICE, Gothamist, Artnews, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Village Voice. Find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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Union Workers Rally at Tate Modern, Protesting Corporate Sponsor

by Claire Voon April 17, 2018March 8, 2023

The protest, organized by Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, targeted financial firm Ernst & Young, a major sponsor of shows at Tate.

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An Afrofuturist Graphic Novel Revives the Lost Histories of Women-Led Slave Revolts

by Claire Voon April 17, 2018April 17, 2018

Erased from history books, the stories and roles of women in slave revolts will now be told in vivid form by Rebecca Hall.

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New Public Sculpture Will Honor Court Case That Expanded Rights for Asian Americans

by Claire Voon April 16, 2018

A public sculpture in New Mexico will commemorate a little-known court ruling that gave Asian Americans the right to testify before a judge.

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Florida Museum Unearths Ancient Mosaics It Buried Years Ago and Lost Track Of

by Claire Voon April 12, 2018April 13, 2018

In the 1960s museum officials buried the mosaics as a mysterious storage solution that puzzles staff to this day.

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Photographer Accused of Sexual Harassment Asks ICA Boston to Take Down His Exhibition

by Claire Voon April 12, 2018

The museum will close the show 10 days early, in accordance with the wishes of Nicholas Nixon, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several of his former students.

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“Fearless Girl” Sculptor Is Selling $6,500 Reproductions

by Claire Voon April 11, 2018April 11, 2018

One-fifth of the proceeds will go to nonprofits that empower young women and support gender equality.

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Using Drones, Researchers Discover New Nazca Lines in Peru

by Claire Voon April 11, 2018

Researchers have identified over 50 massive, long-unseen geogylphs that date from between 500 BCE to 200 CE — centuries before the time of the known Nazca lines.

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New Plates by Judy Chicago Serve Up Feminist History

by Claire Voon April 10, 2018April 11, 2018

The new series of limited edition ‘The Dinner Party’ plates will inevitably spark conversations around the rich heritage of women in the Western world.

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Clumsy Churchgoer Destroys Jeff Koons “Gazing Ball” by Touching It

by Claire Voon April 10, 2018April 10, 2018

The glass work, on display in a temporary exhibition, was reduced to a pile of fragments on the last day the show was open.

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Woman Steals $17,500 Rock from Yoko Ono Installation

by Claire Voon April 9, 2018

The perpetrator, who was caught on camera, took the rock from a participatory installation called “Stone Piece” at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto.

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A Playable Archive of 74 Retro Games, Including Frogger, Tamagotchi, and Donkey Kong

by Claire Voon April 9, 2018June 15, 2022

The Internet Archive has uploaded emulations of classic games to Handheld History, a free digital library, allowing for old-school experiences on modern computers.

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An Artist’s Troll Den Embodies the Messy Spectacle of the Internet

by Claire Voon April 6, 2018April 6, 2018

Trolls in the 21st-century exert their presence and identity in digital spaces, but Molly Colleen O’Connell makes them physical. Don’t feed them.

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