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Art Institutions Share Secrets to Kick Off #MuseumWeek
Yesterday marked the beginning of Museum Week, an annual social media campaign that gives museums around the world the opportunity to engage with the public in a number of ways.
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.
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A New Independent Radio Station Broadcasts from a Brooklyn Shipping Container
A sliver of land lying on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint border, long a neighborhood mystery home to a lone and enigmatic RV, now hosts a tiny independent radio station broadcasting music to listeners around the world.
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Donald Trump Tombstone Appears, and Swiftly Disappears, in Central Park
Donald Trump is dead. Or at least, that's what one presumably left-leaning prankster wanted Central Park visitors to think over the weekend.
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Syrian Army Liberates Ancient City of Palmyra from ISIS [UPDATED]
The Syrian regime has taken complete control of the ancient city of Palmyra, which had been occupied by ISIS since last May.
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Artist Invites Havana Locals into His Studio for Free High-Speed Wifi
Artist Alexis Leiva Machado, who works under the pseudonym Kcho, has partnered with Google to bring high-speed wifi to the Cuban public at rates nearly 70 times faster than services currently available — and at no cost to users.
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The Artist Who Moved a Detroit House to Europe Left a Mess Behind [UPDATED]
Last month, Berlin-based Ryan Mendoza pissed off a lot of people when he tore down an abandoned house in Detroit and shipped the structure off for display at this year's Art Rotterdam.
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Amassing the World's Largest Digital Transgender Archive
From letters written by female impersonators to illustrated guides to cross-dressing, material chronicling the experiences of transgender people is currently being digitized and catalogued online.
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New Zealand Votes to Preserve Colonial-era Flag
After a nearly yearlong process that involved two national referendums and that cost taxpayers US$17.6 million, New Zealanders have finally voted to hold on to the flag their country has been flying for 114 years.
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From Kittens to Curling, Thousands of European Lantern Slides Are Going Online
Tens of thousands of magic lantern slides, for decades hidden in the collections of museums and archives across Europe, are currently being digitized and released into the public domain.
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Poll: What Does This Aggressively Restored 9th-Century Moorish Castle Look Like?
An architect's restoration of a 9th-century Moorish castle in southern Spain has drawn outcry from locals and historians, with many drawing comparisons between the registered national monument's new look and the infamous case of Beast Jesus.
Books
Photos Capture the Rise of a Carefully Crafted Chinese Celebrity
The name of Chinese actress and pop singer Fan Bingbing has been cropping up more and more frequently in the headlines of Western news publications.
Art
A Sprawling Tapestry’s Surreal Visions of Egypt
WASHINGTON, DC — In 2011, the Egyptian-Lebanese artist Lara Baladi began her ongoing project Vox Populi, Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, her attempt to archive the flood of documentation that emerged out of the events of Tahrir Square and its aftermath.