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Eric Vilas-Boas

Eric Vilas-Boas is the former managing editor of Hyperallergic. He has previously worked at Thrillist, Esquire, SPIN, Donorschoose.org, and his writing has appeared at Vulture, Slashfilm, Lit Hub, Paste, TV Guide, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country, and other outlets. He also co-edits the animation blog The Dot and Line.

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Saying Goodbye to the Newseum in the Age of Fake News

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas January 7, 2020November 2, 2020

It felt important to visit the Newseum 10 years ago, when every journalist I knew still believed great reporting would always win. Now, in the wake of its recent closure, the delusory nature of that kind of thinking doesn’t get any more obvious.

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Changing Minds on the Climate Crisis, One Conversation at a Time

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas November 12, 2019November 13, 2019

A public assembly at the Queens Museum will discuss the Green New Deal sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey.

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Centering the African Diaspora in Comics and Cartoons

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas November 12, 2019November 12, 2019

A new exhibition recognizes the importance of representation both on the comics page and in the hands of the artists making them.

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Rembrandt van Rijn Etching Sells for Over $80,000 at Swann Galleries Sale

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas November 7, 2019

Plus, the iconic black outfit worn by Olivia Newton-John in the film Grease has sold, along with a $4 million painting by Édouard Manet.

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A Brutal, Historic Film About Decolonization

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas November 4, 2019November 4, 2019

Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is one of the great films in history to depict insurgent warfare, and New Yorkers can see it for free this week.

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Irving Penn’s 1948 Vogue Photograph of Peruvian Children Sells for Over $93,000

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas October 31, 2019

Plus, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security returned a marble head of the god Pan to Italy, and the most expensive Pokemon card of all time has sold.

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Learn How to Volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas October 28, 2019

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 1,400 volunteers, but it’s looking for more.

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Visions of the World as a Brutal Dystopia

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas October 28, 2019October 15, 2022

Author Luke O’Neil will read passages from his brutal new book Welcome to Hell World, a text that starkly explores grim current events in the United States.

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A View From the Easel

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas October 25, 2019October 25, 2019

This week, artist studios in Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

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Two 160-Year-Old Books of Classical Poetry Annotated by Herman Melville Sell for Over $106,000

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas October 24, 2019October 24, 2019

Plus, London’s Design Museum got a £3 million reprieve, and architect Junya Ishigami wins one of the world’s richest architecture awards.

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Memorializing an Artist 34 Years After He Lost His Life to AIDS

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas October 23, 2019

This gallery talk with friends of Nicolas Moufarrege will explore his life and work as a New York artist who — like so many — died far too young.

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Hear Hans Haacke Discuss His Six-Decade Career

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas October 22, 2019October 22, 2019

The artist is nothing if not defiant, and his talk at the New York’s New Museum will introduce his first major U.S. exhibition in 33 years.

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