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In Japan, Enormous Straw Sculptures Pop Up After Annual Rice Harvest
The Wara Art Festival was founded as a solution to the Niigata farming community's excess of unused rice straw.
Hakim Bishara
Hakim Bishara is Hyperallergic's Editor-in-Chief. He is a recipient of the 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant, and he holds an MFA in Art Writing from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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Strike MoMA Announces “Phase 2” of Protests
The protest relaunch will kick off a week of activities and organizing leading up to a city-wide action on September 17 under the slogan "Globalize the Intifada."
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Maya Stone Monuments Are Latest Additions to the Met Museum’s Great Hall
Loaned to the Met by the Republic of Guatemala, the two stelae feature life-sized representations of influential Indigenous American rulers.
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Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2021
Your useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest this week.
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"Artists Aren't Just About What They Produce": A Different Kind of Art Weekend in Upstate NY
At Stoneleaf, artists aren’t expected to produce any particular work or contribute to a show.
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Installation Commemorates Murdered Journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Saudi Crown Prince’s Birthday
The oversized pen bleeds red over a sheet of paper inscribed with the names of over 140 prisoners of conscience in Saudi Arabia.
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Bard College Receives $50M for Curatorial Studies From Hessel Foundation and George Soros
Two $25 million gifts will support financial aid, contemporary art collecting, and more at the institution.
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Someone Spray-painted a Museum of Modern Art Entrance
A video shows the museum’s glass facade and revolving doors splashed with white and green paint.
In Brief
This Instagram Account Catalogues the Curious Ways People Stand
The popular account presents a gallery of hundreds of photos of people from around the world struggling to stand vertically.
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A COVID-19 Mask That Kills the Virus? Scientists Say Yes
The technology is named "SakCu" — a combination of "Sak," the word for silver in Mayan, and "Cu," the chemical symbol for copper.
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John Oliver's New Satire Program Gives $10,000 Grants to Five Struggling US Museums
The museums were selected from a pool of 1,000 applicants to the talk show host’s “weird art” competition.
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NYC Art Teachers Can Drop by This Warehouse for Free Supplies
Art educators are welcomed to a sprawling warehouse in Queens for a “Back to School Shopping Spree," hosted curbside for the first time.