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Activists Renew Calls for Penn Museum to Repatriate Skulls of Enslaved People
Philadelphia activists accuse the museum of lack of transparency in its proceedings to repatriate the crania.
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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Bronx Artists Collaborated to Refurbish Community Park Until the City Locked Them Out
Last August, the North Bronx Collective started cleaning up Tibbett’s Tail and have since opened a food distribution site at the park.
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Bill to Expand African Burial Ground National Monument
Over 15,000 enslaved and free Black people were buried at the site during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Hudson Yards Vessel to Be Dismantled and Sold as NFT
The structure, which has proved a danger to the public due to its low guardrails, will be destroyed.
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Massive Lego Kingdoms That Defy the Cultural Erasure of Africa’s Medieval Civilizations
In an ongoing series of Lego-made sculptures, Ekow Nimako imagines the legacies of past sub-Saharan civilizations into the distant future.
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LGBTQ Artist and Activist Targeted by Tunisian Police
Rania Amdouni is one of many Tunisian LGBTQ activists who report being routinely targeted and attacked by the country’s security forces.
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What Can Museums and Art Orgs Do to Counter Anti-Asian Hate?
“We are tired of the awkward silences and toothless affirmations,” shared the advocacy group Stop DiscriminAsian.
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Artist Coalition Announces 10-week “Strike” Against MoMA
The campaign is a collaboration by members of 12 activist-artist organizations, including Decolonize This Place, Forensic Architecture, and MoMA Divest.
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Museums Respond to and Reflect on Atlanta Hate Crime
“This is a frightening escalation of the racial violence targeting Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) across the country since the pandemic began,” says a statement by the Museum of Chinese in America, one of many institutions to respond to the murders.
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Behind the Scenes of MoMA PS1 Exhibition, Artists Confronted Leadership Over Chairman’s Implication in Iraq War
Artists included in the Gulf Wars exhibition say they were disregarded and demeaned after speaking up against MoMA Chairman Leon Black, owner of a security firm linked to untold carnage in Iraq.
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A Ranking of the World’s Most Instagrammed Museums
An analysis ranked the world’s 20 most Instagrammed art museums based on the number of related hashtags for each museum.
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Qatari Foundation Steps in to Prevent Deaccession of Islamic Artifacts at Israeli Museum
The deal struck by the Al Thani Collection with the Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem extends financial support in exchange for loans to the foundation.