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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Thin as one-thousandth the width of an eyelash, the malign virus appears to us in magnified images as a round glob of genetic material surrounded by a beady shell. The so-called crowns (corona in Latin) on its surface are its means of destruction.
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April 18 marks World Heritage Day. Visit UNESCO World Heritage sites like the Taj Mahal Stonehenge through Google Earth.
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Stuck at home, Banksy has painted his bathroom with his signature cheeky rats, toppling products and ruining his toilet.
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Kevin Fallon, a 30-year-old New Yorker, was arrested on April 11 after police found three pipe bombs in his apartment.
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Twitter was flooded with spot-on parodies of Trump’s task force after Fox News speculated that the council’s members will include Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Steve Mnuchin.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has stalled the anniversary celebrations of the largest museum in the United States.
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Donning face masks and gloves, and standing six feet apart, workers picketed the Seattle museum, saying two union representatives were unjustly targeted.
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On social media, Fauci is being celebrated with admiring portraits, from cartoons to sock puppets bearing his image.
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“Six of the seven permanently laid off workers played key roles in last year’s effort to win union recognition and improve working conditions,” Local 814 tells Hyperallergic.
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Elizabeth Jaeger, an artist, and Cady Chaplin, a nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, started a campaign for artists to submit illustrations, paintings, and digital edits thanking healthcare workers.
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Images from the National Archives Catalog show striking parallels to today’s crisis, from masks to emergency hospitals.
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After making YouTube art tutorials for five years, Jescia Hopper is now streaming live “Quarantine Editions” of her tutorials, making paintings with materials like instant coffee and ketchup.