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Wolfgang Tillmans Gets Artists to Sell $50 Posters for Global Fundraiser
The 2020Solidarity fundraiser features posters by Tillmans and other acclaimed artists like Nicole Eisenman, Betty Tompkins, and David Wojnarowicz.
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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Metropolitan Museum Lays Off 81 Employees; Now Estimates $150M in Losses
The laid-off workers belong to the visitor services and retail departments. The Met’s director and president will take 20% pay cuts.
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Museums Worldwide Post the Creepiest Objects in Their Collections
A social media challenge by the Yorkshire Museum prompted institutions to share chilling photos of objects, including a preserved a taxidermic “mermaid” and a pincushion made to look like childrens’ heads.
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NYC’s Lesley Heller Gallery Will Close Permanently
The COVID-19 crisis has had tremendous impact on small and mid-sized galleries in New York.
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Artists, Scholars, and Museum Workers Petition Museums to Retain Staff During Pandemic
“Before a single museum worker is laid off, let every mid-six- or seven-figure museum director draw a salary of zero,” reads one petition.
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The Pandemic’s Invisible Agent
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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Virtually Tour World Heritage Sites
April 18 marks World Heritage Day. Visit UNESCO World Heritage sites like the Taj Mahal Stonehenge through Google Earth.
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How Is Banksy Spending Quarantine? By Turning His Bathroom Into a Work of Art
Stuck at home, Banksy has painted his bathroom with his signature cheeky rats, toppling products and ruining his toilet.
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NYC Man Arrested for Threatening to Bomb Central Park’s Alice in Wonderland Sculpture
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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Memes Liken Trump’s “Council to Re-open America” to Scrooge McDuck and Skeletor
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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After 150 Years, Looking Back at the Metropolitan Museum’s 10 Most Visited Exhibitions
The COVID-19 pandemic has stalled the anniversary celebrations of the largest museum in the United States.
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Frye Art Museum Workers Say Layoffs Motivated by Union Busting
Donning face masks and gloves, and standing six feet apart, workers picketed the Seattle museum, saying two union representatives were unjustly targeted.