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Manhattan Museum Will Renovate and Alter Landmarked Church, Prompting Backlash
Some community members have opposed the Children’s Museum of Manhattan plans to relocate to a former church on the Upper West Side.
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.
Art
Find Your Astrological Demon in This Rare Guide on Persian Mysticism
In Princeton's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections lies an illustrated manuscript on magic and astrology from Iran that includes 56 painted illustrations of demons and angels.
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Historic Prints Made by Japanese Fishermen Help Track Endangered Species
Gyotaku prints, made by pressing a fish covered in ink on paper, have been a credible research tool to examine marine biodiversity.
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Dawoud Bey and Deborah Kass Among 1,400 Artists to Endorse Elizabeth Warren
Concurrent to the Super Tuesday primaries, over 1,400 artists, writers, musicians, and creative professionals endorsed Elizabeth Warren as the Democratic nominee.
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Protesters Occupy MoMA PS1, Calling Museum “Complicit in Global Violence”
For the closing of The Gulf Wars exhibition, one of the participating artists, Ali Yass, planned a guerrilla action to tear his drawings off the walls.
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Scorched Museum of Chinese in America Archives Building Will Be Rebuilt
The announcement quelled concerns by community members that the city had neglected its pledge to help recover the museum’s damaged archives.
Books
A Kuwaiti Artist Photographs Women in the Intimate Sanctuary of Their Bedrooms
With her latest photography book, Maha Alasaker offers an authentic glimpse into the daily lives of Kuwaiti women, untainted by orientalist prejudice.
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An "Atlas of Hate" Maps Poland's Anti-LGBTQ Governments
The map responds to the more than 80 Polish municipal and local governments that announced themselves as “free from LGBT ideology.”
In Brief
In Blow to LACMA, Major Donor Ends Decades-long Gift Program
The Ahmanson Foundation, a Los Angeles-based organization that supported the LACMA for more than six decades, has ceased gifts to the museum citing concerns over plans for its new building.
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Nan Goldin and Kara Walker Among 665 Artists to Endorse Bernie Sanders
“We strongly feel that only Sanders represents the values and virtues which all of us as cultural producers have always hoped to strive for,” the letter reads.
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Coronavirus Outbreak Shutters Italian Museums; Event Cancellations Continue in China and South Korea
Amid reports on six deaths from the virus, authorities have instructed museums and festivals in Italian cities like Venice, Turin, and Milan to cease their operations for at least a week.
Art
The Artist Who Ate the Art Basel Banana Returns With a Surprisingly Sentimental Exhibition of His Own
For The Hungry Artist Exhibit, David Datuna invites us to reenact the “performance piece” in which he ate Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 banana artwork.