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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A month ahead of its opening in Beijing, an exhibition by Chinese-American artist Hung Liu was canceled after local authorities objected to some of the works and refused to issue import permits for others.
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Selections from the trove donated by the late Jayne Wrightsman includes stunning works by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Jean François de Troy, and Eugène Delacroix.
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After the Italian government declared a state of emergency and issued an international appeal for donations, locals are rushing to save the city's libraries, museums, and churches.
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Under new articles in the country’s antiquities protection law, climbing monuments and smuggling antiquities out of the country will result in high fines and jail sentences.
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More than 260 leading writers, journalists, and artists signed a PEN America letter calling on the Indian government to reverse its decision to rescind a citizenship document for Aatish Taseer. Signatories include Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Christiane Amanpour.
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President Xi Jinping, expressed his support of Greece's request to win back the 2,500-year-old friezes after 30 years of British refusal.
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Ruya Foundation, the Baghdad-based nonprofit foundation that organized the country's pavilion, announced a strike last week.
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Local authorities called for a state of emergency in the worst floods to hit the lagoon city in more than 50 years.
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After posting about Leon Black and Glenn Dubin's alleged connections to the sex offender online, Guerrilla Girls partnered with Art in Ad Places to send a message to the museum.
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Our reporter visited the public opening of Yayoi Kusama's new exhibition at David Zwirner to ask fans why they’d waited hours for a 30-second glimpse at one of her world-famous infinity rooms.
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Our reporter spoke with Parisians and tourists to hear their opinion of the artist's controversial gift to the city, a monumental "Bouquet of Tulips."
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Some of the artists participating in the exhibition were denied travel visas to the US, while others had no chance of attending the exhibition's opening because of Trump's travel ban or their asylum status in other countries.