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A Monument to Tourists Killed By Wolves in NYC Tells a Tall Tale
The monument, erected by the Ed Koch Wolf Foundation, is “a reminder as to why the parks close at dusk.”
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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Minor Offenders Can Substitute Jail Time With an Art Class at the Brooklyn Museum
The new program allows people arrested for minor offenses, like shoplifting or painting graffiti, to avoid jail time and a court appearance by taking a two-hour course.
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Art Handlers Rally in Long Island City Ahead of a Union Vote
"The tactics used against us have been brutal, nasty, coercive," said one of the workers employed by UOVO, a high-end art logistics company. "What we're asking for is just the ability to bargain as equals."
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Central Park Women's Suffrage Monument Approved After Months of Heated Debate
Following criticism over the historical accuracy of previous proposals, the statue was revised again to reflect differences of opinion between abolitionist Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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Cultural Boycott of Turkey Led by Major Scholars and Artists
A group of 280 leading scholars, writers, and artists — including Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, and Brian Eno — signed the petition in response to Turkey's invasion of Kurdish regions in northeastern Syria.
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Seven Arrested in Protests Outside Museum of Modern Art Calling for Removal of Trustee
The protestors blocked the entrance to the museum and interrupted traffic on 53rd Street to demand the removal of MoMA trustee Steven Tananbaum, a hedge fund manager accused of profiting from Puerto Rico's debt crisis.
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This Is What the World's First Travel Guide Looks Like
This first edition of the 15th-century book Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam features the first accurate printed illustrations of Jerusalem and Venice, among other cities.
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Activists Crash Private Party at the Museum of Modern Art to Demand Prison Divestment
The protesters gathered outside the museum to call on MoMA and its board member Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, to divest themselves from private prison companies.
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Buy a Banksy Online, Weird Restrictions Apply
Prices are affordable in the artist's new digital shop, but that doesn't mean the products will be easy to purchase.
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Hobby Lobby Will Return Biblical Antiquities Allegedly Stolen by Oxford Professor
The Museum of the Bible, founded by the owners of arts-and-crafts store chain Hobby Lobby, will turn over biblical fragments it had acquired from an Oxford professor.
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Long-Lost Chapter of the World’s First Novel Found in a Tokyo Home
Before now, only four of 54 chapters from the Tale of Genji had been confirmed as original transcriptions.
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Hundreds March from American Museum of Natural History to Metropolitan Museum for Anti-Columbus Day Tour
For its fourth annual Anti-Columbus Day Tour, Decolonize This Place reiterated its demands that AMNH remove its controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt