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Extreme Flooding in Venice Kills Two People; Biennale Shutters As Safety Precaution
Local authorities called for a state of emergency in the worst floods to hit the lagoon city in more than 50 years.
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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Guerrilla Girls Target MoMA Trustees With Ties to Jeffrey Epstein in an Ad Takeover
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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A Night With Yayoi Kusama's Die-hard, Selfie-taking Fans
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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"Anuses on Stems"? Parisians React to Jeff Koons's Gift to the City
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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Iraqi Artists Face Travel Obstacles to Visit Gulf Wars Exhibition at MoMA PS1
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.
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Salvador Dalí's Tarot Cards Will Tell Your Surreal Future
The deck was originally created for the 1970s James Bond film Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore and Jane Seymour, but it never appeared in the picture.
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NYC Culture Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl Resigns in Surprise Announcement
The once omnipotent commissioner leaves his post after a stormy six-year tenure at the commission. The city provided no specific reason for his abrupt resignation.
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$1 Million Inaugural Art Prize Goes to Artist Doris Salcedo
The internationally acclaimed artist is the inaugural recipient of the world's largest art award.
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Artist Hito Steyerl Rebukes German Institutions, Acting in Solidarity With Kurdish People
During a performance piece in Berlin, Steyerl demanded state-run art institutions stop showing her work as part of the country's "external cultural diplomacy" until the country changes its policy toward the Turkish invasion of Kurdish areas in northeast Syria.
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Artist Phil Collins Withdraws From MoMA PS1 Exhibition in Solidarity With Prison Divestment
The video artist withdrew from Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 days ahead of its public opening.
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Notre-Dame and Machu Picchu Join List of World’s Most Endangered Monuments
The World Monuments Watch includes 25 at-risk sites facing encroaching urbanization, political turmoil, natural disaster, and violent conflicts.
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Trump Family Skewered in a New Ad Takeover in NYC
In one poster, Trump is impeached by Speaker Nancy Pelosi ("You're Fired!"); in another, the president's offspring represent "Nepotists for Trump."