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Enjoy a Day of Free Admission to Hundreds of US Museums, Courtesy of the Smithsonian
On September 21, museums across the country will offer visitors free general admission tickets as part of the 15th annual Smithsonian Museum Day.
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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Post Hurricane Dorian, Pérez Art Museum Miami Collects Aid for the Bahamas
The museum, the City of Miami, and Food For The Poor are collecting urgently needed supplies for survivors of the devastating hurricane in the archipelago.
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Top Fashion Brands Cancel Shows at the Shed Over Board Member's Ties to Trump
Michael Kors, Vera Wang, and Rag & Bone have withdrawn from New York Fashion Week shows hosted at the Shed, according to the New York Post.
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See the Majestic Displays at India's First Contemporary Sculpture Park
The park presents the works of 23 artists in an expansive 18th-century fortress in Jaipur.
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Adjunct Professors Share Salaries and Working Conditions in a New Spreadsheet
The anonymous list, launched by historian Erin Bartram, has garnered about 250 entries so far.
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Mapping Out Jeffery Epstein's Connections and Links to the Art World
New revelations show the sex offender's close ties to the New York Academy of Art, where he served as a board member, and M.I.T. Media Lab, to which he donated almost $1 million
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World Spent $8 Billion on New Cultural Institutions in 2018, Report Says
North America leads in the number of newly completed or announced art museums and other cultural projects, but Asia is catching up with the world's costliest constructions.
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unveils a Series of Green New Deal Art Posters
The posters promote the congresswoman's environmental plan with WPA-style lithographs highlighting monuments from Queens and the Bronx in New York City.
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This Program Gives NYC Art Teachers Free Supplies for the New School Year
Materials for the Arts in Long Island City hosts its fifth annual Back to School Shopping Spree initiative, offering art teachers in public schools reusable items for their classes as an alternative to bearing the cost of art supplies.
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The Museum Trustee Behind a $130 Million Lawsuit to Keep ICE Detainees in Prison
UMB Bank is suing a city in Rhode Island for refusing to house ICE detainees at an affiliated detention center. The bank’s CEO, Mariner Kemper, is also a trustee of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Missouri.
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Artist Nan Goldin Arrested in Protest Outside Governor Cuomo's Office in NYC
The activists are calling on the governor to establish overdose prevention centers to combat the growing opioid epidemic.
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To Mourn the Lives of Drowned Migrants, an Artist Builds a Cemetery in Tunisia
Rachid Koraichi's Jardin d'Afrique (Garden of Africa) will serve as a burial site and memorial for migrants who have died in the Mediterranean Sea. Although it is scheduled to open next spring, the cemetery already buried 56 bodies of drowned migrants.