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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The beloved gallery, which gave exhibition opportunities to emerging artists and curators, cited a "confluence of resource challenges and a shifting environment for non-profits" as the reason for its closing after its current season.
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"By failing to pay interns, we ensure that these experiences are only really accessible to those who already financially secure," said Jill Medvedow, ICA Boston's director and co-author of the resolution.
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The museum shrouded the painting to ask the question: “What would the Met’s walls look like if there were no refugees?” Works by other famous artists including Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, and Mark Rothko are labeled as works "made by a refugee.”
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Leading Jewish studies scholars came out in defense of Peter Schäfer, himself a prominent Talmud Scholar, and called accusations of anti-Semitism against him "false" and "outrageous."
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Peter Schäfer stepped down from his post after the museum faced criticism for tweeting out an open letter opposing the labeling of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) as anti-Semitic.
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BAM administrative workers and cinema staff voted in favor of forming BAM’s seventh union by an 82% margin. "It's heartening to see workers coming together and standing up for themselves," one employee tells Hyperallergic.
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Artist Dan Lam claims in a lawsuit that Mamacha café and its hosting gallery the Hole failed to pay her for works sold in a 2018 exhibition, for damaging others, and failing to return unsold works.
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#NoKidsInCages, 24 installations commissioned by an immigration legal services nonprofit, were placed in front of media companies, cultural institutions, and other busy New York landmarks.
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About 100 Hong Kong arts organizations, including commercial galleries, announced a strike against a bill that would allow extraditing fugitives to mainland China.
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A group of 15 protesters occupied El Museo’s galleries to read out the Mirror Manifesto, an open letter that Latinx activists released in April in an attempt to steer the museum back toward its roots as a community-based institution.
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According to the Freelands Foundation, the public sector has achieved "incremental improvements" in gender parity compared to past years, but the chances for career success are still skewed against women artists.
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The Daily Targum, Rutgers's 150-year-old student newspaper, is struggling for financial survival after it lost most of its funding in a recent student referendum.