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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Poster House will open on June 20 with a survey of the works of famed Art Nouveau poster designer Alphonse Mucha and a selection of works by the German design collective Cyan.
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Mister ArtSee received an in-kind donation of over 100,000 art education books and kits to be distributed to children in public schools throughout NYC.
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Oktay Ince, a longtime video activist fighting to retrieve an archive worth 20 years of his work, was held in police custody and accused of terrorist propaganda after he chained himself to a pole outside the culture ministry in Ankara.
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In response, artist and data journalist Mona Chalabi offered her version of what the composition of a museum collection should look like if it were to represent the entire population.
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The textile banner will stretch 1.9 miles long and feature paintings by hundreds of local artists, portraits of fallen activists, and signatures of thousands of protesters.
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The honorary landmark in Glencoe, Illinois sold for $555,000. Its new owners asked for a demolition permit two weeks after the purchase.
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Sunil Abraham, a quantitative researcher from Brooklyn, made 87 cutouts from the famous hangings.
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The anonymous artist set up a stall to showcase paintings of a cruise ship parked in the canal surrounding the city.
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The shift will be funded with a $10 million donation from MOCA Board of Trustees President Carolyn Clark Powers, who says: "Charging admission is counterintuitive to art’s ability and purpose to connect, inspire, and heal people.”
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A BAM employee says the union for administrative workers and cinema staff has been in the works for a year and a half, after workers “noticed a lack of transparency and discrepancies in codes of standards of conduct that BAM was holding for itself.”
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The two artists unveiled a new line of shell cameos made into rings, earrings, cufflinks, and pendants at the opening of the Venice Biennale.
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An altered replica of the Whitney Museum's spring guide, released by the collective (D)IRT, was created in an effort to educate museum visitors about the Whitney's relationship to gentrification, diversity, and controversies surrounding its board.