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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#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.
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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.