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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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.
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The protesters occupied the C subway line from East New York to Chelsea, and were confronted with large police forces at the final stop. One protester was arrested.
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The museum, which preserves the history of one of the first free Black communities in New York, says that if a new crowdfunding campaign does not yield $200,000 before July, it will be forced to shut its doors for lack of resources.
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The Toronto museum will also stop charging added fees for special exhibitions in an effort to increase and diversify its audience.
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British artist Antony Gormley is the first to present new works on the island, a UNESCO world heritage monument and important site in Greek mythology, since was inhabited.
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The idea was inspired by a 1970 drawing depicting a forest entrapped in a big city soccer stadium.
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The students drew parallels and connections between the museum's board of trustee's vice chair and other board members at their universities
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New themed sections focusing on overlooked and under-represented artists save the fair from the crushing boredom of normal blue-chip dealership.
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The activist group says that the new museum is being “built on the back of exploited, indebted, and abused workers."
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The campaign, funded by the Alternative for Germany party, features the 1866 painting "Slave Market" with the caption, "So that Europe won't become Eurabia."
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Surveillance camera footage shows the suspect allegedly walking off with the sculpture in broad daylight.
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An open letter signed by 15 artists and scholars who participated in the conference targets MoMa board member Larry Fink, whose company BlackRock is invested in two of the country's largest prison companies.