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.
News
Finds Gone Astray features 40,000 artifacts confiscated from looters and unauthorized dealers in antiquities over the past 50 years. The protestors demand the immediate removal of the exhibition and the repatriation of the stolen items to the Palestinian Authority.
News
Freedom of speech advocates butt heads with institutions protecting the sanctity of religious imagery.
In Brief
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office sent the letter directly to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, voicing disapproval for the museum's exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem.
Art
The Qalandiya International is in its fourth iteration and offers a bounty of solutions for curators working outside centers of power and wealth.
Art
A museum in Jerusalem addresses skeptics who doubt the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth.
News
The new bill suggests that culture organizations that criticize the State of Israel or highlight the Palestinian national narrative will have trouble with government funding.
News
The decision to translate and publish the works of dozens of women authors, without their involvement or approval, points to unethical publishing practices.
News
The Barbur Gallery was targeted by the Israeli Minister of Culture and Mayor of Jerusalem for hosting events with NGO’s dedicated to the end of Palestinian occupation.
Art
After over 180 irreverent exhibitions, a beloved Paris gallery prepares to close its doors.
Film
Maysaloun Hamoud’s film about three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv rattles stereotypes.
Interview
An exhibition in Tel Aviv is reputedly using works by leading Arab artists without their permission, and the curators say they're doing so deliberately to provoke a conversation around the topic of boycott.
Interview
Naomi Safran-Hon has — by her own admission — terrible taste in music, which explains how she became a regular listener of Israel’s trashiest radio station, Galgalatz.