Art
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This week, Manhattan offices are still mostly empty, Gwyneth Paltrow releases luxury baby diapers, how to remove your personal data from Google, and much more.
Hakim Bishara
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.
Art
Required Reading
This week, reactions to the leaked Supreme Court draft to overturn abortion rights, La Malinche gets an exhibition, Eric Adams brings his "swagger" to the Met Gala, and what did Leonardo get wrong about trees?
Art
Required Reading
This week, Karl Marx was wrong about "primitive communism," Zoomers say they've had enough of TikTok, and great news: Time travel is within the realm of possibility.
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Spanish Officials Seize Private Taxidermy Collection Worth $31M
Civil Guard agents raided a warehouse near Valencia that housed hundreds of specimens of endangered animals, including at least one extinct species.
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UAE Sentenced a Palestinian Artist to Death for Drug Possession
The artist maintains she was framed after an Emirati police search found half a kilogram of cocaine in her Dubai apartment.
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Montpelier Fires Staffers Who Advocated for the Descendants of Enslaved People
The Montpelier Foundation had stripped descendants of their hard-fought power-sharing status.
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After Santa Fe Petroglyph Vandalism, FBI Is Offering a Reward for Information
The La Cieneguilla petroglyphs in New Mexico were spray-painted with pentagrams, swastikas, and racial slurs earlier this year.
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Israeli Forces Damaged the Historical Stained-Glass Windows of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Videos showed snipers shattering the windows of the mosque’s Qibli prayer hall to point their rifles down at the worshippers.
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As COVID Cases Surge in NYC, Some Museums Are Lifting Their Mask Mandates
The Whitney and MoMA are the first two major art museums to stop enforcing masking and vaccination.
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A New Gallery in Williamsburg Is Betting on Art, Furniture, and Prayer
Run by two recent college graduates, HNH Gallery opened on a 3,000-square-foot space in the buzzing heart of the trendy Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Artist Spray-Paints Massive Graffiti on New Museum
It’s unclear how “Acer," as the anonymous artist is known, evaded the museum’s security officers and surveillance cameras
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After Backlash, SVA Galleries Withdraws From Show Accused of "Exploiting Ukrainian Pain"
An open call for submissions to the show said artworks could not contain documentary images of the war and highlighted the experience of Russian artists.