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This week, digital media and virality, sleepovers at LA’s Last Bookstore, deconstructing “fusion” cuisine, Harvard’s dubious donors, Mr. Pillow owes $5M, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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This week, uncovering clues about the Benin Bronzes, the British Museum takes everything but a joke, Hollywood writers vote on a strike, and popcorn bags can do what?
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This week, the death of handwriting, how to spot far-right imagery, queerness is African, and is breakfast a colonial construct?
Satire
MoMA to Co-Curate Exhibition With NYPD
Arrest Me, Daddy hopes to cast a more positive light on the work of law enforcement officers.
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Repatriation-Inspired Fragrance Line Hopes to Heal Collector Wounds
The exotic scents of the Rapatriement line offer solace and joy to dismayed collectors who were forced to return looted artifacts.
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Special Edition: 🖌️Artists’ Signatures ✍️
In this special edition, we investigate what artists' signatures actually mean, and the fascinating results reveal the multifaceted history of this curious phenomenon.
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This week, gifted DeSantis a "fascist" snowflake, NASA's Webb telescope captures a supernova, corporatizing London's creativity, and much more.
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This week, a Black Southern quilt collection is donated to a Mississippi museum, the fascinating AI-generated ceramic glazes, a map of Italian Fascist monuments, and can clothing ever truly be recycled?
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We Asked AI to Review Refik Anadol's "Unsupervised" at MoMA
What does the internet's most popular Artificial Intelligence chatbot have to say about Anadol’s AI-based artwork?
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This week, more inclusive crayons, categorizing female muses as artists, Tiktok-fueled "secret menus," Bernie walks into a TikTok, and much more.
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This week, a new portrait of André Breton, the problem with painted shadows, the story of a misidentified 19th-century potter, and more.
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This week, feline cinematography, two writers on Salman Rushdie, your guide to Valentine’s Day cards, and what happened to the documentary industry?