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This week, a Frank Stella is installed as a public artwork in NYC, the women behind some iconic buildings, looting Cambodia, fighting anti-boycott laws, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards Are Bizarre
Nothing like saying Happy Thanksgiving with a postcard of a turkey with a knife and fork sticking out of it.
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Announcing the Recipients of the 2021 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators
Tahnee Ahtone, La Tanya S. Autry, Dan Cameron, Jeremy Dennis, and Frederica Simmons are the recipients of this year's fellowships.
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This week, the only LGBTQ+ historic district in the US, three Asian-American Modernists, Ai Weiwei on reclaiming art from capitalism, Thanksgiving and genocide, and more.
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This week, Evangelical ballet murder, reimagining NYC streets, Edward Snowden on Ai Weiwei's new memoir, racism of urban design, and much more.
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Addie Wagenknecht’s Fraying of America
In her solo exhibition, the artist creates an installation that is many things but unified is not one of them.
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This week, Bored Yacht Club's NFT millions, fry bread, new space race capitalism, the legacy of Nazi art, and more.
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This week, how Hollywood tried to suppress a film post-9/11, Walt Whitman's words for today, Dune director breaks down a pivotal scene, DW documents the environmental scourge of fast fashion, and much more.
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The Continuing Fight to #FreeRenty
“For years, Papa Renty’s slave owners profited from his suffering,” Lanier said in a statement at the time. “It’s time for Harvard to stop doing the same thing to our family.”
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Danielle Dean Wades Through Two Hollow Utopias
Every utopia is a social experiment, the artist suggests in this commission for the Performa performance art biennial, and we're ultimately the guinea pigs.
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This week, the National Gallery of Art finally acquired a major work by Faith Ringgold, the director of The Velvet Underground talks film, North America's Hindu Nationalist problem, canceling legacy admissions, and more.
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This week, addressing a transphobic comedy special on Netflix, the story behind KKK hoods, cultural identity fraud, an anti-Semitic take on modern art, and more.