Art
The Art World Emojis We Need
In honor of World Emoji Day, we’ve dreamed up a shortlist of emoji that the art world is missing, from tote bags to a Duchampian urinal.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Podcast
Should Blue Chip Art Galleries Have Received Millions of Dollars of PPP Loans?
Hyperallergic’s news team discusses the recent release of the names of businesses and organizations that received over $150,000 in PPP loans.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a Breonna Taylor mural you can see from space, cancel culture, California's last Confederate monument, moral clarity and journalism, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Kanye designs a new shoe, the warrior librarians of World War II, San Francisco's hidden monument to white supremacy, translating garbage, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, museums and white supremacy, feminist art and the image of Aunt Jemima, reviewing a book about art and prisons, talking about reparations for Black Americans, a racist sculptor skit, and more.
Interview
How Do We Photograph Freedom? A Conversation with Leigh Raiford
The relationship between Black liberation and photography reveals many things about our notions of freedom and the limitations of image making as a form of common truth.
Art
Sunday Edition, Juneteenth: ✊🏿From Images of Liberation to Remembrances🍷
A collection of the complicated and powerful stories that orbit Juneteenth.
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Required Reading
This week, John Bolton's late revelations; the difference between photography in books, exhibitions, and on screens; corporate profiteering off racism; architecture's coronavirus moment; and more.
Podcast
Christopher Knight: The Critic Whose Love for LA Uplifted Its Arts Community
The veteran art critic has played a formidable role in helping to shape the world’s perception of contemporary art in Los Angeles.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Black Lives Matter is changing the world and here are some links that address many of the issues people are talking about.
Podcast
The Monumental Impact of Black Lives Matter Protests
Hyperallergic’s news team discusses the toppling of racist statues and considers how the quest for justice continues during protests worldwide.
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Required Reading
This week, Soraya Nadia McDonald on the neck as a point of subjugation and control, Nicole J. Caruth on Black birth, Saidiya Hartman on the end of White Supremacy, John Edwin Mason on protest images, Hari Kunzu on Masha Gessen's new book, and more.