To understand contemporary art, it is necessary to investigate the connections that are sometimes omitted or undervalued in art history.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. You can follow him at @hragv.
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This week, Patrisse Cullors speaks, reviewing John Richardson’s final Picasso book, the Met Museum snags a rare oil on copper by Nicolas Poussin, and much more.
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This week, another Benin bronze is returned to Nigeria, looking at the Black Arts Movement in the US South, Senegal’s vibrant new architecture, why films are more gray, and much more.
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This week, a massive digital version of Rembrandt’s “Night Watch,” academics on Twitter, transgender and nonbinary methods of art history, the immorality of diet culture, and more.
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This week, debunking Christmas myths, Brian Eno on NFTs, artists we lost in 2021, garbage internet trends, and more.
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This week, the persistence of the non-modern, breaking up with the arts, photography and ethics, opera surprise, and more.
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Toppling Columbus with a Rainbow Cookie
Nothing is more boring than reducing Italian American identity into stereotypes, but artist John Avelluto avoids that with his wide-ranging aesthetic appetite.
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This week, I’ve included a lot of humor because with the recent news on the coronavirus variant, we can all use it.
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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.
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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.