This week, looking back at New York City’s first community garden, honoring Harry Belafonte’s life in photos, medication abortions across history, and how did a LACMA statue end up on Craigslist?

Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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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.
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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?
15 Art Shows to See in New York This Month
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art exhibitions this April, including Shellyne Rodriguez, Susan Bee, Mandy Al-Sayegh, Corydon Cowansage, and more.
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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?
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.
MoMA to Co-Curate Exhibition With NYPD
Arrest Me, Daddy hopes to cast a more positive light on the work of law enforcement officers.
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?
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.