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This week, the white gaze and photos from the US/Mexico border, the market for a branded artist, a weird micro-trend, Jonas Wood's straight white dude problem, Washington state's prison abolitionist movement, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Podcast
Kent Monkman’s Mission to Decenter the Colonial Museum
Leading contemporary artist Kent Monkman discusses how museums have influenced his life and his art, and what he is doing to help change them to tell a fuller picture of Canadian history.
Art
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This week, "Pavilion Le Corbusier" reopens in Zurich, more critics of color, genocide scholars rebuke the Holocaust Museum, a list of the concentration camps, and more.
News
Children's Drawings from US/Mexico Border Reveal a World of Cages
During a recent visit to US border facilities, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics was given three drawings by child immigrants.
Art
#UnwantedIvanka Pokes Fun at White House Nepotism
Ivanka Trump doesn't see an issue butting into conversations with world leaders. I'd say this was embarrassing but we're way beyond that at this point.
Art
#UnwantedIvanka Pokes Fun at White House Nepotism
Ivanka Trump doesn't see an issue butting into conversations with world leaders. I'd say this was embarrassing but we're way beyond that at this point.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a volcano from space, the "queer crime" that birthed the Beats, problems for "ethnic" cuisines in the US, how one Chinatown helped LA's punk scene, and more.
Art
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This week, E. Jean Carroll writes about the time Trump assaulted her, “gentlefictation” of graffiti, Latinx poetics post-Hurricane Maria, Facebook screws everyone, a history of US concentration camps, and more.b
Podcast
The Unapologetic Queerness of Artist Nayland Blake
This Pride Month, it’s important to remember the artists who invite their queerness into every aspect of their life, work, and art, like Nayland Blake.
Art
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This week, the fall out from When They See Us, selfies at Chernobyl, the Universal Music fire disaster, Trump doesn't read, the rot in US corporate media, and more.
Podcast
Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari
In her new performance lecture title "Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism," Allahyari explores what it means for data to be colonized.
Art
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This week, roadside America, Alexandra Stock hates Christoph Büchel’s Venice project, quitting Instagram, failed utopias, the AirPods disaster, and more.