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.
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, debunking Christmas myths, Brian Eno on NFTs, artists we lost in 2021, garbage internet trends, and more.
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Required Reading
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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Required Reading
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.
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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.