Art
Required Reading
This week, unzipped architecture in Milano, photographer Lana H. Haroun speaks, white supremacy and Viking history, the Classics and Biblical Studies divide, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
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This week, a floating village in New York, the Black Space Manifesto, Greg Tate's criticism, Anish Kapoor's terrible Brexit art, and more.
Satire
A Startling Choice, Lisa Frank Is Selected for the US Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale
“She is the artist we need right now.”
Satire
Archaeologists Discover World's Oldest Break-Up Letter at Neo-Babylonian Site
A tablet discovered this year, suggests that Neo-Babylonians may have been the first to start writing break up letters.
News
An Artist Works to Break Down the Walls Between a College and Its Community
What does it mean for an artist to be invited into an institution of higher learning to engage in conversations about safety, community, and change?
Art
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This week, choosing ethics over aesthetics, Barnett Newman paintings in Amsterdam, shocking immigrant detention photos, Presidential logos, and more.
Art
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This week, a newly authenticated van Gogh, critics hate Thomas Heatherwick's "Vessel," US soft power and the literary avant-garde, National Museum of the American Indian's magazine is available for free online, and more.
Podcast
A Museum Hires a Full-time Therapist
Is a museum visit just what the doctor ordered? In Montreal, medical professionals can prescribe you a museum visit. There's also a full-time art therapist on staff.
Art
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This week, the world's tallest indoor waterfall, reality check at Hudson Yards, roots of white nationalism, a rare 15th-century Irish translation of an 11th-century Persian medical encyclopedia, and more.
Art
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This week, museums have to change, academic publishers under siege, ignoring tear gas at the Warhol show, Meghan McCain and Eli Valley, and more.
Podcast
Discussing Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
In a region often overlooked on the maps of modern art lovers, one man has made it his mission to inform the world.
Art
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This week, blackness, distrust in media, the original instructions to Tetris, face tattoos, and contemporary women artists in Georgia and more.