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.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Podcast
Traveling Through the Uyghur Homeland with Artist Lisa Ross
For 17 years, artist Lisa Ross has been documenting the lands of Western China that are home to Uyghurs, a population that is threatened today by the Chinese authorities.
News
Cohen Testimony Reveals Trump Staged High Bidder for His Portrait at Art Hamptons Auction
He told Congress, "The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon."
Art
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This week, the first Metropolitan Museum, Frank Stella's lost Black painting, Eli Valley's amazing comics, “the most LA thing ever,” racist yearbooks, and more.
In Brief
Visitors to the Grand Canyon Museum May Have Been Exposed to Dangerous Radiation
For 18 years, three buckets of uranium ore sat in a museum storage area close to the galleries.
Art
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This week, surrealist photography, the new anti-semitism, fighting the corporatization of Burning Man, the monotony of contemporary architecture, Lagos's art scene, and more.
Podcast
Hyperallergic Editors Reflect on Warhol’s Superbowl Commercial, MoMA Expansion, and More
This week was a snowy one in Brooklyn, so Hyperallergic editors decided to gather and chat about some of the stories we've been reporting on.
Interview
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on His Toni Morrison Doc and What Bette Davis Taught Him About Photography
The first full-length documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning author offers a rich take by one of the only people she trusts to take her photograph.
Art
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This week, world's first poet, reviewing Antinous: Boy Made God, Queens modernism, Octavia E. Butler on Pasadena, mile-high architecture, and more.
Opinion
Museum of the Bible Has Jumped the Ark
Do we really have to explain to the CEO of the Museum of the Bible that archaeologists didn’t find the rock that killed Goliath?
Art
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This week, a mirrored house in the Swiss Alps, California’s obsession with health, the Trump wall’s debt to Minimalism, Berlin’s Arab intellectual community, rain drama in LA, and more.
Art
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This week, a paradise of glass, Edward Burne-Jones, thinking critically about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ketchup caviar, and more.