Art
Required Reading
This week, a cartoonish Vegas wedding chapel, the ancient DNA trap, the first photo book, explaining “cultural mulatto,” and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
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This week, Hollywood's caravan problem, death of consensus, cooking ancient Hittite food, seniors and fake news, the High Line's problem, and more.
Podcast
The Political Life of Memes with An Xiao Mina
Memes are increasingly part of protest movements, but how do we understand their role and purpose? A new book helps us figure it out.
Art
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This week, the first-ever photographs of the dark side of the moon taken from the surface of the natural satellite, athletes and their tattoos are becoming a problem for video games, eating in the Stone Age, Trump as an evangelical Cyrus the Great, and more.
In Brief
Happy Public Domain Day! Marcel Duchamp's “Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors…” Is Now Copyright-Free
This year, public domain advocates in the United States have a lot to celebrate.
In Brief
Happy Public Domain Day! Marcel Duchamp's “Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors…” Is Now Copyright-Free
This year, public domain advocates in the United States have a lot to celebrate.
Art
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This week, Eau de Nil, the fake internet, a right-winger’s freakout over a new museum director, reviewing new books about Islam, Scottish coorie, and more.
News
Decolonize This Place Announces January 26 Town Hall Regarding Whitney Museum’s Tear Gas Problem
The group’s recent letter calls for continued action, adding “Inaction with respect to the art-washing industrial complex of contemporary art makes our field complicit with death, disaster, and destruction.”
Art
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This week, Pantone picks the color of the year, the origin of abstract art, Albrecht Dürer's ads, crowdfunding Kusama in Toronto, and more.
Podcast
Lowery Stokes Sims and Chloë Bass Talk Empathy, Art, and Education
What does it mean to have empathy? How do we navigate difference? Can contemporary art contribute to our understanding of all this?
Art
Required Reading
This week, the UK's poetry pavilion, Georgia O'Keeffe’s sister Ida, grad school mental health, underground queer Persian dinners in LA, and more.
News
Whitney Museum Staffers Demand Answers After Vice Chair’s Relationship to Tear Gas Manufacturer Is Revealed
Three days after Hyperallergic published an article detailing the Whitney Museum's connection to the ongoing migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border, more than 100 staffers at the Manhattan-based museum have signed a letter demanding that their employers respond to the article's allegations.