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.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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
Required Reading
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
Required Reading
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.
Podcast
Didier William on Painting a Revolution
In his large two-part exhibition, the queer Haitian-American artist centers the body, which figures in his work both literally and figuratively.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the library of King Ashurbanipal, the new Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, geographies of fear in antiquity, China's Uighurs, alt-right New York, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, New York Times's Facebook bombshell, a critic’s nightmare, Black Athena revisted, a fake band gets found out, a banned commercial from Iceland, and more.
Podcast
Antwaun Sargent on Black Contemporary Art
From social media to mainstream publications, Sir Sargent (as he is known online) is dedicating himself to ensuring that Black voices in the art world are heard.