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This week, Nigeria's golden age, social justice and culture wars, are we too pessimistic for the World’s Fair, combatting manspreading, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
$1.3M Banksy Artwork “Self-Destructs” at Auction
A canvas that sold for over a million dollars was shredded by its frame but no one is sure if it was destroyed or simply transformed.
Podcast
YO, Deborah Kass!
Artist Deborah Kass’s “OY/YO” (2015) is a Brooklyn favorite, and now the eight-foot-tall public artwork is landing in front of the Brooklyn Museum. We ask her what the work is really about.
Art
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This week, a new biography of Carleton Watkins, Noam Chomsky on the State of the Empire, Mac Collins's afrofuturist chair, Brian Acton spilled the beans on Facebook, and more.
Interview
Images of Truth from Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony and What They Mean
The images emerging from the Christine Blasey Ford hearing tell us a lot, but what?
Art
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This week, Tulsa’s new $465 million park, an Assyrian relief goes to auction, the rise of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie declaration, and more.
Podcast
What Does a Black Radical Art Education Look Like?
The Black School talks to Hyperallergic about the role of radical Black education and the "Black art world," in a special interview that comes on the heels of their residency and exhibition at New York's New Museum.
Art
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This week, a new Scottish museum, white supremacy and white artists, an art critic records a year of his professional life, fake images of Islamic science, the battle over Classics, and more.
Podcast
What the Hell Are McMansions and Why Do They Exist?
McMansions are the houses many of us love to hate, and we invited Kate Wagner, aka McMansion Hell, to talk oversized buildings of wealth and status and what they all mean.
Art
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This week, an apartment block with movable walls, the magazine industry’s identity crisis, role of memory and monuments in Yerevan, Google's drive to kill the URL, the London banker who broke the world, and more.
Podcast
The Rebel Women of 19th-Century New York
A new exhibition explores the “Rebel Women” of 19th-century New York, and we talk to curator Marcela Micucci to discover the stories of these largely forgotten figures.
Art
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This week, Okwui Enwezor on leaving Germany, #MeToo in museums, the aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, British mosques, criticizing Avital Ronell, and more.