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?
Hrag Vartanian
Art
Required Reading
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.
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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.
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Required Reading
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
Required Reading
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.
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Required Reading
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.
Podcast
Is the Art World Ready for the Sanctuary Movement?
As New York cultural leaders listen to the concerns of immigrant communities, we talk about the challenges of immigrant advocacy in the art world, and then Zachary Small interviews Emma Sulkowicz about the #MeToo movement.
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Required Reading
This week, democratizing portraiture, Chinese art heists, Burning Man, Silent Sam, hoarding, and more.
Podcast
Who Was Artist David Wojnarowicz? We Find Out
After two actions led by ACT UP activists encouraged the Whitney Museum to change a wall label, we went looking for people who could tell us who Wojnarowicz was and help us decipher his complex life and art.
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Required Reading
This week, the world's most beautiful libraries, what art can do that journalism can't, the future of surveillance, leaving Instagram, and more.