Art
Required Reading
This week, dating a museum, trusting Silicon Valley with our common history, a new book on photographer Garry Winogrand, how slaves are depicted in Ancient art, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
Protesters Occupy Brooklyn Museum Atrium, Demanding Decolonization Commission
Over 60 protesters from 20 community groups rallied at the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden demanding the beloved institutions play a role in safeguarding their local communities.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Hubble Space Telescope turns 28, IKEA might develop a hotel, democracy vs. the algorithm, is Instagram over, Etel Adnan's color, angry geek culture, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Yayoi Kusama goes floral, the battle over US identity, considering David Goldblatt in Paris, Humanities problems, reviewing the Pioneers of African-American Cinema, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Soul of a Nation in Arkansas, "female monsters" in art, new "golden age" of black painting, trends at Milan Design Week, Zaha Hadid's only built house is complete, and more.
News
Growing Coalition Calls Brooklyn Museum "Out of Touch" and Demands Decolonization Commission
Nineteen organizations have signed a letter calling on the Brooklyn Museum to form a "decolonization commission" after another letter to the institution last week went largely ignored.
Art
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This week, reviewing Civilizations, conserving Edgar Degas's tutus, tech's "disruption" of photography, Facebook's long history of apologies, architects and designers championing afrofutrism, and more.
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News
Coalition of Anti-Gentrification Groups Pressures Brooklyn Museum to “Decolonize” [UPDATED]
Anti-gentrification activists are calling on the museum to create a "Decolonization Commission" after a controversial curatorial hire.
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Art in the Age of the Internet, Colonial Californiano architecture, the boy in Diane Arbus’s "Child With A Toy Hand Grenade" photograph, the winners of Smithsonian's photo contest, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, horizontal skyscrapers, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica meltdown, living in a masterpiece, death tribute cartoons, the politics of Google Maps, and more.
News
Banksy's 14th Street Rat Already Taken Down by Building Owners
In less than a week, the Banksy rat at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue has been taken down and rumors suggest it will be sold.
Books
Sprechen Sie Kunst? How to Speak German in the Art World
If you need to talk to a hotshot Berlin gallerist or send an invitation to curator Okuwei Enzewor, then we have found the book for you.