In Brief
Steve Mnuchin’s Photos with Dollar Bills Are Everything That’s Wrong with the World
The Treasury Secretary and his wife walked into the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in DC, which may sound like a joke. Actually, it is.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
In Brief
Newly Unearthed Miniature Carving Changes Our Understanding of Bronze Age Art
A newly discovered warrior tomb suggests Bronze Age Aegean culture was more interested in naturalism and the human form than previously believed.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a $100,000 toilet, Kushners unwelcome at the Met, a walker's guide of NYC, self-publishing photo books, Jean Nouvel's embarrassing statement, and more.
Podcast
Ford Foundation President Darren Walker on the Power of Art, Inequality, and Detroit
Under the leadership of Darren Walker, the Ford Foundation is challenging traditional ideas of what a major foundations should and can fund.
Art
Required Reading
This week, MVRDV's stunning Tianjin Binhai Library, cybercrime in galleries, a history of protest posters, the nationalist critics of the Taj Mahal, and much more.
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News
Over 1,800 Artists and Art Workers Sign Letter Against Sexual Harassment [UPDATE 2]
The public letter criticizes "an art world that upholds inherited power structures at the cost of ethical behavior."
Art
Required Reading
This week, an underground restaurant, political lives of medieval manuscripts, the need to claim (physical) QTBIPoC spaces, Harold Pinter's catty side, and more.
Interview
Curator Nato Thompson on Politics and the State of Social Practice Art
The moderator of an upcoming conversation on art and dissent at the Hirshhorn Museum, Thompson talks about the changing art world.
Art
Required Reading
This week, people who match art, landscape architects and mass shootings, Henry David Thoreau's two-million-word journal, tabloid art history, and more.
News
Artist Omer Fast Compares Protesters to Alt-Right, Chinatown Art Brigade Responds
The artist released a statement after Sunday's protests, and the protesters have responded.
Art
An Artist’s Powerful Letter on Post-Hurricane Puerto Rico
Yasmín Hernández lives in Puerto Rico, and instead of attending a panel discussion at El Museo del Barrio in New York last week she sent this letter outlining the realities of post-hurricane life for an artist.
News
Chinatown Art Brigade Protests Omer Fast's "Racist" Exhibition at James Cohan Gallery
Dozens of people interrupted James Cohan Gallery's Sunday hours to demand that the gallery and artist take down what the protesters see as "racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown."