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How Is Art Selected for New York City’s Airports?
Developers are investing in art for multi-billion-dollar terminal enhancement projects, but the process around commissioning these works is mostly opaque.
Isa Farfan
Isa Farfan is a staff reporter for Hyperallergic. She lives in Brooklyn. Email her at isa@hyperallergic.com.
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Smithsonian’s New Trump Impeachment Label Is Shorter and Safer
The institution installed an updated label to a display about presidential impeachments after backlash over the text’s removal.
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Thai Art Center Censors Exhibition After “Pressure” From China
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Kasmin and Clearing Galleries Announce Closures
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A 115-foot-long stretch of carvings is now visible for the first time since it was spotted nine years ago.
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Modigliani's Jean Cocteau Portrait Heads to Brooklyn Museum in Major Gift
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Amy Sherald’s Trans Lady Liberty Painting Graces New Yorker Cover
The artist withdrew her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery over concerns that the artwork would be censored.
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Can Steve Martin Help Bring Visitors to the Frick Collection?
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Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment Reference
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No Other Land Contributor Killed by Israeli Settler
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Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation
The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, a new book argues.