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Klimt Gets Splashed With “Oil” in Latest Climate Protest
The artist’s “Death and Life” painting got splashed with an oily black liquid at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Rhea Nayyar
Rhea Nayyar (she/her) is a New York City-based staff reporter at Hyperallergic. She received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has a passion for small-scale artworks, elevating minority perspectives, and dogspotting at art world events.
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Finally, a Dinosaur That Can Fit in Your Home
Sotheby’s will be auctioning an almost complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skull that it boasts is just the right size for collectors.
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Local Politician Tattooed Teen’s “I Voted” Sticker on Her Arm
The deputy mayor of New Paltz, New York, tweeted that she would get a 14-year-old’s design tattooed if it won Ulster County’s "I Voted" sticker contest. She actually did it
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The Sikh International Film Festival Returns to NYC
A total of 17 films centered around Sikh history, diaspora, and innovation will be showcased at Manhattan’s Rubin Museum.
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Some People Still Want an Arts Degree, Apparently
University of California's Berkeley Campus has reported a sharp increase in students enrolling in arts and humanities majors in the last decade.
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A Brief History of the "I Voted" Sticker
Who designed the first sticker? And does anyone care about it anymore?
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Art in the Workplace Improves Employee Well-Being, Study Finds
More than 40% of those surveyed agreed that their workplace was “designed poorly.”
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Disgraced Art Dealer Subhash Kapoor Hit With 10-Year Prison Sentence
Kapoor led a smuggling ring charged with trafficking over 2,600 individual objects worth over $143 million.
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Iranian Artists Plead for International Support
Activists are organizing a “call-in day” to remind politicians of the ongoing crisis with a protest-performance planned in New York this weekend.
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Serial Killer’s Sinister Clown Painting Fetches Over $12K at Auction
What made an auction house in Philadelphia decide to sell the art of death-row murderer John Wayne Gacy?
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Brazilian Artists Celebrate Lula's Comeback as President
“The last four years have been of orchestrated cultural destruction at the hands of the extreme right,” artist Laercio Cubas Jr. told Hyperallergic.
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Canadian City Clashes With Artist Over a Park's Racist History
The city of Calgary commissioned artist Annie Wong to create a site-specific work addressing the problematic history of James Short Park. So why was it taken down after four days?