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Transform the World Around You Into Famous Artworks With This App
In a new collaboration with the Getty, the Google Arts & Culture app lets you remake any photo as a work by van Gogh, Cézanne, Kahlo, Kusama, and other renowned artists.
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Frieze Online Brings New Price Transparency and AR Tools To Take the Art “Home”
Frieze is offering free browsing for the first time and an app that allows you to imagine artworks inside your home. The director of Frieze New York, Loring Randolph, elaborates on these features and more in an interview with Hyperallergic.
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Visual AIDS Launches New Online Platform, "Not Over"
With its annual fundraiser canceled, the nonprofit encourages donations on a free online platform featuring rare videos and performances by multi-generational artists including the late Jack Smith.
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Over 40% of American Museum of Natural History Staff Impacted by Layoffs and Furloughs
About 200 full time staffers have been cut via layoffs and voluntary retirements, and another 250 were furloughed.
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Preserving Crucial Moments of Mexican American Religious History
UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center will conserve over 14,000 photographs and 125 audio recordings that make up the community’s spiritual patrimony.
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A Miniature Gallery Mounts Tiny Artworks, With Big Results
Shelter In Place is a Boston gallery born out of the coronavirus pandemic. Artist Eben Haines built the maquette and artists submit works to scale, which are photographed with surprisingly realistic results.
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In Midst of Growing Protests, National Portrait Gallery Says BP Will No Longer Judge Annual Award
The fossil fuel giant, which has sponsored the BP Portrait Award for 30 years, will no longer have a say in the judging process.
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Live Blogging Discussions on Nomadic Arts Organizing and How to Address Trauma
Check out Hyperallergic’s live report of day six of the Common Field Convening.
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As #CancelRent Movement Grows in NYC, Two Artists Start Their Own Strike
When their Brooklyn building failed to offer tenants protections, artists Alina Tenser and Gabo Camnitzer took matters into their own hands.
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“Missing Sounds of New York” Brings the City to Your Headphones
The New York Public Library has released a playlist of sounds that take us back to pre-pandemic days in the city that never sleeps.
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Scholars Will Boycott Universities That Do Not Protect Non-Tenured Faculty
Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Zadie Smith are among the signatories of a recent Academic Solidarity Statement calling for equal protections across faculty ranks.
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#FreeOurMamas: Art Sale Benefits Bail Funds for Black Mothers
Formerly incarcerated women and artists across the US are collaborating on prints and other works to help free jailed moms and caregivers by Mother’s Day.