The first thing his gallery colleagues asked when he emerged from the elevator: Was the art okay?
Zachary Small
Zachary Small was a writer at Hyperallergic.
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The International Spy Museum Seen Through the Eyes of a Human Rights Expert
“This feels like a loss,” said Andrea Prasow of Human Rights Watch while touring the museum, flagging several errors in how curators have presented the history of torture and interrogation.
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The Art Handler Who Built a Community of Pride Around His Work
Being an art handler means belonging to a patchwork quilt of professional networks, but translating goodwill into solidarity requires significant effort. One day, you might have to entrust a colleague with your life.
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The Art Handler Whose Shoulder Shattered at the Loading Dock
The art world conditions its workers to accept subpar safety standards and low salaries in the name of high culture. And because art handlers frequently hop from institution to institution for jobs, issues are typically handed off to the next wave of workers.
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The Museum Wall That Broke the Art Handler’s Back
Over the summer, Hyperallergic interviewed dozens of art handlers about the variable conditions of their workplaces. This week, we are bringing their stories of accident and injury into the light.
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Trump Tweets Out Promotional Campaign Logo Using White Supremacist Symbol
The video has received more than 2.4 million views. Its creator says that the logo was found by searching for Trump/MAGA on Google.
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A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room
The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.
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Those Photos of the Amazon Burning? Not All of Them Are Real.
A number of viral photographs claiming to depict the fire devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have been misattributed.
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TIME Magazine’s “Greatest Places” List Has Some Questionable Culture Picks
The Shed at Hudson Yards and Damien Hirst’s $100,000-per-night Empathy Suite at the Palms Casino Resort made the cut.
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Landmarked Pepsi-Cola Sign in Queens Temporarily Hosts JetBlue Ad
What do we call an advertisement that becomes and advertisement for another advertisement? Postmodernism?
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Historians Raise Concerns Over Central Park’s Suffragist Monument
“If Sojourner Truth is added,” the letter reads, “it could obscure the substantial differences between white and black suffrage activists, and would be misleading.”
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In Anti-Rape Demonstration, “Glitter” Protesters Vandalize Historic Mexican Monument
Residents in anguish over gender-based violence in Mexico City graffitied one of the capital’s most historic landmarks in an act of frustration against government officials.
