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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Unveils a Series of Green New Deal Art Posters
The posters promote the congresswoman's environmental plan with WPA-style lithographs highlighting monuments from Queens and the Bronx in New York City.
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Decode This New Video Game's Story Using Surveillance Footage
The new game Telling Lies turns players into detectives, having them sort through surveillance footage to understand what to look for and find the truth.
Film
Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for the Tour of My First Film
| Cinema Guild and MEMORY have partnered to take My First Film, the hybrid film / performance / artist talk by Zia Anger, on tour across the US and Europe in fall 2019. Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of a new trailer for the film. Read the full story here [https://hyperallergic.com/499482/
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Grappling With the Final Stages of a Father's Life
Aneta Bartos seeks to capture the surreal space of memory, blurring real and imagined worlds in order to represent that which is beyond fact or fiction.
Film
The Dark Crystal Is a Marvelously Imaginative Puppet Series
The Netflix prequel series to the 1982 Jim Henson film faithfully embodies both the craft and spirit of the original.
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This Program Gives NYC Art Teachers Free Supplies for the New School Year
Materials for the Arts in Long Island City hosts its fifth annual Back to School Shopping Spree initiative, offering art teachers in public schools reusable items for their classes as an alternative to bearing the cost of art supplies.
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Week in Review: Nan Goldin Arrested at Protest, Artists Protest at Hudson Yards
Also, an artist is building a cemetery and a memorial in Tunisia for migrants who have died in the Mediterranean Sea, some of the photographs claiming to depict the Amazon rainforest fire are fake, and more.
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24 Impressionist Master Paintings Donated to the High Museum of Art
Plus, the University of Chicago Library now has the largest institutional collection of Vivian Maier photographs, and the Getty Research Institute has acquired the massive archive of Sidney B. Felsen.
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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.
Art
In Hong Kong, Protestors Are Using Zines to Get Their Messages Out
The speed with which the Hong Kong demonstrators' informative zines have been distributed, collected, and even exhibited internationally is remarkable. We spoke with ZineCoop, one of the groups behind the effort, to discuss why they are so powerful.
Art
The Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town
At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.
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The Museum Trustee Behind a $130 Million Lawsuit to Keep ICE Detainees in Prison
UMB Bank is suing a city in Rhode Island for refusing to house ICE detainees at an affiliated detention center. The bank’s CEO, Mariner Kemper, is also a trustee of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Missouri.