Art
Deconstructing Race in Western Painting
The most interesting part of this excellent exhibition is its presentation of black modernists, for here we enter relatively unfamiliar territory.
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Revisiting the Provocative AIDS Art of Robert Blanchon
The artist's aim was to “elevate the physiological aspects of HIV to a level of reality that represents the pain, loss, and massive suffering caused by this plague.”
Art
Techno-Gothic Sculptures of Violence
In his latest exhibition, Belfast-born sculptor Tim Shaw explores the troubles of Northern Ireland, global terrorism, abuses of power, and artificial intelligence.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Germany, New York, North Carolina, and Sri Lanka.
News
Decolonize This Place Demands Repatriation of "Imperial Plunder" at the Brooklyn Museum
Parallel to today's protest at the RISD Museum, organizers from Decolonize This Place gathered at the Brooklyn Museum to decry stolen objects in the Brooklyn Museum's collection.
Art
The Baroque Splendor of Christianity Meets East Village Bohemia
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's glittery assemblages point toward both his working-class Catholic upbringing in New Jersey and New York tenement life.
Art
Artist Installs Bells Throughout Oakland that Detect Air Pollution
Rosten Woo hopes the bells will help create political pressure about air quality in West Oakland, which is circled by freeways and diesel trucks.
News
Protesters Request RISD Museum Return Bronze Sculpture to Nigeria
Students and faculty from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University held an action today to request a sculpture looted from the Kingdom of Benin be returned. The museum says they have begun conversations with the Nigerian government to return the bronze.
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Whitney Museum Staffers Demand Answers After Vice Chair’s Relationship to Tear Gas Manufacturer Is Revealed
Three days after Hyperallergic published an article detailing the Whitney Museum's connection to the ongoing migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border, more than 100 staffers at the Manhattan-based museum have signed a letter demanding that their employers respond to the article's allegations.
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Senegal and Ivory Coast Will Request Large-Scale Return of Artifacts from France
"We are ready to find solutions with France," Senegal's culture minister recently said at a conference in Dakar. "But if 10,000 pieces are identified in the collections, we are asking for all 10,000."
Opinion
A Response to “How Saudi Arabia and US Arts Institutions Partnered on a Cultural Diplomacy Offensive”
I am writing to contest Rijin Sahakian’s characterization of the artist-led organizations I helped to build from the ground up.
Art
Stark Photos of a Louisiana Prison that Was Once a Slave Plantation
Two photographers document the lives of incarcerated men at Angola, a former slave plantation that is now the largest maximum-security prison farm in the US.