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Artist Alonzo Davis, Champion of Black American Art, Dies at 82
He co-founded one of the first Black-owned contemporary art galleries in the US, exhibiting the work of David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, and many others.
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Artists and Galleries Decry Sale of Iconic Chelsea Building
Hundreds of tenants could be displaced from the West 26th Street arts complex established by Gloria Naftali, now on the market for $170M.
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Montgomery Mayor Calls for Removal of “Politicized” Billboard Artwork
The work, designed by the art collective For Freedoms, depicts a photograph from Selma’s Bloody Sunday in 1965 overlaid with Trump’s campaign slogan.
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Museums Scramble to Grasp Impact of Trump's DEI Mandate
Widespread uncertainty pervades as institutions either roll back initiatives or try to determine whether their programs are in compliance.
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Excavating Craft Histories Through Archives
The 2024 Craft Archive Fellows will present their research on underrepresented craft histories in an online event hosted by the Center for Craft and moderated by Hyperallergic associate editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin.
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10 Shows to See in Upstate New York This February
The exhibition-as-memoir of Linda Griggs, a group show as history lesson, Odili Donald Odita’s vibrant abstractions, and more.
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The Story of Enslaved and Free Texas Potters, Told Sherd-by-Sherd
There is more to the history of H. Wilson and Co. Pottery and related sites than folklore holds.
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Prem Sahib Captures the Unruly Aesthetics of Desire
Sahib brings his minimalist aesthetic to the maximalism of fetish bars and nightclubs, dark spaces in which unruly bodies and complex social codes coalesce.
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Imagining the Mona Lisa’s New Room
A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic rooms of art history.
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New NYC Subway Murals Challenge the Authority of Maps
At 68th Street–Hunter College station, a new trio of mosaics by professor Lisa Corinne Davis is a dizzying exploration of the art of cartography.
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Required Reading
This week: Celia Paul’s transportive brush, yoga-washing, the mythology of American orphanhood, one grandma’s Lunar New Year photoshoot, the science of laughter, and more.
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Three Suspects Arrested in Connection With Dutch Museum Heist
Thieves used explosives to break into the Drents Museum and stole four ancient gold artifacts on display.