The new Hollywood period piece Mank revives an old controversy over the acclaimed film.
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New Auction Platform Will Contribute to HBCU Art History Scholarships
Greenhouse Auctions, launching its inaugural sale on December 2, will help fund scholarships for students at over 50 historically Black colleges and universities.
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Message from the Library with Molly Crabapple
Join award-winning artist, writer, and author Molly Crabapple as she presents Brooklyn Public Library’s next Message from the Library
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Watching Whiteness Shift to Blue Via Nationalist Aesthetics
Since the 1950s policing has presented itself as a “thin blue line” against disorder — a dog-whistle connecting the Civil Rights Movement to the mobility of Black people and white fears about the loss of a permanent, racialized social hierarchy.
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30 Years of the Guerrilla Girls’ Art and Advocacy
As the old saying goes, “If you can’t beat ’em, put on a Halloween mask and publicly indict their terrible record of human rights infractions.”
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The Bioweapons of Culture War
The hope now is not for this to end well, but simply for it to end.
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The Crude, Exhilarating, Watery Worlds of Alfred Wallis
Wallis tore up the rule book and pointed a way forward for British painting.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Photostats Document Subjugation and Violence
The artist stretched constructs of authority and authorship to impel the viewer’s awareness and participation.
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When Class Conflict Met Queer Romance
Ammonite tells a 19th-century love story that prompts less a tingle through the loins than a chill down the spine.
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Pop Noise Overkill
Big and loud music from Backxwash, Food House, Toriena, and Blackpink.
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Required Reading
This week, the racialization of painters’ palettes, destruction concerns in Artsakh, why fascists like Dune, how Facebook didn’t ban Holocaust deniers, elite panic, and more.
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John Yau, Jillian Steinhauer, and Others at Hyperallergic’s First-ever Public Reading
This classic recording brings to life some of our favorite articles from 2015, and showcases the poetry of a few longtime Hyperallergic editors.