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Can Visual Artists Get People to Vote?
Artists including Carrie Mae Weems and Shepard Fairey are joining large-scale campaigns to encourage voter turnout this election season.
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National Park Service Allots $3M to Repatriate Native Heritage
The funds were distributed to 13 Native American tribes and 21 institutions to facilitate the return of human remains and artifacts.
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The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: September 2024
Kick off fall with a New York-heavy puzzle, featuring the frenzied art fair season, public art by Cannupa Hanska Luger, local zine libraries, beloved local sculpture parks, and much more.
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Celebrating Labor History Through the Art of Union Banners
Displayed at marches and strikes, these creative emblems of collective struggle convey specific values centered around fair wages, protest, and rights across industries.
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Donald Rodney Drew Upon His Sickness to Illuminate Society’s Ills
An exhibition brings together all of the artist’s surviving work, demonstrating the many ways he incorporated aspects of his illness into his practice.
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The Ancient Art of the Labor Strike
Though the term “strike” was coined in 1768, the history of work stoppages is much older and artists have been involved from the start.
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Half a Century of Black Art in Detroit
An exhibition revisits the ongoing legacy of Gallery 7, a space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s.
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Wall-to-Wall Walz at the Minnesota State Fair Seed Art Show
Local artists get political in painstakingly crafted mosaics at the only state fair crop art display in the United States.
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Required Reading
This week: diving into the Black Atlantic, Percival Everett’s James, “demure” by and for trans people, debunking the “marshmallow test,” and much more.
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What to Do When Your National Flag Doesn’t Represent You?
Though she belongs to a movement of young artists exploring recent upheavals in Sri Lanka, Hema Shironi’s works also draw upon her experience as a mixed-identity artist.
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A View From the Easel
“I consider the studio to be a co-creator of my work, and the container for my actions.”
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An Art Exhibition That Makes Rejection Look Good
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is preparing to proudly display works that didn’t make it into a popular open-call show at the Brooklyn Museum.