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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Portugal, Brooklyn, California, and Virginia.
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Middle School Teacher Accused of Selling Students’ Art Online
Mario Perron faces a potential lawsuit from parents who say he printed their kids’ drawings on coffee mugs and tote bags.
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Artepaño Dispatches From the US Carceral System
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Álvaro Ibarra imagines correspondences by Chicano artists who endured incarceration in America.
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British Museum Hosts Runway Show With Parthenon Marbles as “Backdrop”
Greece Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the institution’s decision to allow Erdem’s show demonstrated “zero respect” for the sculptures.
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Untitled Art Fair Acquired by Florida Luxury Brand
The move paves the way for contemporary artists to sell their inflatable mixed-media sculptures to yachters around the world.
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A Shameful US History Told Through Ledger Drawings
In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride.
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Seeing Photography as an African Art Form
Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events.
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How Queer and Trans Artists Reshape Divinity in Their Own Image
For contemporary artists like Río Edén, Mx. Zeloszelos Marchandt, and Elliot Barnhill, making religious art is a revolutionary act
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Japanese-American Artists Revisit the Painful Legacy of WWII
How does someone who has not experienced war, or the extreme racism that drove the Japanese incarceration campaign in the US, access these painful memories?
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Warhol Museum Wall Text About “Middle East Conflict” Draws Criticism
Workers who spoke to Hyperallergic questioned why the text, which cited "the loss of Jewish lives," made no mention of Palestinians.
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Portland Museum of Art Lays Off 13 Workers
The Maine institution cited pandemic-related finance troubles, but is moving ahead with a $100M expansion.
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Prince William and Ayo Edebiri Photo Becomes Meme About Royal Discomfort
Sometimes, taking a moment out of context reveals a deeper truth.