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Chicago’s Field Museum Covers Up Native Display
New regulations require museums to obtain informed consent from tribal or lineal descendants before exhibiting Native artifacts or human remains.
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Shepard Fairey’s Subversive Civic Discourse
Facing the Giant serves as a powerful demonstration of Shepard Fairey’s creative evolution and his significance as a cultural instigator.
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When Feminism Ruled CalArts
The Feminist Art Program at CalArts produced some of the most well-known second-wave feminist artists and a diverse third-wave movement.
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Can We Free Ourselves From Algorithms?
In Filterworld, Kyle Chayka proposes that the algorithmically driven, primarily digital nature of how we consume culture has rendered culture homogenous.
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Art Dealer Brent Sikkema Found Dead in Brazil
According to news reports, his body was found with stab wounds in his residence in Rio de Janeiro.
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Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: January 2024
A hint for the first mini art crossword of the new year: 2- and 3-Down are both too damn high.
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Monica Sjöö’s Radical Feminist Goddesses
Her paintings were attempts to channel the Great Mother Goddess, manifested through composite landscapes made up of sacred sites and symbols.
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Can We Create an Intersectional AI?
The perils associated with AI are intricately entwined with racial capitalism, labor exploitation, the automation debate, and data theft.
Books
How Blue Paper Revolutionized the Art of Drawing
Drawing on Blue provides a glimpse into the genesis of the tinted paper as a new vehicle for expression in European art.
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NYC Is Seeking Artists to Transform Unsightly Scaffolding
The City Canvas program will commission designs for temporary protective structures, at the expense of property owners.
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Thought Lost for 36 Years, Chicano Mural Resurfaces in Estate Sale
The discovery of panels from a mural by ASCO founding member Willie Herrón has added another chapter of intrigue to the art collective’s evolving legacy.
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Two Views of a Family Breakfast
Twenty years after creating his pastel “Lavergne Family Breakfast,” Jean-Etienne Liotard recreated it in oil, and it is astonishing to see how close the two versions are.