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Is This “Earlier Mona Lisa” the Real Deal?
Some scholars believe that the portrait is a Leonardo original painted by the Renaissance artist before he made the more famous work housed at the Louvre.
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Celebrated and Unsung Histories of French Abstraction
Is it not social practice to provide an experience in which a different kind of attention and, above all, a different kind of thinking is demanded?
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Alan Michelson’s Place-Keeping Art
For almost three decades, Alan Michelson has attended to place, histories, and futures, and the lived realities of Indigenous peoples in North America.
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See a Tiny New York City Built From Bark and Leaves
The New York Botanical Garden's annual Holiday Train Show features nearly 200 miniature landmarks, all made of natural materials.
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Unearthed Clay Seals Shed Light on Ancient Roman Archiving Practices
The finding of such a large number of document seals is a window into daily life in the Roman city of Doliche in modern-day Turkey.
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New Initiative Invites Museums to Borrow Work by Palestinian Artists
“Many people are asking their institutions to speak up and not be silent,” said Faisal Saleh of the Palestine Museum US.
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Remembering the Artists We Lost in 2023
Through the end of the year, Hyperallergic will feature readers’ tributes to artists in their communities.
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A Thrift Store Painting Sold for $191K, But the Buyer Never Paid
The couple who bought N.C. Wyeth's "Ramona" (1939) for just $4 said it’s “the biggest disappointment ever.”
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3,000-Year-Old Carving Challenges Bronze-Age Perceptions of Gender
The newly unearthed funerary stone suggests that ancient societies may not have adhered to strict gender binaries.
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Frederick Wiseman’s Bucket List Included Making a Restaurant Doc
"Filming in a kitchen is like working with a ballet or theater company," the filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview for the release of his new film Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros.
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Steve DiBenedetto’s Art Embraces Incoherence
I can think of few other artists who, through the process of painting, are willing to place their work in jeopardy by denying the viewer a definition or resolution.
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Tarot-Inspired Paintings Encapsulate the Latinx Pulse of LA
Moncho 1929’s latest exhibition questions what we mean when we say “history” or “beliefs” or even that something is “ours.”