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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.”
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Carla Williams Takes Ownership of the Gaze
Williams’s scholarly interest in the Black female form paralleled a decades-long private photographic practice that began in the 1980s.
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Photographer Terry Richardson Sued for Sexual Assault, Again
He is accused of assaulting two women and displaying images of the alleged attacks in a New York exhibition.
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Thousands March to American Museum of Natural History in Pro-Gaza Protest
Activists called out the museum’s holdings of Native remains while denouncing “the genocide of Indigenous Palestinians.”
Opinion
Tigray’s Cultural Heritage Is in Danger, But Does the World Care?
The fate of innumerable sacred lives, buildings, and artifacts destroyed mainly by Ethiopian and invading Eritrean troops are still being willfully ignored by Western governments and international organizations.
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Activists Occupy Tate Modern to Demand Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
Dozens of artists and cultural workers gathered in the museum’s Turbine Hall to show their solidarity with the Palestinian community.