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Who Goes to See Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”?
On a fall afternoon, Hyperallergic found locals and out-of-towners newly enchanted by the iconic painting, and some seeing it for the very first time.
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Indigenous Groups Rally Against Lithium Extraction in Argentina
Murals, flags, performance, and other artistic expressions define the ongoing struggle to protect lands threatened by rampant extraction of the so-called “white gold.”
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A New York Museum's House of Bones
The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.
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Yayoi Kusama Apologizes for Anti-Black Comments
As her SFMOMA exhibition opens to the public, the artist expresses "deep regrets" over past statements revealed by Hyperallergic.
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TikTok’s “Oyster Girl” Gets the Meme Treatment
A TikTok user on a date slurped down 48 oysters, got left with the bill, and the rest is history.
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New York’s Jewish Museum Union Ratifies First Contract
Unionized staffers secured pay increases and benefits in a win that one museum worker described as “empowering.”
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Required Reading
This week, Tamara Lanier's continuing quest for justice, the Airbnb guest from hell, Canada's Nazi problem, ancient LA, the cover of Salman Rushdie's new book, and more.
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Seeing the Frick Anew Through Barkley L. Hendricks’s Portraits
While the premise is to explore Hendricks’s connection to the Frick’s collection, the effect of the museum’s survey is to change the way we view those same paintings.
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The Aesthetic Allure of Motherboards and Microchips
Through textural, analog works that neither beep nor boop, artist Analia Saban has crafted a poetic commentary on our digital existence.
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Jewish Tattoos for Radical Visibility
Artist Nick F sees tattoos as a way to “mark our bodies as a holy place and create a clear sign of our commitment and pride of our Jewishness.”
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NYC Show Puts the Lens on Pet Photography
Both irrational love and endless humor, the hallmarks of life with animals, are rife in an exhibition on view at Fotografiska through January.
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London Chewing Gum Street Art at Risk of Being Washed Away
Thousands have signed a petition to protect the Millennium Bridge miniatures of artist Ben Wilson, known as "the chewing gum man."