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Scientists “Digitally Unwrap" Amenhotep I's Mummy
This pharaonic mummy is the only one dating from the New Kingdom that has not been unwrapped and hence irreversibly damaged in the process in modern times.
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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2021 Edition
Welcome to our annual list which highlights those who are rendered powerless in a system unduly influenced by the super-rich and the institutions and businesses that serve them.
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Hyperallergic's Most Popular Posts of 2021
This year's list shows us Hyperallergic readers have a wide-ranging appetite for news, reviews, and opinions.
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A Philosopher-Painter for Troubled Times
Judith Bernstein is a great artist whose boldly original paintings forcefully respond to the troubled life of our present culture.
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Darrel Ellis's Powerful Investigations of Identity Through Family Photographs
Unlike many of his contemporaries, who centered their own lives and loves in relation to contemporary queer culture and the AIDS epidemic, Ellis looked backward.
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Clark Richert, One of Colorado's Most Prominent Artists, Dies at 80
“He asked a lot of questions and cared about what younger generations thought and were experiencing," said artist Joseph Coniff, a former student of Richert's.
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Wikipedia Auctions Off Some Of its History
The auction offered a 2000 strawberry iMac that Wales used to develop Wikipedia, and an NFT of the first Wikipedia edit, made in 2001.
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Politics and Joy Come Together in an Artist's Tribute to Her Murdered Father
Elena Brokaw’s work serves as a reminder of the tangible remains of American foreign interference and state-sanctioned violence in Guatemala — the pieces left over, decades after the collective American conscience has moved on.
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How Dürer's Travels Reveal His Voracious Appetite for Art
Albrecht Dürer always wanted to move on, to be somewhere else.
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Two Palestinian Artists Challenge Common Occupation Narratives
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme assert that the lived reality of occupation involves a multiplicity of factors that are erased or overlooked by their controlled representations.
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A Contemporary Art Survey Highlights the Multiple Identities of the Indian State of Kerala
Lokame Tharavadu explores a variety of artistic perspectives on home, belonging, and the universal spirit of humanity that persists in the midst of a global pandemic.
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Dozens of Israeli Artists Ask to Withdraw From Exhibition After a Political Artwork Was Removed
Ramat Gan’s Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen called the work “racist towards ultra-orthodox Jews,” which the artist vehemently denies.