Performance
A Live Podcast Centers Stories From Bosnia, Palestine, and Mexico
In its best moments, Radio Live made the world feel smaller with rich vignettes from lives we might have little intimate access to.
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Art
An Online Project Documents Settler Violence Around the World
Deathscapes features hard data and articles pertaining to Indigenous issues and custodial deaths, and case studies and artwork responding to deaths worldwide.
In Brief
Torkwase Dyson Wins Studio Museum’s $50,000 Wein Prize
"[T]his strengthens my commitment to black spatial justice," Dyson said of the prize, awarded annually to artists of African descent.
News
A Journalist's Citizenship Is Revoked Months After Criticizing the Indian Prime Minister
More than 260 leading writers, journalists, and artists signed a PEN America letter calling on the Indian government to reverse its decision to rescind a citizenship document for Aatish Taseer. Signatories include Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Christiane Amanpour.
Film
Twisting the Familiar Into Uncanny Cinematic Forms
Surface Knowledge, the latest Flaherty NYC screening series, presents enthralling experimental documentary shorts which play with ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
Announcement
Washington University’s Campus Transformation Unites Its Graduate Programs in Art and Architecture
Explore the Sam Fox School’s expansive new spaces and see Ai Weiwei: Bare Life during the Prospective Graduate Student Open House on November 18.
Books
A Multi-faceted Look at Francis Bacon’s Psychology
The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple.
Announcement
Apply for the SVA MA Curatorial Practice Program
SVA Curatorial Practice offers a New York-Based, immersive two-year program with an intense focus on professional training.
Art
Golden Toilet Heist Becomes Fodder for New Art Insurance Campaign
Arte Generali saw a solid gold opportunity to penetrate the Italian art market, poking fun at the theft of Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet in its new campaign.
Film
Inside the Spate of Cab Driver Suicides in New York
Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Days of Black and Yellow, a documentary short about the pressures the rideshare industry has put on cab drivers.
In Brief
China Sides with Greece Over Return of Parthenon Marbles
President Xi Jinping, expressed his support of Greece's request to win back the 2,500-year-old friezes after 30 years of British refusal.
Art
Considering Photography's Past, Future, and Pitfalls
At a Fotofocus symposium, curators, panelists, and artists leapt into the fray of the medium's existential crisis, rather than just celebrating aesthetics or art history.