> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Remembering Sliman Mansour - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/remembering-sliman-mansour/ - Published: 2026-08-25T10:00:02.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-25T10:00:05.000Z - Description: The influential Palestinian painter dies at 79, the National Museum of the American Latino is still looking for a home, and the new horse mural that’ll put a smile on your face. - Author: Hyperallergic - Tags: Daily Newsletter, Newsletter Sliman Mansour, a major figure in Palestinian art, died yesterday at age 79\. Drawing from the bleeding wound of the Nakba and the fight for liberation, his work is a defiant response to those who wish Palestine was just a distant memory. Mansour painted the pride and dignity of his people. There is no anger in his canvases. No call for revenge. Just a people who deserve to live on their land. I know for a fact that he wished none of these paintings had to be made in the first place. *—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief* --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/08/AIDS_15-1.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/how-aids-activists-turned-graphic-design-into-a-weapon/) [ How AIDS Activists Turned Graphic Design Into a Weapon ](https://hyperallergic.com/how-aids-activists-turned-graphic-design-into-a-weapon/) In the mid-1980s, as the AIDS crisis simmered hotter and hotter in the apartments and bathhouses of New York, a band of frightened, fed-up young men took to copy shops around town. They were watching friends, partners, and lovers waste away with a mysterious virus, blamefully dubbed the “Gay Plague” by some. These kids knew what they were doing when they took jobs at Kinko’s. Clandestinely running the printers after hours — a so-far-indifferent corporate America owed the public more than the cost of a couple print-outs, they reasoned — they produced graphically stark, zanily colored flyers, posters, and stickers. In other words, a PR toolkit. Then, they wheat-pasted New York with abandon, demanding action. | Amy Levine-Kennedy [Read More ](https://hyperallergic.com/how-aids-activists-turned-graphic-design-into-a-weapon/) --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/08/saic-ad.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/meet-with-the-school-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago-at-admissions-events-across-the-us-and-online/) ****Meet with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at Admissions Events Across the US and Online** Learn more about the graduate degrees offered at SAIC and get all of your questions answered. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/meet-with-the-school-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago-at-admissions-events-across-the-us-and-online/) --- ## News [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/08/sliman-mansour.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/sliman-mansour-painter-of-palestinian-hope-and-humanity-dies-at-79/) - Sliman Mansour, a renowned Palestinian painter who chronicled over six decades of his country’s fight for liberation, [dies at age 79](https://hyperallergic.com/sliman-mansour-painter-of-palestinian-hope-and-humanity-dies-at-79/). - Amid Trump's threats to defund the National Museum of the American Latino, the Smithsonian board [will reportedly vote on housing the fledgling institution](https://hyperallergic.com/amid-trumps-threats-a-potential-home-for-smithsonian-latino-museum/) in the recently reopened Arts & Industries Building — a move that would allow it to bypass Congressional approval. - Mayor Zohran Mamdani [announces more than $8.4 million in grants](https://hyperallergic.com/nyc-arts-nonprofits-benefit-from-mamdanis-8-4-million-in-grants/) toward nonprofit and small business initiatives, including public art commissions and arts programming. - The Detroit Institute of the Arts [unveils a new public mural](https://hyperallergic.com/detroit-institute-of-art-unveils-neighhh-borly-display-of-love/) featuring a horse named Champagne. --- ## From Our Critics [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/08/maria-martins.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/maria-martins-was-more-than-just-duchamps-lover/) [ Maria Martins Was More Than Just Duchamp’s Lover ](https://hyperallergic.com/maria-martins-was-more-than-just-duchamps-lover/) A new book by leading Duchamp scholar Francis M. Naumann chronicles the artist’s affair with the Brazilian sculptor, but frequently reduces her influence and career to sexual allure. | Lauren Moya Ford [Read More ](https://hyperallergic.com/maria-martins-was-more-than-just-duchamps-lover/) --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/08/haley-institute.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/grounded-in-grain-washed-in-the-water/) ****Grounded in Grain, Washed in the Water** Black Southern traditions are not relics to be preserved behind glass, but dynamic systems of knowledge that continue to evolve. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/grounded-in-grain-washed-in-the-water/) --- ## From the Archive [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/08/gala-dali.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/michele-gerber-klein-surreal-gala-dali/) [ The Story of Surrealism Isn’t Whole Without Gala Dalí ](https://hyperallergic.com/michele-gerber-klein-surreal-gala-dali/) In *Surreal*, Michèle Gerber Klein asks us to confront the unjust eclipse of Gala’s legacy by that of her husband, Salvador, whose career she brought to fruition. [Read More ](https://hyperallergic.com/michele-gerber-klein-surreal-gala-dali/) featured listing ****Gulf Coast Journal — Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing** Gulf Coast invites entries for the 2026 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. Win $3,000 for first place or $1,000 as a runner-up. This year’s judge is critic Andrew Berardini. Deadline: August 31, 2026 | [gulfcoastmag.org](https://bit.ly/4g9epas?ref=hyperallergic.com) See more in this month’s [list of opportunities](https://hyperallergic.com/opportunities-in-august-2026/) for artists, writers, and art workers!