The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is showing an 1822 painting of Yarrow Mamout, a Muslim native of Guinea who was forced into slavery in America.
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Study Claims 80.5% of Artists Represented by NYC’s Top 45 Galleries Are White
How diverse are the artists shown at New York’s art galleries? Well …
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Painting the Violent Life Cycles of Bruises
In his new series at James Cohan Gallery, Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star, Byron Kim paints bruises that radiate tenderness and hurt.
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Remembering Little Syria, a Forgotten Manhattan Neighborhood
From the 1880s to 1940s, a community of mostly Arab Americans thrived in a Lower Manhattan neighborhood that would later be the site of the World Trade Center.
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The Group Working Behind the Scenes to Diversify Museum Staffs
“I would never have gotten this opportunity without the support of the Museum Hue community,” said Stephanie PhaFa Roy, Visitor Services and Digital Content Manager at MoCADA.
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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Another White Superhero!
The American white superman is a myth. When we insist on upholding the idea that he’s real, we all suffer.
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Why I Don’t Buy the Premise of Christoph Büchel’s Icelandic Mosque Pavilion
I’ve been hesitant to embrace Christoph Büchel’s project for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale from the beginning.
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Telling the History of the First “Illegals” in the United States
Chinese American consciously simulates the American immigrant’s journey: hope, dehumanization, mixed blessings; individual narratives that together paint the greater arc of America.
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Emojis May Be Going Multiculti, but What About Art?
Here at Hyperallergic, we’ve discussed — and griped about — the limited menu of emoji on smartphones but now there’s word that Apple may expand the usual emoji suspects with more racial diversity to reflect a more inclusive reality. But can I suggest a few others?
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Instagram, Art, and Native American Narratives
On Twitter recently, #NotYourNarrative popped up, a series of hashtag statements largely from persons of color in the United States who wanted to challenge dominant media narratives.
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Jews in a Box
As anyone who’s ever been expected to represent their entire religion/race/ethnicity/gender/world view knows, it’s a pretty difficult task. And yet this is what it seems random volunteers are being asked to do for an exhibition that opened at Berlin’s Jewish Museum a week and a half ago. The show, titled The Whole Truth … everything you always wanted to know about Jews, features a three-sided glass box with a bench inside, on which Jews will sit, one at a time, for the duration of the exhibition (through Sept. 1), answering visitors’ questions and responding to their comments.
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What Do You Do with White Nationalist Art Once the Irony’s Gone?
Charles Krafft’s artwork would be creepy no matter what. The artist makes porcelain ceramics in the traditions of Dutch Delftware and Italian maiolica pottery, but with a postmodern twist: the pieces are shaped like guns and grenades, or feature scenes of warfare and death (Disasterware), or portraits of Hitler and Charles Manson. There is a soap and cologne set called “Forgiveness,” which features swastikas. And Krafft creates china pieces — memorial and reliquaries, according to his site — using human cremains instead of calcinated cow bone.
