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How US Voters Weighed in on Arts and Culture on Their 2020 Ballots
Across the US, ballot measures included important questions on Confederate monuments, arts funding, and more.
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Souls Grown Deep Starts Unprecedented Resale Royalties for Artists
The Resale Royalty Award Program offers living artists 5% — the highest royalty threshold worldwide — of the proceeds from secondary market sales, at up to $85,000 annually per artist.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Allocated $120K to Restore and Build Monuments
One grant will fund the restoration of a Christopher Columbus statue rolled into the harbor by protesters; another will fund the creation of a Frederick Douglass monument.
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Artists, Curators, and More Reflect on Their Voting Experiences
For Election Day, Hyperallergic asked a number of cultural workers to reflect on this year’s critical election.
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Shahzia Sikander Urges a Rethinking of Art History
Sikander’s first New York solo show in nine years includes a captivating range of paintings, mosaics, animations, and the artist’s first-ever sculpture.
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Indigenous Activists Launch Political Art Campaign Ahead of the Election
Four works uplifting Indigenous narratives were distributed around the country as posters and stickers, and as large-scale murals and projections in cities across the US.
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A Message for the Next Administration: “We Must Put Creative Workers to Work”
In a proposal sent to both presidential candidates for post-pandemic recovery, Americans for the Arts suggests deploying cultural workers in fields such as community development, public health, and infrastructure.
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Artist Accuses Azerbaijani Art Center of Using His Work as “Propaganda Tool”
Ahmet Öğüt demanded the Yarat Contemporary Art Center remove his work after it featured the exhibition banner in a post using the hashtag #KarabakhIsAzerbaijan.
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Photographer Arrested by NYPD While Covering Anti-Trump Demonstration
Chae Kihn, an independent New York photographer, is seen tackled to the ground by police in video footage taken at the scene.
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Want to Help Artists Phone Bank for Tuesday’s Election? Here’s How.
“Artists for Biden/Harris” has been training art workers across the country to make calls encouraging others to vote in the most consequential election of our lifetimes.
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Black Artists Paint Biden-Harris Murals in Cities Across US
The Democratic presidential nominees commissioned eight Black artists to create murals in their communities that urge participation in the upcoming election.
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Forensic Architecture and Bellingcat Map Police Brutality at Black Lives Matter Protests
The organizations verified over 1,000 pieces of video evidence showing hundreds of attacks on civilians and journalists during this year’s demonstrations.