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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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This week, Gramsci hates New Year's, art market bubble, advice from art dealers, remembering Ellsworth Kelly, and more.
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Weekend Words: Chocolate
Last week, a food blogger called into question a famous Brooklyn chocolate maker's "bean-to-bar" reputation.
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This week, origins of Etruscans, Pollock in Dallas, artists and scholars on the margins, Iran's underground, MSM's obsession with terrorism, and more.
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Weekend Words: 2015
For the last Weekend Words of the year, Hyperallergic Weekend invited its contributors to compose a brief meditation, declaration, exhortation or snatch of verse as a way of saying goodbye to 2015.
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This week, Calatrava's new Brazilian museum, an intergenerational dialogue in the arts, Chicago artists respond to the Laquan MacDonald video, issues with public art in New York, and more.
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Weekend Words: Star
The greatly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the series, opened this weekend.
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This week, being trolled by Fox News, a photograph that took 720,000 exposures to get right, Lee Miller's war photography, ISIS and looting, drones catching drones, and more.
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Weekend Words: Gun
The New York Times reports that fear of restrictive gun laws causes a spike in gun sales.
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In Light of the Newest One, a Brief History of Mona Lisa Theories
It seems the Mona Lisa will never fail to inspire research and lead to discoveries that, though questionable, will never fail to grab headlines and cause every Leonardo expert in the world to weigh in on the matter and inevitably butt heads with each other.
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To the Man Suing the Met for “Aesthetic Whitewashing,” Here Are Some of the Museum's Non-Aryan Jesuses
One New Yorker is suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art for displaying fair-skinned and blonde-haired artworks of Jesus Christ, claiming that they are racist and made him suffer from emotional distress.
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This week, the rise of philanthrocaptialism, race debt in the US, how images fade in the media, Pantone's colors of the year, the Art Preservation Index, and more.