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Required Reading

Required Reading

This week, the role of the artist in times of crisis, how Yale used counterterrorist...

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Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures

Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures

Focused on the SWANA region, "The Art of Dining" transforms meals into narrative...

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Mary Ann Peters’s Obscured Memorials to Buried Histories

Mary Ann Peters’s Obscured Memorials to Buried Histories

More context could have resulted in greater connections between viewers and the...

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This Hanukkah, Let’s Bring Back Judith Menorahs

This Hanukkah, Let’s Bring Back Judith Menorahs

The legendary heroine was once widely recognized with fried ricotta pancakes during...

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UCLA’s New Three-Year MFA in Media Arts Is Accepting Applications

UCLA’s New Three-Year MFA in Media Arts Is Accepting Applications

The program provides a rigorous environment for bold experimentation in new modes...

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Banksy Shares Enigmatic Madonna and Child Artwork

Banksy Shares Enigmatic Madonna and Child Artwork

Some users online interpreted the image as a symbol of suffering Palestinian mothers...

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Noguchi Museum Workers Move to Unionize

Noguchi Museum Workers Move to Unionize

The news comes just months after the museum terminated three employees for wearing...

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Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: December 2024

Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: December 2024

Sunburns, wall labels rewritten, Camille Claudel, and much more in this puzzle morsel....

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Sheila Hicks’s Faith in the Latent Power of Materials

Sheila Hicks’s Faith in the Latent Power of Materials

An invigorating survey of mostly recent works by the American artist at Kunsthalle...

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Louise Bourgeois’s Iconic Spider Returning to Tate Modern

Louise Bourgeois’s Iconic Spider Returning to Tate Modern

“Maman” will go on view at the London museum where it made its debut as part of...

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The Sinister Subtext of Farshid Bazmandegan’s Paintings

The Sinister Subtext of Farshid Bazmandegan’s Paintings

The artist’s latest show connects the art industry with geopolitics, urging us to...

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Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” Added to National Register of Historic Places

Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” Added to National Register...

The 1,500-foot-long sculpture on the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah is considered...

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The Return Is a Shabby CliffsNotes Version of the Odyssey

The Return Is a Shabby CliffsNotes Version of the Odyssey

Homer’s Odysseus is complicated and playful — a man who has suffered, and is changed....

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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2024 Edition

The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2024 Edition

Our annual list recognizes and celebrates those in our community who are left in...

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Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry in Space

Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry in Space

The artist suggests that like her fragile assemblages, peace demands care, balance,...

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Surreptitious Scents

Leonardo da Vinci’s Surreptitious Scents

A new catalog invites us into the artist’s interest in smell and the role of perfumes...