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Massage Workers’ Collective Challenges Racism With Art
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Red Canary Song's Flower Spa: Solidarity Outside In pays tribute to past victims of anti-Asian hate and fights against future racism.
Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression
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Newly restored, G.W. Pabst’s 1929 film provides a bleak, unsettling account of a showgirl’s ruin at the greedy hands of competing male suitors.
https://hyperallergic.com/872336/pandoras-box-unleashes-a-universe-of-male-oppression-film-forum/
Required Reading
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This week, the problem with Goodreads, crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism, reflections from a MoMA stabbing victim, Just Dance makeup, and much more.
Museum Selfie-Takers Are Causing Damage by Backing Into Artworks
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Insurers warn of a "growing trend" as some visitors are more focused on stunting for the ’gram than having an ecstatic art experience.
https://hyperallergic.com/872150/museum-selfie-takers-are-causing-damage-by-backing-into-artworks/
Could This Be Humanity’s Earliest Recorded Kiss?
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A Danish scientist-couple has pushed back the date of the earliest smooch by more than a millennium.
https://hyperallergic.com/871953/could-this-be-humanitys-earliest-recorded-kiss/
Center for Book Arts Backs Out of Performance, Drawing Criticism
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The New York nonprofit said Marin Day and Kathryn Hamilton's artwork was “too closely aligned with the current conflict in Gaza.”
15 Art History-Inspired Valentine’s Day Cards
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From polycules and break-ups to situationships and forbidden love, Hyperallergic has you covered this February 14.
https://hyperallergic.com/870984/15-art-history-inspired-valentines-day-cards/
The Glittery History of Drag in New York City
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Glitter and Concrete demands we take drag seriously as a cultural art form that responds to, critiques, and is a crucial part of American history.
MoMA Workers Urge Museum to Address Israel’s Attacks on Palestine
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“We respectfully urge our institution to consider the impact of its silence,” reads the workers’ open letter.
Anti-Zionist Protesters Crash Event at NYC’s Jewish Museum
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The group of mostly Jewish activists called Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky’s paintings related to the Hamas attack "imperial propaganda" that serves to "manufacture consent for genocide."
Inside the World’s Largest Comics and Cartoons Collection
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The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University is an ultra-accessible shrine to the genre.
https://hyperallergic.com/871001/inside-billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum-ohio-state-university/
Ben Shahn’s Ever-Relevant Political Art
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The American artist-activist’s work resonates with a special sharpness these days, more than half a century after his death.
https://hyperallergic.com/868920/ben-shahn-ever-relevant-political-art/
French Protesters Throw Soup at Monet Painting in Lyon
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“This spring will be the only one we have left if we don’t react,” said activists who targeted the protective glass on Monet’s “Le Printemps.”
https://hyperallergic.com/871433/french-protesters-throw-soup-at-monet-painting-in-lyon/
René Treviño’s First Museum Survey Is at the Wellin Museum of Art
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The artist explores astronomy, Maya and Aztec history, Catholic symbolism, and queer theory in nearly 200 works in this exhibition at Hamilton College.
https://hyperallergic.com/870519/rene-trevino-first-solo-museum-show-wellin-museum-of-art/
10 Arrested in Protest Outside Brooklyn Museum
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Around 300 people gathered at the museum to decry Israel's bombardment of Gaza and the suppression of pro-Palestine voices.
https://hyperallergic.com/871328/10-arrested-in-protest-outside-brooklyn-museum/
The Importance of Art in a “Good Death”
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The resurgence of deathcare workers across industries presents an opportunity to creatively reimagine what a good death can look like.
https://hyperallergic.com/870789/the-importance-of-art-in-a-good-death/
MoMA Shutters as 500+ Protesters Infiltrate Atrium in Support of Palestine
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Organizers unveiled a banner that read “MoMA Trustees Fund Genocide, Apartheid, and Settler Colonialism.”
The Private Life of Paño Arte
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When I first encountered paño arte in an art institution I was torn in my assessment of whether or not it belonged in a museum.
https://hyperallergic.com/869813/the-private-life-of-pano-arte/
The Living Legacy of Funerary Arts
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Funerary arts play a vital role in preserving key cultural values and knowledge keeping while reminding us of our humanity by so devotedly caring for the dead.
https://hyperallergic.com/870617/the-living-legacy-of-funerary-arts/
The Writer Who Made Films to “Get Out of the House”
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A new book traces the development of Marguerite Duras, one of the 20th century’s greatest cinematic minds.