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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.

https://hyperallergic.com/872403/massage-workers-collective-challenges-racism-with-art-red-canary-song-flower-spa/

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.

https://hyperallergic.com/871029/required-reading-668/

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.”

https://hyperallergic.com/871819/center-for-book-arts-backs-out-of-kathryn-hamilton-marin-day-performance-drawing-criticism/

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.

https://hyperallergic.com/871259/glitter-concrete-history-of-drag-in-new-york-city-elyssa-maxx-goodman/

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.

https://hyperallergic.com/871709/moma-workers-open-letter-urges-museum-to-address-israels-attacks-on-palestine/

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."

https://hyperallergic.com/871691/anti-zionist-protesters-crash-zoya-cherkassky-event-at-nyc-jewish-museum/

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.”

https://hyperallergic.com/871345/moma-shutters-as-500-protesters-infiltrate-atrium-in-support-of-palestine/

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.

https://hyperallergic.com/870959/writer-who-made-films-to-get-out-of-the-house-marguerite-duras-my-cinema/