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Today, an Indigenous perspective on Frida Kahlo, a new Princess Diana sculpture has been unveiled, and cops are using pop music to prohibit protesters from posting videos online.

It’s been a long pandemic (and it’s not over yet) so the editorial team will be taking this coming week off to recharge and get ready for a big summer and fall. So as we step away from our electronic devices, we invited Hyperallergic editors to put together an email each day this week that highlights some of their favorite posts from the last year that deserve a second look. We hope you enjoy this week of reflection and we’ll be back at it next week.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

An Indigenous Perspective on Frida Kahlo

Kahlo’s aesthetic reflects the vogue of her time: the mythologizing of a homogenized Indigenous past afforded by her proximity to whiteness and wealth.

Joanna Garcia Cheran

What's Happening

Miami-based artists are stepping in to help the victims and families impacted by the Surfside Condo Collapse.
The newly unveiled larger-than-life Princess Diana sculpture prompts criticism pointed to flaws in the monument.
A police officer admits to playing copyrighted music to keep activist recording off of YouTube.

“It Makes One Speechless”: 350 Sculptures Invoke First Enslaved Africans

Dana King’s sculptures surround a plinth in San Francisco that formerly held a statue of Francis Scott Key, an anti-abolitionist.

Emily Wilson

A Staggering New Play Creates Space for Black Interiority and Grief

What to Send Up When It Goes Down holds Black people at its center, inviting unique moments of commiseration, anger, and helplessness with no apologies.

Erica Cardwell

A Bright New Grocery Store, Made Entirely of Recycled Plastic

In Robin Frohardt’s immersive installation, the cereal rattles like it’s filled with bottle caps and the water bottles are filled with dirty, cloudy liquid.

Reneé Reizman

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