Good morning. A 32-year-old independent videographer who captured the vandalism of Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak’s home has been arrested and charged with a hate crime, immediately raising concerns among press freedom advocacy organizations. Read more in our report below. And because slow news days aren’t a thing anymore, Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her VP pick today, launching an avalanche of the most wholesome memes the internet has seen since Senator Bernie Sanders’s mittens. (Good times!) There’s lots more today, including Banksy’s latest murals, a union update from the Storm King Art Center, and Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian’s conversation with Tremaine Fellow Álvaro Ibarra on the fascinating tradition of paño arte.
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Banksy’s stenciled silhouettes of a Nubian Ibex on a ledge and two elephants in windowsills raised questions about the elusive street artist’s messaging.
Press freedom advocacy organizations expressed alarm at the decision to arrest and charge independent journalist Samuel Seligson for reportedly filming the vandalism of several Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes.
Workers at the Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley passed their first-ever union contracts in late July after eight months of negotiations.
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Hyperallergic fellow Álvaro Ibarra explored the motifs, circulation, and complex questions around ownership of the art tradition created by incarcerated Chicanos.
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The artist’s exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is clever, but it takes on a vast and messy past with a touch that is sometimes too light. | Alice Procter
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In this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer’s masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting. | Mark Dery
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