December 13, 2019
Farmworker Unions and LGBTQ Activists Clash Over Nude Portrait of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata
At a Mexico City museum, farmworker unions demanded the painting of the Mexican Revolution leader be destroyed. Their protest escalated to a clash with LGBTQ activists, amounting to violence and use of homophobic slurs.
Valentina Di Liscia
Best of 2019: Our Top 20 United States Art Shows
Our favorite US shows of 2019, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.
An Artist Activates Histories Through Memory
In Zineb Sedira’s work, archival material is not dead and past, but is active, suggesting that there is no such thing as “frozen in time.”
Ksenia M. Soboleva
The Directors Mixing Fact and Fiction at the Forefront of New Chilean Cinema
In a charged political moment, hybrid documentaries speak to Chilean identity and struggle better than any other form of filmmaking.
Jaime Grijalba
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As TikTok’s Popularity Rises, Concerns Arise Over App’s Censorship and Security
The app is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, which has been accused of censoring users for posting content about issues including the persecution of Uighur Muslims and Hong Kong.
Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana Sold Three Editions Before It Was Eaten; Rijksmuseum Receives 24 Mapplethorpe Photos
Also, the top-grossing painting at Art Basel Miami Beach was a Marc Chagall sold by Hammer Galleries for over $2 million, and more.
Purple Rain and She’s Gotta Have It Among 2019 Picks for National Film Registry
Since 1988, the National Film Registry has added an annual set of 25 films in order to “ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America’s film heritage.”
Dalit Musicians Are Playing A New Tune
Through their music, artists like Ginni Mahi and The Casteless Collective have protested the ways Dalits have been maltreated and marginalized in Hindu culture, often called “untouchables.”
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Four proposals were selected from 512 submissions, rated by over 400 jurors who cast over 14,000 votes. The winners will be presented as part of the organization’s 2020-21 Exhibition Season.
A Look Inside Centre Pompidou’s Recent Partnership With Shanghai’s West Bund Museum
With this collaboration, the French have a foothold in Shanghai and should focus less on disseminating “expertise” and more on opportunities to learn.
Andrew Stooke
Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Sculptures Echo the Precariousness of Place
Cruzvillegas’s forms embody the precariousness and hope, if not the danger, of contemporary notions of borders, and the forces at work that make them porous or impenetrable.
Laura Raicovich
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Ebony G. Patterson, Jill Downen, Lavar Munroe, and Adrian Cox Earned MFAs From WashU. You Could, Too.
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A Master Class in Frustration: Notes on Cunningham From a Critic and Dance Lover
I’ve studied dance nearly my whole life. I understand well the ways it can be inscrutable and transcendent. More often than not, the new documentary reveals how little dance is understood, and the pitfalls of trying to represent it.
Laila Pedro
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The Once-Mystical Energy of San Francisco’s Art and Poetry Scene
Revisiting the work of Jess, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who just turned 100 years old.
Nathan Gelgud
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