Jun 16, 2021 • View in browser

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Today, Barcelona will preserve a little-known Keith Haring mural, the Smithsonian is repatriating a pore-Incan gold object to Peru, and Review Editor Dessane Lopez Cassell talks to curator Laura Raicovich about her new book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in the Age of Protest.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Juneteenth Performances, Art-making Workshops, and More at Creative Time’s Red Stage

“The Red Stage has been a beautiful site for holding our shared grief and finding joy together through it all,” explains co-organizer Diya Vij.

Dessane Lopez Cassell

Latest News

Keith Haring’s mural at Billares Ars (formerly Ars Studio) in Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona City Council steps in to preserve a little-known Keith Haring mural at a former nightclub, which was slated to become a home for seniors.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian returns a pre-Incan gold ornament, the “Echenique Disc” to Peru.
An online fundraiser has generated more than $30,000 to help repair a Bethlehem arts center that was ransacked by Israeli forces last month.

Art & Film

Working With Tobacco, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill Offers Decolonial Possibilities

In her first US solo museum show, Hill invites reflection on tobacco’s mass consumption while underscoring its long Indigenous history.

Daniella Brito

50 Years of Films About Japan's Downtrodden

Japan Society’s online retrospective “Cinema of Struggle” features eight movies from director Kazuo Hara and producer Sachiko Kobayashi.

Dan Schindel

Travel to Places “Heavy With History” in Deborah Stratman’s Films

Stratman captures charged, if overlooked, histories of Illinois, from the Trail of Tears to Chicago’s Black Panther headquarters.

Elisa Wouk Almino

More From Hyperallergic

Laura Raicovich on How to Make Museums “Better for More People”

Hyperallergic talks to the curator, writer, and former museum director about her new book “Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.”

Dessane Lopez Cassell

How an Art Museum Betrays Its Social Class Bias

When I worked as a security guard at the Toledo Museum of Art there was no mechanism by which the frontline staff could help shape the museum’s content.

Truman Chambers

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