Great news today: Artist Rose B. Simpson unveils an impressive installation in the heart of Manhattan, former Hyperallergic fellow Tahnee Ahtone is appointed curator of Native American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and a beloved New York trivia contest returns to the Queens Museum after a four-year hiatus.
But it’s not all so jolly and bright: In Chechnya, authorities ban music that is too fast or too slow. That includes Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (too slow) and Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies" (too fast). We’re not making this up. Also, remember that man who sued an Australian museum for not allowing him to enter a women-only installation? He won the case.
There’s more, including the artist who fights gang violence in Haiti, and a new exhibition about American artists who lived and worked in postwar France between 1946 and 1962.
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The artist explained that the sculptures in Seed “transform the nature of a hectic and scary city, in a sense, to a place that’s really safe.”
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Dr. Moro succeeds founder George Smith as the new president of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
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 | A judge has ruled that the Des Moines Art Center must pause its planned demolition of Mary Miss’s land art installation “Greenwood Pond: Double Site”.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri has appointed Tahnee Ahtone (Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder) as curator of Native American Art.
Big Apple brainiacs can test their knowledge of New York history and geography this week at the Queen’s Museum’s Panorama Challenge.
A court orders that Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art must admit men into Kirsha Kaechele’s women-only “Ladies Lounge exhibition.
In an attempt to banish Western cultural influences, authorities in the Republic of Chechnya are banning music they deem too fast or too slow.
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Americans in Paris at the Grey Art Museum highlights the vibrancy and openness of the Paris scene for Americans.
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The 2024 art competition and festival awards over $100,000 in cash prizes to artists across the Southeast. On view April 26–May 4 in Lake City, South Carolina.
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Lesly Pierre Paul’s New Vision Art School turns to the arts as a way to continue local traditions and keep the neighborhood’s children out of gangs.
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More than a quarter century after its original release, US audiences can finally watch Hideaki Anno’s mecha anime masterpiece in theaters.
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