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Central Park’s first sculptures of real women, thorns in the 🌹Rose Garden🌹, 1902 Footage of a Flying Train, a podcast on the cancelled exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and more.

Our latest podcast episode invites Hyperallergic staff reporters to discuss the recent cancellation of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum. Has the museum learned anything? Is this a warning to other museums eager to seem “current”? Listen in, and share your opinion if you’d like in the comments.

– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Monument to Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth Unveiled in Central Park

A statue of three pioneers of women’s rights joined the park’s collection, which previously featured only fictional women.

Valentina Di Liscia

Melania Trump’s Revamped Rose Garden Is Rough Around the Hedges

While Jackie O rose to the occasion, Melania’s redesign reinforced her reputation for severity in her style choices.

Sarah Rose Sharp

Latest Reviews

Our Favorite MFA Work From Yale and RISD

For Hyperallergic’s final installment in a series dedicated to highlighting exciting MFA work, we looked to students from Yale University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Dessane Lopez Cassell

This 1902 Footage of a Flying Train Is the Film of the Summer

The Museum of Modern Art has released a short film of a German elevated train from its archives, and it absolutely rules.

Dan Schindel

Cao Fei’s Science Fiction Fever Dreams

In Blueprints, Cao works primarily as an anthropologist of sorts, creating a space where the past and the future are not so easily demarcated.

Sanjana Varghese

Listen Now

Podcast: Why Did the Whitney Museum Cancel a Political Art Exhibition?

Within 24 hours, online critics pushed the New York museum to reconsider an exhibition that many saw as “predatory.” Why?