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Can You Apologize to an Entire Indigenous Nation?

Is public apology a practice that should be abandoned, or should it be reimagined? Looking at AA Bronson’s “A Public Apology to Siksika Nation” provides some guidance.
Why Photographers Need Their Own Bill of Rights

Recently a group of photography collectives launched a Photo Bill of Rights to advocate for “lens-based workers,” to challenge the visual bias of white supremacy, and to increase transparency and inclusivity in the photo industry.
SVA MA Curatorial Practice Opens Fall 2021 Applications

At the New York-based, globally linked program for professional curatorial training, faculty and international guests provide expertise and a network of connections.
E. McKnight Kauffer, a Commercial Artist With Ideals

For nearly 20 years between the two world wars, E. McKnight Kauffer, an American, was the most celebrated graphic designer in England.
How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay

From khakis to pith hats, certain items of clothing have become enduring emblems of European colonialism and particular scholars who know these problematic histories choose to engage in the aesthetics of colonialism in their everyday lives.
From Plaster to Plastic, Artists Take Inventive Approaches to Face Masks

In Denver, an exhibition of artist-designed masks shows that face coverings are not only crucial to our health but can also offer unique means of self-expression.
A Jacob Lawrence Painting, Thought Missing for Decades, Was in a NYC Apartment All Along

A recent visitor to the Metropolitan Museum’s current Jacob Lawrence exhibition knew of an artwork by Lawrence in a neighbor’s collection that he suspected might belong to the Struggle series.
Diedrick Brackens Explores the Warps and Wefts of Black and Queer Histories

In darling divined, Brackens teases out the symbolism, allegory, and parable long associated with global cosmologies of tapestry weaving.
A Tribute to Sylvia Rivera and the Spirit of NYC’s Old Meatpacking District

Hyperallergic has exclusive digital access to This is an Address, Sasha Wortzel’s meditative film on displacement, erasure, and queer communities along the Hudson River piers.
Climate Activists Crash Arctic Exhibition at British Museum to Protest Oil Funding

BP or not BP? staged the demonstration as part of a day of action convened by the Alaskan Indigenous organizations Defend the Sacred AK and Native Movement.
LA’s Art Spaces Are Focusing on the Election

From a voting station for those who can’t vote to a fascinating history of campaign ads in the US, artists in Los Angeles got you covered ahead of November 3.
A New Commission at the National Museum in Warsaw Is Dangerously Homophobic

The new commemorative religious installation at the National Museum is hostile towards the LGBTQ community and does not uphold the values it claims to propagate.
Making Art Against the Backdrop of Incarceration

In a year of perpetual change, Marking Time demonstrates the urgent need for a shift in culture, one where crisis need not be the charge for moving towards a better world.
CCS Bard’s Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies Offers a Transformative Education

The deadline to apply for a Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies at Bard College is February 1, 2021.
The Ugly History of Forced Sterilizations in Women’s Prisons

The new documentary Belly of the Beast is an investigation into modern-day eugenics in the US.
Claudia Hart Breathes Life into Static Tropes of Modernism

The Ruins at Bitforms Gallery riffs off the work of influential Modernists to create vivid digital simulations
Black Women Performers Discuss “Unrecognized Labor”

Gabrielle Civil, mayfield brooks, and Jasmine Nyende respond to Nikita Gale’s installation PRIVATE DANCER at the California African American Museum.
In Brooklyn, an Artist-decorated Boulder Might Disappear Due to Fracking

While Sculpture Center and MOMA PS1 have shown interest in exhibiting “THE ROCK,” sculptors Pam Lins and Halsey Rodman say the ongoing installation “could disappear at any moment.”
A Performance Protest Against the “Petty Thuggery of Fascist Monsters”

From sunrise to sunset, the Afield will present a new multimedia performance which mines the details and redactions of the Mueller report.
Award-winning Photographs of Hair-raising Weather Patterns

From a dust storm in Arizona to a blizzard on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Royal Meteorological Society’s annual photography awards display the beauty and power of nature.