Pro-Palestine activists staged a demonstration during the Whitney’s “Free Friday Night” event on Friday, May 3. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) The fifth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City became the site of an audiovisual demonstration by an anonymous group of pro-Palestine arts and culture workers yesterday […]
The shifting of the seasons gives us an opportunity for reinvention. Alongside the rising temps, we begin to crave a deeper sense of novelty in our lives. A shake-up of the everyday. The summer is a time when we move outwards—operating at a pace and scheduled abundance that contrasts our colder months’ lax itineraries. (For
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This beautiful painting by Nicolas Poussin has for centuries bamboozled art historians, who can’t decide whether it’s showing the birth of Venus or the triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite. Debates like this are the marrow of the specialist field of art history. If they don’t initially quicken your pulse, don’t worry. Just try to keep
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SAN FRANCISCO — Wearing a bright safety vest with the words “Safe Passage” on the back, Tatiana Alabsi strides through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school, navigating broken bottles and stained sleeping bags along tired streets that occasionally reek of urine. Along the way in one of America’s most notorious neighborhoods,
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