“A curator of European paintings reflects on an ancient Mesopotamian sculpture; a researcher of Islamic art ponders a bust from a German-Austrian sculptor; and a managing editor is reminded of his own experiences in a municipal office” in a new book from The Met. hyperallergic.com/the-met-muse...

The Met Museum's Staff Have Some Thoughts About the Art

A new book gathers essays by the museum’s curators, researchers, librarians, and conservators on everything from Renaissance portraiture to the work of Wendy Red Star.

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Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Imagine being an artist who profited for decades from an exploitative system, ignoring the publications that have been reporting on it day in and day out, and then penning a self-righteous essay in an academic journal about how the art world needs to wake up. Oh wait ...

It’s one thing to have to pay 50 cents for milk in your coffee. It’s another degree of humiliation altogether to have it be called a “Special Splash”…

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I wrote about the Epstein files and what it teaches us about the rot in the art world.

Epstein Files Expose the Depths of the Art World's Rot

How do we empower arts leaders to reject funding from corrupt individuals in favor of donors who have proven themselves to be civic leaders?

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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

We love to see it!

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Bandcamp announced that AI-generated music will be prohibited from the app, and that AI deepfakes of real human musicians will be ‘strictly prohibited.’

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Rodolfo Walsh, the Argentine writer whose book “Operación masacre” (1957) is considered the first novel of investigative nonfiction (before Capote’s “In Cold Blood”), would have turned 99 yesterday if he hadn’t been shot and killed in Buenos Aires at the hands of the military dictatorship.

“AI processing your emails means sharing the content and metadata of those emails with Google’s cloud-based Gemini. While Google has denied that this data is used to train its AI, it’s certainly available to it.“

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Google Changes Gmail After 20 Years—2 Billion Users Must Now Decide

Five Venezuelan artists in the diaspora shared their thoughts with us in the aftermath of the US attacks. We are trying to reach artists in Venezuela, but many are afraid to speak. If you’d like to speak confidentially, you can reach me on Signal: valentinadl.67 hyperallergic.com/five-venezue...

Five Venezuelan Artists Respond to US Attacks

Artists and art workers in the diaspora shared a mix of emotions, from hope of a better future to anger over the unsanctioned intervention and fear of what’s to come.

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“Lo que validamos por conveniencia hoy será precedente mañana. Si ofrecemos cobertura moral al bombardeo de Caracas porque Maduro ‘se lo merece’, el mecanismo ya está disponible para cualquier otro escenario.“ elpais.com/opinion/2026...

Lo que muere en Caracas

Con el ataque a Venezuela, Trump cree estar mostrando fuerza cuando en realidad está destruyendo el único recurso que EE UU aún tenía: la legitimidad

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The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.

Small but loud and proud group of Palestine solidarity activists protesting Netanyahu’s visit to Surfside, Miami Beach on 12/31. Happy new year and Free Palestine.

January 1 might ring in a new year, but it's also a day when copyright protections expire for a bunch of cool old stuff that we can now freely access, republish, reinterpret, and revitalize.

Celebrate Public Domain Day with Betty Boop and Piet Mondrian

"The Little Engine That Could," a Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel collaboration, and many other works are now free to use and reuse.

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HAPPY MAYOR MAMDANI DAY to all who celebrate!

Trump Spent 2025 Making Trans Lives Unlivable. It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them. theintercept.com/2025/12/31/t... last column of the year @theintercept.com

Trump Spent 2025 Making Trans Lives Unlivable. It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them.

Elected Democrats haven’t done nearly enough to oppose attacks on gender-affirming care. They risk being on the wrong side of history.

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a molecule is a group of non-monogamous moles

For artists, museum acquisitions are a major milestone. Young Joon Kwak told us the Leslie Lohman’s acquisition of her work, which addresses trans and nonbinary visibility, was “a way of saying we’re here, we’ve always been here, and we’re not going anywhere.” hyperallergic.com/15-landmark-...

15 Landmark Museum Acquisitions in 2025

A rare Jacob Lawrence painting, the Louvre’s first video artwork, a trove of Indigenous art, and a Frank Lloyd Wright house are on this year’s list.

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For @hyperallergic.bsky.social, I rounded up 10 artworks that dared to call out the powerful, condemn injustices, and envision a better world in 2025. (Exactly 0 of them were on view at an art fair.) hyperallergic.com/10-artworks-...

10 Artworks That Spoke Truth to Power in 2025

From public murals to museum walls, artists mobilized their practices to call out injustices, expose wrongdoing, and advocate for a better world.

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This is my annual notice that if you are a brand I have purchased something from I do not need you to wish me a merry Christmas. Sincerely, a grinch

Greta Thunberg arrested in the UK for holding a sign. That’s how things are going.

Thank you Canada again for your services.

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The "60 Minutes" story that was shelved by Bari Weiss to kowtow to the convicted felon actually streamed in full in Canada — and instantly spread across the web. Thanks, Canada! www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/m... via @cnn.com

I have a lot of respect for Hell Gate so I really hope this 12-hour work day on a job description someone sent me is … just a typo

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

Hyperallergic staff writer @isafarfan.bsky.social talked to nine art models (the people who pose for artists in live drawing classes) about their fight for better pay and recognition. Truly a must-read story: hyperallergic.com/art-models-s...

Art Models Struggle for a Living Wage and Recognition

The workers who pose for artists at historic organizations like the Art Students League say they are overworked and underpaid in a field that rarely values them.

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Who am I to say that Somalis don’t have the right to Minnesota? I saw a few TikToks about it and that’s pretty much as factual as the Bible.

"The original story is about people forcibly going into exile and becoming refugees. It's about political violence. It's about authoritarianism. All that's already in the Gospel.” story by Emma Cieslik for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/anti-ice-nat...

Anti-ICE Nativities Take a Stand Against Trump’s Cruelty

Despite pushback from right-wing leaders, nativity scenes with a humanitarian message are spreading across the country.

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