Gazan Artist Speaks About a Lifetime of Trauma and War

Good morning. ☀️ Today, the Prado Museum is hanging art around Madrid, you can add your name to a let

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Good morning. ☀️Today, the Prado Museum is hanging art around Madrid, you can add your name to a letter to ensure the National Museum of the American Latino gets a proper place in DC, and an interview with 21-year-old artist Malak Matar, who lives in Gaza.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief Enjoying this newsletter? Consider sharing it with a friend.Just forward this email and let them know they can subscribe to Hyperallergic newsletters for free at newsletters.hyperallergic.com.

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Gazan Artist Speaks About a Lifetime of Trauma and War “We live in constant fear of censorship. No artist should have that fear,” says 21-year-old artist Malak Matar. Hakim Bishara

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Julie Mehretu, "Dissident Score," (2019–2021) (photo by Tom Powel Imaging; courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman)

A painting by Julie Mehretu could raise $4M for mass incarceration reform. A Belarusian art exhibition untangling the country’s response to the coronavirus was closed by authorities this March, leading to the arrest of several of its organizers. You can add your name to a letter addressed to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch urging him to ensure the new National Museum of the American Latino gets a proper place on the National Mall.

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