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April 24, 2020

The ‘Dancing Pallbearers’ Meme Is a Danse Macabre for the Time of COVID

How a Ghanaian funerary service’s routine reinvented a trope as old as the Middle Ages.

Dan Schindel

Live Blogging a Convening on Equity, Collaboration, and Sustainability in the Arts

The Common Field Convening, originally slated to take place in Houston, has moved its workshops, conversations, and panels online. Stay tuned for Hyperallergic’s live coverage.

Jasmine Weber, Valentina Di Liscia, Hakim Bishara

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From Shoebox to White Cube: A Roundup of Homemade Pet Museums

With institutions shuttered around the world during the pandemic, a new cultural phenomenon has emerged: pet museums.

Wolfgang Tillmans Gets Artists to Sell $50 Posters for Global Fundraiser

The 2020Solidarity fundraiser features posters by Tillmans and other acclaimed artists like Nicole Eisenman, Betty Tompkins, and David Wojnarowicz.

In Memoriam of the Art World’s Romance With Diversity

A post-coronavirus art world that downsizes and shrinks can not be at the cost of artists and creatives of color.

Arlene Dávila

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This new section is designed to allow us to dive into both timely and timeless topics in a multifaceted way. For this first edition, we’ve chosen the theme “Viral.”

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