USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Reflecting on the Complicated and Painful History of Anti-LGBTQ Violence in the US

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From: Hyperallergic <hello@hyperallergic.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM
Subject: Reflecting on the Complicated and Painful History of Anti-LGBTQ Violence in the US
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June 16, 2016 Reflecting on the Complicated and Painful History of Anti-LGBTQ Violence in the US by Hrag Vartanian I'll never forget the day I wandered into Skylar Fein's "Remember the UpStairs Lounge" (2008) at the Prospect.1 biennial in New Orleans. Read More → Israeli Artist Wants His Historic Knesset Sculpture Removed in Protest TEL AVIV-JAFFA — Israeli artist Dani Karavan, known for his site-specific sculptures in Israel and Europe, requested on Wednesday that the relief on the wall of the Knesset Plenum Hall that he completed in 1966 be taken down in light of the Israeli government's conduct. Read More → Ancient Roman Waxed Writing Tablets Unearthed in Central London IOUs, a note to a brewer, and the earliest handwritten document known from Britain — these are among the 405, nearly 2,000-year-old Roman waxed writing tablets archaeologists have unearthed and deciphered over years of excavations at Bloomberg's forthcoming headquarters in London. Read More → Sponsor Advertise with Nectar Ads Deconstructing African American Identity into Axioms, Photos, and Colors LONDON — Two things are true: Martine Syms likes both purple and words. As with her website and her publishing imprint Dominica, Syms's exhibition Fact & Trouble at the Institute of Contemporary Arts is awash in the color purple: Royal purple C-stands, royal purple television monitors, and royal purple exhibition text. Read More → Upgrading a Traditional Javanese Instrument to Run on an Algorithm HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — We are a technology-obsessed culture. Read More → What Should We Do with New York's Most Neglected World's Fair Relic? What will become of the derelict New York State Pavilion, a rusted Space Age relic of the 1964 World's Fair? Read More → Ancient Oracle to Apollo Discovered Near the Acropolis "Come to me, O Paean, and bring with you the true oracle," reads the inscriptions in an oracle well used to communicate with the Olympian god Apollo that was recently discovered in Athens. Read More → Artist Suing Damien Hirst Over Charm Bracelets Needs to Take a Chill Pill In a suit that shows people will sue over just about anything, a Canadian artist is accusing Damien Hirst of copyright infringement — because a series of his bracelets features similar pill-shaped charms as hers. Read More → Literary Paintings Inspired by a Fictional Poet A freshman psych professor once described an experiment to my class wherein male turkeys were presented with realistic models of female turkeys, which the male turkeys promptly attempted to mate with. Read More → Letting Go of the Distinction Between Figuration and Abstraction LOS ANGELES — A Shape That Stands Up at Art + Practice (A+P) gallery, in partnership with the Hammer Museum, claims to "[examine] the space between figuration and abstraction" — a great starting point unless you have the sneaking suspicion that this space disappeared decades ago. Read More → You received this email because you subscribed on hyperallergic.com. View this email in your browser Prefer a Weekly Newsletter? Update subscription | Unsubscribe Hyperallergic 181 North 11th Street, Suite 302 Brooklyn, NY 11211

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