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Michelle Agins on Perseverance and Photographing Martin
At the age of about ten years old, photographer Michelle Agins stood with her grandmother in the South Side of Chicago waiting for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to come to her neighborhood. Wearing her grandfather’s cap with handwritten a sign
US Researchers Confirm 98% of Cultural Armenian Heritage
A yearlong investigation by a team of scholars affiliated with Cornell and Purdue universities has documented a pattern of deliberate obliteration of Armenian cultural heritage in Nakhichevan, a historically Armenian region that became part of Azerbaijan following the Sovietization of the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan between 1920 and 1921. The new report by the Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) identified
Hyperallergic’s Journalism Fellowship for Curators
With the support of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, we’re pleased to announce this
Artist Adopted by Dakota Family Resigns From Project Amid
A young Dakota-speaking artist who won a prestigious commission to design public art in downtown Minneapolis resigned from the project following controversy within the city’s Native community, culminating in a formal complaint that alleged he had practiced cultural appropriation filed in April. Inkpa Mani, the artist at the center of the dispute, insists that his engagement with Dakota culture and
Atlanta Brewing Company moving to Underground later this
Underground Atlanta owner Lalani Ventures has announced that Georgia’s first craft brewery, Atlanta Brewing Company, will relocate to the Downtown district later this year.
Atlanta Brewing Company will transform the old Atlanta Visitors Center on Upper Alabama Street into an activated
‘New Day’ Mural Unveiled at Bethesda Parking Garage
The Woodmont Corner public parking garage in Downtown Bethesda has a new look.
New Day, a mural on the Old Georgetown Road side of the garage, was unveiled Tuesday morning at a ceremony featuring local leaders and the artist himself, The Jah One, a Montgomery County resident.
New mural called New Day by local artist The Jah One unveiled at
$100,000 in grants go to 10 Atlanta arts groups in a mix of
“This model allows cities like Atlanta to harness and amplify the creativity unique to their own communities,” he says. “I have seen this model foster local pride over and over again.”
In a time of often fluctuating support for the arts, the challenge says Fredalyn M. Frasier, the project director for planning and urban design for Central Atlanta Progress and