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Rendered in Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut's Warriors March Toward Belonging
“Warriorhood is an act of living an awakened life,” says Rupy C. Tut, referencing the continual battles that emerge from being a person in the world. Tut has long invoked her family’s history of migration and Punjabi heritage to consider kinship, a theme that has more recently evolved into a recurring warrior character. “The privilege read more
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Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body
Art Review Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness. Magdalena Abakanowicz, “Standing Mutants” (1992–94) (all photos Ela Bittencourt/Hyperallergic) PARIS — “The organicity of the human body we’re born inside of is encoded in us,” the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz once said in an interview. This read more
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AI companies are spending millions to thwart this former tech exec’s congressional bid | TechCrunch
If you’ve seen the recent ads attacking New York assembly member Alex Bores, you’ll know he used to work for Palantir, the AI company that’s powering the controversial raids and high-volume deportation efforts from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ads even accuse Bores of having made hundreds of thousands of dollars building the tech read more
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70 Shows to See in NYC This Spring
New York Newsletter Our guide this season’s blockbuster shows and hidden gems in New York City is out. This is our offering, our paean, our plea to the spirits of spring: Hyperallergic’s long-awaited guide of more than 70 shows to see this season, should it ever deign to arrive. This year, we opted to sort read more
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Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists?
New York City arts leaders are hopeful the new cultural affairs commissioner Diya Vij will tackle the industry’s affordability crisis at a time when the Trump administration slashed federal funding for arts organizations and New York’s artists are increasingly leaving the city due to its high cost of living. “I can’t think of anyone more read more
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Here’s Why Trump Posted About Iran ‘Stealing’ the 2020 Election Hours After the US Attacked
At 2:30 am Eastern time on Saturday, President Donald Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account announcing that the US had joined Israel in launching attacks on Iran. His next post, just two hours later, appeared to suggest that the attacks were, at least in part, motivated by a wild claim that Iran read more
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Watermill Center Names Charles Chemin, Longtime Robert Wilson Collaborator, as Artistic Director
The Watermill Center, the interdisciplinary space in Water Mill, New York, founded by Robert Wilson, has appointed Charles Chemin to the role of artistic director. Chemin will take over the artistic vision of the organization, effectively succeeding Wilson, who selected Chemin for the role prior to his death in August 2025, per a release. Chemin read more
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Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash
DePaul University in Chicago will close its campus art museum on June 30 after projecting a major budget deficit in 2026. The private university’s president, Robert L. Manuel, first announced the looming shutdown of the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) in a letter to students and staff last week, citing ongoing reviews of the school’s “long-term read more
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Anduril aims at $60 billion valuation in new funding round | TechCrunch
Palmer Luckey’s defense-tech company is in the middle of a multibillion-dollar funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The funding round would come less than a year after the company’s Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a $30 billion read more
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Claude Code rolls out a voice mode capability | TechCrunch
Anthropic is bringing Voice Mode to Claude Code, the company’s AI coding assistant for developers. The launch of voice mode marks a significant step toward more hands-free, conversational coding workflows. Thariq Shihipar, an engineer at Anthropic, announced the feature’s gradual release on X on Tuesday. According to Shihipar, voice mode is now live for about read more
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Our Critics Are Split on the Weirdest Whitney Biennial in Recent Memory
The Whitney Biennial is both the most important recurring art exhibition in the US and, often, the most polarizing one. During a year when notions about what does and doesn’t constitute Americanness are the subject of everyday discourse, this survey of American art has now returned for its 82nd edition at the Whitney Museum in read more
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Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora
Art Review An exhibition at NYPL offers a window into life within this paradox where invisibility and visibility are two sides of the same coin. Mahka Eslami, photographs from the Bodega Boys series (2023–24) (all photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) Of all the topics addressed in Niyū Yūrk, a small but significant exhibition at the New York read more
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Android users can now share tracker tag info with airlines to help locate lost luggage | TechCrunch
Google on Tuesday announced a series of new features coming to the Android ecosystem, alongside its March software update for Pixel phones, called the Pixel Drop. Notably, Android users are getting a new way to find lost luggage. If users have added a Find Hub-compatible tracker tag to their luggage, they can now share a read more
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A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals
Google notes that Apple patched vulnerabilities used by Coruna in the latest versions of its mobile operating system, iOS 26, so its exploitation techniques are only confirmed to work against iOS 13 through 17.2.1. It targets vulnerabilities in Apple’s Webkit framework for browsers, so Safari users on those older versions of iOS would be vulnerable, read more
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The new MacBook Pro laptops are as much as $400 more expensive than their predecessors. Thank the RAM shortage. | TechCrunch
Apple unveiled its latest slate of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops on Tuesday morning, and in the case of the MacBook Pro, the new hardware comes with the announcement of new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The specs on the new chips are impressive, featuring an 18-core CPU that Apple says is over read more
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Hacked traffic cams and hijacked TVs: How cyber operations supported the war against Iran | TechCrunch
On Saturday, U.S. and Israeli jets began a bombing campaign against Iran, killing its supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several senior government officials. The attacks also hit military and civilian targets all across the country, including a girls’ school, where at least 168 children and adults were killed. After a few days of conflict, multiple read more
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X says it will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI posts of 'armed conflict' | TechCrunch
X says it’s going to take action against creators who post AI videos of armed conflict without disclosure that the content is AI-generated. On Tuesday, X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, announced that people who use AI technology to mislead others in this way will be booted from the company’s Creator Revenue Sharing Program for read more
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X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS | TechCrunch
Social network X is bringing its private messaging service, dubbed X Chat, to a standalone app. The company on Monday said the initial beta of the X Chat app was being made available to thousands of early adopters through Apple’s TestFlight testing platform. The beta program had reached full capacity two hours after the announcement. read more
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Tehran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Damaged in US-Israel Bombing of Iran
The Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the heart of Tehran, has reportedly been damaged in US-Israeli airstrikes as the military campaign against Iran spirals into a wider regional conflict. According to Iran’s cultural heritage minister, Reza Salehi-Amiri, debris and blast shockwaves from a strike near Arag Square in southern Tehran damaged the read more
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Activist investor Elliott takes a $1B stake in Pinterest, betting on AI-driven growth | TechCrunch
Elliott Investment Management, an activist investor known for its assertive involvement in company decisions, has taken a $1 billion stake in Pinterest. The firm first invested in the social platform in 2022. Pinterest announced the financial boost on Tuesday, and CEO Bill Ready said he considers this a major vote of confidence that underscores the read more
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