Lene Vollhardt
lenevollhard.bsky.social
Lene Vollhardt
@lenevollhard.bsky.social
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The British Museum has launched a long-term loans program that sent 80 Greek and Egyptian antiquities to India in “a rebranding exercise that preserves colonial power structures while pretending to dismantle them,” writes Emiline Smith.
British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program
Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities.
hyperallergic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Looking to apply to grad school? We’ve organized a list of arts-related MFA, MA, and PhD programs to explore and apply to before their deadlines early next year!
MFA, MA, and PhD Programs to Apply for by Early 2026
A list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close.
hyperallergic.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Filmmaker Ufuoma Essi’s “Half Memory” takes Toni Morrison’s concept of “rememory” — repressed memories returning via a living force — as a jumping-off point for an exploration of individual and collective memory and history.
The Black Feminist Subconscious of Ufuoma Essi’s Films
Two works on view at MoMA attest to the artist's great skill: articulating her focus on marginalized histories through aesthetic and sensory means.
hyperallergic.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress” isn't very good, but nevertheless, this heavy-handed representation of Manifest Destiny has found its way onto the Department of Homeland Security's social media pages under the caption “A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending.”
Homeland Security’s Genocidal Aesthetics
By posting paintings like “American Progress,” the DHS signals its white supremacist beliefs.
hyperallergic.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step – my latest op-ed @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein
The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight, says Hanno Hauenstein, a Berlin-based journalist
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Art was the language of life and love for art critic John Berger and his youngest son, the artist Yves Berger.
A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son
“Over to You” is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.
hyperallergic.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
love to wake up to this mention of the sphere by the wonderful Ruth Catlow 💕

From "Artists, Activists and worldbuilders on decentralized autonomous organisations", Inte Goerich, 2025

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February 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM