Savneet Talwar, Anna Boghiguian, Iris van Herpen
Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara reflects on everyday encounters in Brooklyn and major news items, including the August 4 anniversary of the 2020 Beirut port blast and a photobook by Hans Wilschut titled "Beirut, Epi-Centre Ville" documenting its aftermath. The article highlights Hyperallergic’s reporting on drawings made by immigrant children held in ICE detention facilities and notes community efforts to reinstate SAIC professor Savneet Talwar after she was placed on leave for an assignment asking students to imagine treatment for a pro-Palestinian protester. It also previews Ed Simon’s essay criticizing AI companies, including Anthropic, for buying, digitizing, and then pulping out-of-print books to train large language models, contrasting this with the 1553 execution of theologian Michael Servetus and the survival of three copies of his book "The Restoration of Christianity" (one held by the University of Edinburgh library). The piece additionally mentions Swann Auction Galleries’ upcoming 7th LGBTQ+ Art Material Culture & History auction, listing artists such as Tom of Finland, Hugh Steers, Lorenza Böttner, Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol.
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This story was covered in Threads of Power, Sculpting New Mythologies