Trump's Clash of Civilizations
In a Hyperallergic roundup titled “Trump’s Clash of Civilizations,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara frames the issue around recent threats by the US president to annihilate Iran’s “whole civilization,” noting the rhetoric’s potential cultural damage. The edition highlights essays on Salvador Dalí’s “Nuclear Mysticism” (Ed Simon) and Jasper Johns’s career (John Yau), plus coverage including a rebuttal by Aruna D’Souza to an essay by artist Josh Kline and an interview by Rhea Nayyar with Hilma’s Ghost. It also reports that Melissa Chiu will leave the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum after 12 years to become director of the Guggenheim Museum in September, and promotes a virtual conversation scheduled for Wednesday 3–4pm ET with photographer Tonika Lewis Johnson—winner of a 2025 MacArthur “Genius Grant”—and senior editor Valentina Di Liscia. Additional news items include a Paul Klee late-work exhibition at the Jewish Museum running through July 26, 2026, and a chance to see Albrecht Dürer’s “Triumphal Arch” at the New York Public Library before it goes into storage in fall.
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