French Student Protests Enter Third Week as Hyperallergic Documents Movement in Photos

Key facts

• French students are in the third week of protests against underfunding, poor conditions, and staff shortages in the national education system.
• Hyperallergic published 15 defining photos from the French student protests, including an image by Laurent Demartini of protesters at Place de la République in Paris.
• Amygdala, described as the reigning diva of the L train, staged the six-person drag show Pleasure Dome: Continuum at SoMad in Manhattan.
• Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian called the show a 'vibe manifesto' and noted its urgency amid right-wing attacks on drag and queer creativity.
• Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland proposed a bill calling on the Smithsonian to preserve items related to Trump's 'propagandistic assault on American history.'
• The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT) won this year's European Museum Academy Art Museum Award for social impact.
• Mary Deleary was named director of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
• The UK will replace images of several historical figures on its banknotes with puffins, hedgehogs, and bumblebees.
• Canadian author Anne Carson won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Hyperallergic's second annual Halloween Party and Costume Competition will take place on October 28 at Oberon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.