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Pigeons are disappearing from Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, and one artist says she knows why. New York fixture Tina Piña Trachtenburg — better known as “Mother Pigeon” for her signature feathered gowns — paced back ....
Brazilian photojournalist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado died at the age of 81 in Paris on Friday, May 23, as confirmed by his and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado’s reforestation nonprofit Instituto Terra. Having traveled to ....
A group of protesters staged a demonstration in the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art last Friday evening, May 23, targeting board members “tied to genocide, militarism, and apartheid” and accusing the museum ....
Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our environments from a different perspective: creative reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and re-envisioning architecture as ....
A bronze statue at Pompeii’s Temple of Apollo, with Mount Vesuvius visible in the background (photo by Graham O’Keeffe via Flickr)In February of 2021, German-born archaeologist Gabriel Zuchtriegel was named as the Pompeii Archaeological Park’s ....
ST. LOUIS — American car culture has long seemed synonymous with a particular make of men: showy, and yet unsure that they have something to show, as likely to ogle a woman’s figure as they are ....
I first saw Xingzi Gu’s vaporous paintings of adolescents on the brink of adulthood at the artist’s MFA show at New York University. The child of artists living and working in Nanjing, Gu left China ....
Pope Leo XIV invoked Vincent van Gogh’s “Sower at Sunset” (1888) in his first general audience on Wednesday, May 21, using the painting to illustrate his reflections on the biblical Parable of the Sower. The ....
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O‘AHU and HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawai‘i — Since mid-February, Honolulu’s city hall has hosted Meleanna Aluli Meyer’s “‘Umeke Lā‘au: Culture Medicine.” The sculpture, which enlarges the curving form of a calabash to room-sized proportions, holds its ....
Art Basel announced this week that it will host a new fair in the Qatari capital city of Doha, partnering with the state-operated Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and creative and hospitality agency QC+. The forthcoming ....
There’s a tendency when it comes to MFA shows to apply a different set of standards — it’s good “for student work”; it’s a showcase for burgeoning talent that’ll be fit for the galleries with a ....
Several dozen New York City arts and culture advocates — including unionized museum workers, public school educators, community nonprofit leaders, visual artists, theater performers, and musicians — rallied in the rain outside City Hall in ....
Over 1,000 faculty members at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan are officially unionized as of Thursday, May 22, after a two-thirds majority vote in favor. Organizing under United Auto Workers (UAW), the ....
LOS ANGELES — The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, has laid off 14% of its full-time staff — 15 employees — as well ....
This morning, May 21, a chorus of boos directed at Columbia University’s Acting President Claire Shipman resonated through the crowd of thousands at the school’s official commencement. It was a marked contrast from the scene ....
In Jāḷī—Meshes of Resistance, nine embroidered textiles bear photographs of women who gaze out at the viewer and one another. Details sing and delight: folded hands resting on a patchwork of flowers, a dupatta threaded ....
The artists we’re highlighting this week have diverse practices, ranging from the earthy, unglazed ceramics of Stanley Rosen to the complex, multicolored tapestries of Kenny Nguyen to the embroidered textile-photographs of Spandita Malik, but all ....
Archaeologists in Australia have identified a new Aboriginal rock art style in the country’s western territory that dates back to the mid-to-late Holocene age, around 7,000 to 5,000 years ago. In a study published by the ....
“No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance,” a piece by artists Noel Maghathe, Fadl Fakhouri, and Fargo Tbakhi about Palestinian mourning, was scheduled to take place Wednesday evening, May 14, as part of ....
Michelle Cawthorn, a work from the Anni’s Birds series (2025) (all images courtesy the artists)BETHANY, Connecticut — Shortly after I met Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn, Australian artists who had been awarded a two-month residency ....
HUNDERMAN, India — When I first arrived in Hunderman, a village near Kargil in India-controlled Kashmir, in March, I was struck by its stillness. The 500-year-old settlement’s residents believe it predates the Mughal and British ....
Amy Werntz, “Carlyla” (2024), oil on panel (all images courtesy The Bennett Prize unless otherwise noted)Painter Amy Werntz of Dallas, Texas, has been named winner of the 2025 Bennett Prize. In her work, she strives ....
LOS ANGELES — Books offer the contradictions of intimacy and communal experience. They represent the specific characteristics of the people and places that created them, but can be easily and affordably shared with a global ....
It is a photograph etched into the visual canon of the first “television war”: a group of children flee a napalm attack near the town of Trảng Bàng, including a naked nine-year-old girl who charges ....
A slew of politicians, government officials, and public figures rubbed shoulders at the British Museum in London earlier this week for a private ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the creation of the State ....
Art critic Aruna D’Souza renounced her degrees from New York University today, Thursday, May 15, after the institution condemned a graduating student’s pro-Palestine commencement speech and said it would pursue disciplinary action against him.In remarks ....
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s criticized plan to “beautify” parts of Chinatown is moving forward as the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) begins to search for artists for the project.DCLA issued a Request for ....
A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed double-pedestal lamp became the most valuable piece by the famed American architect to sell at auction when it fetched $7.5 million at Sotheby’s modern art evening sale last night, May 13. ....
British sculptor Thomas J. Price’s 12-foot-tall bronze statue “Grounded in the Stars” (2023), which monumentalizes a casually dressed Black woman with her hands on her hips, has sparked immense online discussion since it was installed ....
The stress of 2025 is no doubt taking a physical toll — so it’s timely that New York University’s MFA cohort is reckoning with their bodies in the second part of their senior thesis show. This ....
Thomas J Price’s “Grounded in the Stars” (2023) in New York City’s Times Square (photo Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic)Black portraiture is on a timer. Every few years, institutions rush to fill their collections with Black faces, signaling ....
In a room thick with memory, there is a thing — that’s the closest word I have for it — irradiated by late afternoon light. Before your eyes, it toggles between meaning and pointlessness, resembling, by ....
This week I’m reminded of the breadth of world cultures and the long shadow of human history, with art exhibitions that span the local and global, past and present. While artists at the Bronx Museum ....
With more than a dozen fairs occurring simultaneously this week and next, New York’s spring art season can be dizzying. But across the Brooklyn Bridge, away from the perhaps buzzier Manhattan shows, a more intimate ....
Book cover of Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (2025), written and illustrated by Craig Thompson (all images courtesy Pantheon Graphic Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House)Twenty years ago, Craig Thompson captivated readers with Blankets (2003) ....
My first stop at the Independent Art Fair was the rooftop bar: I wanted to catch my breath, enjoy the view, eavesdrop a little. I was immediately rewarded (though not with a drink — if ....
Tuning out the din of fad-hunting throughout Frieze Week, a New York exhibition re-awakens a late feminist sculptor’s embodiments of human migration — both primordial and present. Mary Ann Unger, who died in 1998 at age ....
“I was friends with a porn star when I moved back to Los Angeles, and we spent a very depressing Christmas together,” Massoud Hayoun, an investigative reporter turned painter, told me steps from the entrance ....
The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) fair’s reputation for being at the top of the luxury spectrum lent it the air of a frenzied spring shopping spree on Thursday afternoon in New York City. Underneath ....
I gasped when I saw them: a pair of hermit crabs, poking out of resin-printed sculptures resembling a daisy and a gaping toad. I had been walking around the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) fair ....
“Oh, I looove her!” I hear a woman in a striped suit gush about Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens, whose large glass piece “Pinky Sunset R” (2021) is currently on view at Esther Schipper gallery’s ....
“It all started with my band breaking up,” artist Taraka Larson began. We’re sitting on a marble-patterned bedspread draped over a blow-up mattress placed on faux grass mats at New York’s Spring Break Art Show. ....
Meanwhile, at the Vatican (via Bluesky, all screenshots Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic)As Hyperallergic’s resident adult Catholic convert, I am obliged to bring you my insight on the papal conclave unfolding before our eyes via screens big and ....
At Hyperallergic, we take pride in covering protesting museum workers who take to the streets. But few realize that these workers are taking part in a practice that’s as old as some of the ancient ....
I’ve covered the Met Gala from a meme standpoint in years past, and I intended on doing so this year as well — except … Where are the memes?The morning-after meme frenzy has followed the ....
With the Frick finally back at its original home on Fifth Avenue, test your knowledge of the artists and works in its opulent collection, from the painter behind “The Night Watch” to the pioneering Italian ....
There’s so much to stimulate the eye and mind in museums and galleries this week that it’s a joy to behold. I spent way too much time marveling at 1970s notebook sketches by graffiti artists ....
TELLURIDE, Colorado — “I’m the last of the Mohicans,” ruminates David Cassirer from the dining room of his modest frontier-style house in the mountains. David is the last surviving heir of the Nazi-looted Camille Pissarro ....
Millions of tourists visit the ancient site of Pompeii each year to explore enchanting frescoes, opulent villas, and a seemingly frozen snapshot of a prosperous Roman town. But how did Pompeii come to reach such ....
Parsons Festival is an annual event series that showcases the creative and intellectual achievements of Parsons School of Design’s graduating students — a diverse and talented group of artists, designers, architects, photographers, filmmakers, technologists, scholars, ....
Mayday! Mayday!From coast to coast, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded streets across the United States to commemorate May Day, also known as International Workers Day, annually observed on the first of the month around ....
As Trump threatens to eliminate government-funded arts and culture agencies in a newly released budget proposal, a federal judge has temporarily halted the administration’s efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) ....
Dara Birnbaum, a pioneer of the feminist and video art movements who probed, mimicked, and remixed mass media, died today, May 2, at age 78. The news of her death was announced by Marian Goodman ....
We can interpret the phrase “may day” in two ways: First, as the ancient May Day festival in Europe, which marks the approximate halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice; and second, ....
This month’s picks are about art’s ability to tell stories, and how those stories can reveal larger collective narratives. At Nazarian / Curcio, Widline Cadet reflects on her family’s immigration from Haiti through photo-based works. ....
The Siren is back! We have dedicated issue #2 to a satirical reflection on the first 100 days of MAGA: malicious mass firings, big-headed Broligarchs, despicable deportations, dodgy DOGE, and the whacked-out attacks at so-called ....
Even the figures in Katsukawa Shunchō’s 1789 woodblock print only buy from independent bookstores! (image public domain via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic)Flipping through a volume with a bit of sand in ....
Italian police have seized eight helicopters and are investigating four pilots associated with a company offering aerial tours of Pompeii’s archaeological ruins last week, alleging a laundry list of safety and operations violations. Citing concerns ....
A 1,800-year-old, life-sized Greco-Roman statue looted nearly six decades ago from present-day Turkey has gone on its final display at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). Following more than a year of legal battles, the ....
As its title suggest, arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified: Chapter Eight is two things at once: a group exhibition featuring longtime ....
From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there’s a lot of variety in our list this week. While our critics are enjoying historical shows focused on labor in the United States and women’s workaday ....
LOS ANGELES — “Speak boldly!” says musician and composer Julius Eastman in the 1981 prelude to his musical composition, “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc.” In REDCAT’s newest exhibition, World of Echo: Julius Eastman and Arthur ....
What is color? The answer to that question is often that it’s subjective. But such vagueness can somehow still leave intact pale, male, and stale color theories of the past as the default. A gem ....
What struck me first about this year’s Photography Show, running through April 27 at the Park Avenue Armory, was the near-total absence of traditional photojournalism. Without the deluge of protest imagery or the urgency of ....
Painter and printmaker Tony Bechara, whose passionate support for artists helped mold New York City’s cultural landscape, died at his home on Wednesday, April 23, on his 83rd birthday. The news of his death was ....
I only just learned about this, but International Crab Day is tomorrow, April 26, so there’s no better time to put some respect on the Crab Museum in Margate for its unwavering public support for ....
CHICAGO — Walking through an art fair can feel like swimming in the middle of Lake Michigan — there’s a fine line between floating through art and drowning in it. After all, these shows aren’t ....
‣ One museum in New Mexico is grappling with historical photos of the Navajo Nation, reframing them in the context of colonial photography and bringing in the voices of Diné people. Jordan Eddy writes about ....
After slashing critical grant programs for cultural institutions and placing the majority of its staff on leave, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is now seeking artist submissions for statues to include in President ....
An enormous sculpture by Nick Cave is joining a growing collection of outdoor works at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Scheduled for an October unveiling, Cave’s cast-bronze “Amalgam (Origin)” ....
Celestial motifs and cosmological geometries strewn across a prismatic landscape comprise “Abstract Futures” (2025), the newest public artwork to grace the walls of the New York City subway system. Designed by the feminist art collective ....
The most representative photograph of Pope Francis — then just Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina — captures him sitting on a simple, slatted wooden bench on the subway in his native city. An ....
In 1971, a seven-year-old Sandra Fabara moved with her family from a city nestled in an Ecuadorian rainforest to the dense brick landscape of Brooklyn. By the time she was a teenager, she had gone ....
If one theme stands out in this week’s list, it’s the presence of strong, talented women. With Patty Chang, Myrlande Contant, and Amy Sherald all featured in solo exhibitions, it’s a great moment to consider ....
On February 26, the Washington Post reported that the Organization of American States (OAS) had canceled two major exhibitions at the Art Museum of the Americas, which is funded by the OAS. Founded in 1948, ....
Western design has long obeyed the dicta of fin de siècle and early 20th-century Berlin and Paris — that ornament is crime, that form follows function, that clarity trumps complexity. Non-European traditions, however, weren’t peripheral ....
SAN FRANCISCO — Time folds unto itself and reflects historical and contemporary moments that have shaped society in Isaac Julien’s I Dream a World, the British artist’s first comprehensive museum survey, and his first retrospective ....
On Friday, April 18, Pratt Manhattan Gallery will open two new photography exhibitions: Black | Box by Dona Ann McAdams, which combines black and white photography with text to encapsulate late 20th century American life, ....
Suellen Rocca was one of the original six artists who comprised the Hairy Who. The Chicago artist group exhibited three times in the city between 1966 and ’68, then, in 1969, Walter Hopps curated the ....
The early-blooming daffodils may bow their trumpets in defeat amid the frosty trickery following Fool’s Spring, but no amount of rain and dreary weather can thwart the annual blossoming of New York City’s spring art ....
America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made a significant impact on the cultural landscape of the United ....
‣ For Studio International, writer and curator Yasmeen Siddiqui excavates the layered political dimensions of the work of artist Lee Bul, whose headless sculptures are currently standing sentinel outside The Met:In the 1990s, Lee began ....
A portrait of Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both of his arms in an Israeli attack in Gaza, won the World Press Photo of the Year award. (© Samar Abu Elouf for the New York Times, ....
Chants of “Guggenheim’s cheap!” “New York is a union town!” and “Up with the union, down with the layoffs!” reverberated down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side this evening, April 16, as more than ....
After a heated bidding battle that went on for a record-breaking 95 minutes, a 700-year-old handscroll fetched over $32 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong last Thursday, April 10, considerably surpassing presale estimates that had projected ....
CINCINNATI and CLEVELAND — Last year, Shahzia Sikander created a trio of complementary works for her traveling career survey Collective Behavior, currently at the Cincinnati Art Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art. “Gendered Currents: Gopi ....
As a small-scale painter, I’ve been interested in meticulous manicures since 2005, when my mom presented me with the holy text — Klutz’s Nail Art tutorial book with six peel-off nail polishes. Twenty years later, ....
In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Lord Henry, upon meeting the novel’s namesake character, exclaims, “You are too charming to go in for philanthropy, Mr. Gray — far too charming.” That ....
If art both reflects and critique the world around us, there’s more than enough to say at the moment — and plenty of art that can provide some insight. While artists like Aaron Gilbert and ....
The title of Judith Linhares’s current exhibition at PPOW Gallery, The river is moving, The blackbird must be flying, consists of the 12th stanza of Wallace Stevens’s poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” ....
In 1988, photojournalist and photo editor Aline Manoukian captured an image of a Palestinian militiaman holding a white kitten in Lebanon’s Burj Al Barajneh refugee camp. That photo would go on to circulate for decades, ....
Left to right: Kimberli Gant (photo Andar Sawyer), Candice Hopkins (photo Johnny Fogg), Caroline Ellen Liou (photo Emanuel Hahn), Hrag Vartanian (photo Kevin J. Miyazaki) Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on April 29, ....
On April 26 and 27, the Other Islands Book Fair returns to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus, bringing together over 40 independent publishers in a two-day event to engage in dialogue centered on making, cultural production, and ....
Staff members at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio are unionizing after 86% of workers voted in favor on Wednesday, April 9. The effort comes amid the museum’s ongoing, multi-year collection reinstallation effort ....
A video posted by the White House on April 11, 2025 appears to show a painting of Trump hanging in place of Obama’s portrait. (screenshot Hyperallergic via X)A new painting of Donald Trump depicting the ....
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) holds what is arguably the most important collection of early graffiti art and ephemera, amassed by Martin Wong, a queer Chinese-American self-taught painter who wore cowboy ....
‣ Identifying the color of your aura is trending, thanks to an ill-conceived TikTok filter. But for Believer, photographer Adalena Kavanagh visits a shop in Manhattan’s Chinatown for insights into aura readings and what they ....
LONDON — “The body as a battleground — that applies to everyone,” writes Galli. This statement, quoted in the exhibition text for the solo exhibition So, So, So at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, is indicative ....
Art critic, educator, and photographer Max Kozloff died at the age of 91 on Sunday, April 6. He passed away at his home in New York City after living with Parkinson’s disease for over a ....
Public auction sales fell 25% in 2024 amid a broader decline in the global art market last year, according to the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report published Tuesday morning, April 8. The annual ....
An international student enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence has had their visa terminated, as confirmed in a public letter to the campus community from RISD President Crystal Williams on ....
WASHINGTON, DC — Tiny ballet flats, palm-sized flip flops, velcro-strap sneakers with Frozen movie character illustrations. Approximately 17,000 pairs of children’s shoes lined Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday, March 5, in a memorial for Palestinian children killed ....
Is it hot in here, or is it just these protest signs?From New York City to Washington, DC, from Los Angeles to Boston, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets this Saturday, April ....
It is not until the acknowledgments at the back of Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum, with sections titled “The Allure,” “Romance,” and “Be Mine,” that author ....
Mary Cassatt, “Family Group Reading” (1898) at the Legion of Honor’s Mary Cassatt at Work, January 2025 (photo Lakshmi Rivera Amin/Hyperallergic)It feels both eerie and stabilizing to read Octavia E. Butler’s books in the year ....
We’re all partial to a cool rock. I’ve certainly amassed a collection of some neat stones from driveways and beaches in my 27 years. But are they art? If so … Is nature the artist? ....
Applications for the 2026 Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion & Culture and Fashion & Design are now open to immigrants under the age of 38. The Vilcek Foundation will award six $50,000 ....
More than 1,800 academics, including art historians and art professors, have committed to boycotting Columbia University in a March 26 open letter denouncing the school’s agreement to comply with Trump administration crackdowns on pro-Palestinian dissent. By ....
Ahead of next week’s grant application deadline for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), organizations are in limbo following a new court ruling that does not prevent the federal agency from incorporating Trump’s anti-trans ....
Following the seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs from an art exhibition in Texas in January, the state’s museums could face new penalties if the attorney general finds them to contain “certain obscene or harmful material” ....
A paid undergraduate internship to train the next generation of museum professionals. A program to educate collections care professionals on climate resilience. Archaeological research at two former Native American boarding school sites.These are just some ....
Janiva Ellis, “Untitled” (2023–24) (image courtesy the artist and 47 Canal) Artist Janiva Ellis, whose work is on view at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, has withdrawn from a scheduled talk ....
Karachi-based artist Amin Gulgee’s three-decade-long oeuvre spans metal sculptures, bold performance art, and collaborative curation. A well-structured new volume on his work, titled Amin Gulgee: No Man’s Land and edited by John McCarry, is neither ....
America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made a significant impact on the cultural landscape of the United ....
The exhibitions below ask viewers to engage their senses and spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself. That may means noticing details you’d otherwise miss, in the work of Madalena Santos Reinbolt and ....
In an interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, Met Gala co-chair Anna Wintour announced “Fasc-isms” as the theme for this year’s highly anticipated event.“The popular 20th-century movement has been reduced to stereotypes and this is ....
LONDON — When the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan ascended to power in 1628, he inscribed a suitably inspirational verse into the panels of his palace to convey the wealth and artistic splendor of the empire he ....
Deborah-Joyce Holman’s “Close-Up” (2024), currently on view at the Swiss Institute, aestheticizes a Black woman’s mundane domestic activities in a moving image work that taps into the power of the quotidian. Aside from the wall-sized ....
This month, we recommend shows by several artists who provide singular, visionary, and radical ways of viewing the world — and imagining new ones. Madam X’s enigmatic diagrams on view at the Philosophical Research Society ....
Deborah R. Grayson never expected to find her way back to printmaking.“I was actually a painter until the pandemic. Then I couldn’t get into my studio. All I had were tools and wood at my ....
A Gustav Klimt portrait of a West African prince, long hidden away in a private collection, was displayed for the first time in nearly a century at last week’s European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, ....
Celia Paul is “a person in love with the romance of that which can never be,” or so says critic Hilton Als in a new monograph of her work. That sense of nostalgia permeates the ....
A portrait of Donald Trump that has hung in the Colorado Capitol Rotunda since 2019 was removed by state legislators after the president lambasted the work on Sunday, March 23.The president wrote on his social ....
Monash University in Melbourne has “indefinitely postponed” an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi one month after Australia rescinded his 2026 Venice Biennale appointment. Sabsabi made headlines in early February when the ....
In 2021, when the Frick Collection temporarily took over the Brutalist Breuer building that was once home to the Whitney Museum of American Art and a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was ....
When Iris Moon, curator of European Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was asked if she wanted an audio guide to accompany the exhibition Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, she hesitated. ....
As March comes to a close, New York City ushers in Print Week with the 34th edition of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair at the Park Avenue Armory and the Brooklyn Fine Art Print ....
The Brooklyn Museum is pausing the planned layoffs of nearly 50 workers after the City of New York confirmed an additional $100,000 in funding for the 2025 fiscal year and 27 staff members accepted voluntary ....
Artist Nona Faustine, whose self-portraits memorialized under-recognized narratives and fearlessly confronted violent histories, died on Thursday morning, March 20, at the age of 48 in New York City. The news of her passing was confirmed ....
Catherine Murphy is one of a handful of artists who changed observational painting between the 1960s and ’80s, when painting’s dominance was being contested. Murphy, along with Lois Dodd, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and others, learned ....
MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — Luxury, legacy, and a touch of subversion — the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) returned to the MECC convention center in the Netherlands this week with an extraordinary selection of museum-quality ....
As of today, my Roth Contributory IRA balance stands at $3,372.30. Being that I’m 23, that number is not an astonishingly low figure, but it isn’t particularly impressive either, and no, I do not have ....
After ordering the effective dismantlement of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) last week, President Donald Trump has sworn in a new director for the agency who has pledged to “restore focus on ....
TOKYO — At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a standing-room-only crowd watches the unfolding of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani’s “TIME TIME” (2024). The shadow of a woman playing a shō, a classical Japanese reed ....
Gert and Uwe Tobia, “Untitled” (2012-13), lithograph with hand-coloring (© 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, courtesy The New York Public Library)From Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt to Kiki Smith and ....
In the catalog announcing the late painter Dorothy Hood’s solo debut in Mexico City in 1943, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda describes her art as driven by inbuilt contradictions, tracing in it both a “savage silence” ....
Fred Eversley, who fused art and science to create captivating parabolic sculptures, died on March 14 at the age of 83. A spokesperson for David Kordansky Gallery, which has represented the artist since 2018, told ....
Women contributed more extensively to Medieval manuscript production — a task usually delegated to monks — than previously thought, according to a new study. At least 110,000 hand-written manuscripts produced in Latin Roman Catholic Europe between ....
In a new interview with Hyperallergic, Erik af Klint, board chair of the Hilma af Klint Foundation and the artist’s great-grandnephew, doubled down on his stance that the late Swedish artist’s body of work should ....
BERLIN — It’s become clichéd to say that music unites us, but Silvina Der-Meguerditchian turns this truism into a nuanced and polyphonic exhibition with Those who take care of us. At Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, the Armenian-Argentinian ....
This is a week of big statements by artists and expanded possibilities by curators and gallerists, past and present. If you haven’t already made the trip to Pioneer Works in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood to ....
After Jay Hollenburger and Arthur Slaughter met at Rice University in the early 1960s, the young couple commemorated their relationship with a steel red-and-blue sign intertwining their first initials. The piece was on prominent display ....
I have never taken an art history course, unless you count two COVID-impacted Zoom classes. Particularly given the weight of everything I don’t know, engaging with ancient art can be a fraught task. It’s rife ....
Nick Cave has long been a flag-bearer of maximalism even as the art world tended toward minimalism. His Soundsuit sculptures, for which he’s best known, were born out of the 1990s, when issues of identity ....
LOS ANGELES — “Witness” is a bronze cast of the bottom half of Kelly Akashi’s face. The surface of the sculpture (from 2024–25) has an irregular patina that is unexpectedly beautiful. It was one of ....
The trail of staff cuts trickling throughout cultural institutions in the United States appears to continue across the pond, as the Tate museums in the United Kingdom are trimming 7% of its workforce to address ....
MIAMI — A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease and the loss of $80,000 in grant money promised by the city after refusing to cancel screenings of the ....
This month, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) received the largest corporate donation it’s ever gotten for a single exhibition.SFMOMA announced on March 5 that it would host the first major posthumous retrospective of ....
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American and second woman to hold the agency’s highest-ranking post, has stepped down from the role “at the direction of President Trump,” ....
Raymond Pettibon with David Larsen, “Untitled (Joan had been…)” (mid-1990s), linocut (all images courtesy Getty Research Institute)LOS ANGELES — The Getty announced this week that it has acquired the archive of Raymond Pettibon, whose career ....
The Grand Penn Community Alliance (GPCA) presented its proposal for renovating Penn Station at the New York Historical on Tuesday, March 11, outlining a return to the original transit hub’s pre-demolition Beaux Arts glory and ....
SINGAPORE — Since the early 2000s, Pratchaya Phinthong has cast doubt on the moral hierarchy of our political and economic value systems. Across his oeuvre, neatly arrayed Swedish Kroner literalize the wages (or worth?) of Thai ....
Widespread cuts to the federal workforce under President Trump may leave the General Services Administration’s (GSA) massive collection of public artwork in a state of purgatory. As reported by the Washington Post, expected cuts to ....
“They’ve been had! The Monuments Men were had!” exclaims Emmanuelle Polack, the art historian in charge of World War II provenance inquiries at the Louvre, in Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art ....
An ongoing exhibition at the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, brings seven of Michelangelo’s few surviving sketches to light in the United States for the first time. Through ....
I first visited Norman Bluhm’s studio in the late 1970s. There, I saw art spanning 30 years, from the late 1940s, when he lived in Paris on the GI Bill and briefly shared a studio ....
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — At the center of Daisy Patton’s Before These Witnesses hangs a double swing festooned with fabric flowers. Fashioned from a decrepit sofa the artist found on Craigslist, it frames vintage ....
I have this vague, flickering memory of neon orange billowing impossibly through threadbare trees like the penumbric trails of large, unseasonal fireflies. I would’ve been seven years old when the late Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed ....
We’re hosting a virtual town hall meeting for Hyperallergic Members on March 19 at 6pm (EDT). We loved connecting with so many of you at our last town hall in November and are looking forward to ....
Largely derided as the pinnacle of feminine vanity and frivolity, the imported porcelain fever of early 18th-century Europe laid the framework for Chinoiserie, a Western imitation and interpretation of Chinese culture and aesthetics in manufactured ....
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, has come under scrutiny after the institution laid off 13 employees and reorganized staff to effectively remove union positions. Buffalo AKG Workers United, the union representing ....
The Corning Museum of Glass selected New Zealand-based artist Te Rongo Kirkwood as the winner of the 38th Rakow Commission. Kirkwood is known for her vibrant and evocative works of kiln-formed glass that explore themes ....
Absurd edits of Vice President JD Vance have ballooned across social media in the week following the disastrous televised meeting between him, President Trump, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Oval Office last Friday, ....
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for requiring grant applicants to abstain from using federal funds to “promote gender ideology” in what may be the first ....
For over three decades, textile artist Myrlande Constant has depicted scenes from Haitian history, religion, and daily life through the large-scale, labor-intensive beaded embroidery of traditional Vodou flags. Now, her work will join the permanent ....
Each year, Museum of the Moving Image presents First Look, its festival of new and innovative international cinema, with a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings and sessions, and fresh perspectives on ....
After the recent frenzy of Art Week here in Los Angeles, this month’s selections focus on community and collaboration, tracing historical and personal networks of connection. Wael Shawky’s film Drama 1882 is a stylized opera ....
David Salle, “Untitled” (2024), collage on panel with hand finishing, 65 1/2 x 44 inches, each (© David Salle, courtesy Pace Prints)From March 27–30, the IFPDA Print Fair will gather more than 70 exhibitors at ....
A gilded brass reliquary bust of a martyred female saint (Southern Germany or Switzerland, c. 1500), brass with gilding and polychrome, at Luhring Augustine gallery in Manhattan (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)A good two-person show can bring ....
Affordable Art Fair NYC returns for its 37th edition this March 19-23 with 78 galleries from New York, the US, and around the world. When visitors enter the doors of the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, ....
Kathryn Freeman, “Living with Goats” (2023), oil on linen (courtesy Carrie Haddad Gallery)Although we celebrate his birthday in April, March always reminds me of Shakespeare — something about the melodramatic in-betweenness of this time of year. And ....
After being closed to the public for about a year, Manhattan’s New Museum will reopen this fall with more than double the gallery space and a sweeping exhibition featuring the work of more than 150 ....
During my first visit to the Outsider Art Fair in Manhattan yesterday, February 27, the overall experience was exactly what I’d expected: a few stand-out booths amid a sea of puzzling ones. I often find ....
In a special oversight hearing at New York City Hall this morning, February 28, Brooklyn Museum workers, union representatives, and City Council members called on the institution to “exhaust all options” before implementing its recently ....
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will lay off 20 employees, around 7% of its staff, the institution announced today, February 28, citing post-pandemic financial constraints. The staff cuts are set to go into effect ....
In the three years since Russia invaded Ukraine, near-daily heavy drone strikes and missile bombardments have killed thousands of civilians and displaced many more. In addition to the loss of life and large-scale damage to ....
Artist Andil Gosine would be setting up his exhibition Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine in Washington, DC this week if the Art Museum of the Americas, an arm of the Organization of American States (OAS), ....
Treasures of the Medieval World at Luhring Augustine represents what galleries can offer that many museums do not: an up-close and personal experience with museum-worthy artworks, without an admission price. Over 40 works dating from ....
The pairing of paintings by Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz in Intersection at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects was a stroke of genius. Opening a week after A Planar Garden, curated by Stephen Westfall, closed ....
Philip Guston, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, a Black artist with a strict Southern Christian upbringing, came from vastly different backgrounds. But a current show at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan reveals that ....
Over 200 people, including current and former Brooklyn Museum workers and supporters, rallied outside the institution during a fundraising event tonight, February 25, to protest the recent sweeping layoffs impacting nearly 50 full- and part-time ....
The Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, has terminated an exhibition of works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists after the Trump administration allegedly withdrew the show’s funding amid crackdowns on Diversity, ....
It’s 31 degrees outside, but the wind makes it feel like 19. When I arrived at the New York Supreme Court Criminal Term at 100 Centre Street around 10am last Friday, watercolor pencils and sketch ....
The MFA Art Practice (AP) program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) approaches artmaking holistically: artists in the program are not defined or separated by medium or discipline. We view process as a kind ....
Strewn about a dark room are objects that recall the wreckage of a plane. As I investigated the scene of the catastrophe, I saw cloth bags holding battered metal beams and headlights or, even more ominously, ....
The projection of Luigi Mangione portrayed as a saint on a building at the intersection of Canal and Lafayette Streets in Lower Manhattan on Thursday evening, February 20. (image used with permission)Amid biting winds and ....
LOS ANGELES — As crowds descended on the Santa Monica Airport yesterday, February 20, for the opening of Frieze Los Angeles, casual bystanders might forget that just a month ago it wasn’t certain whether the ....
Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shooter Luigi Mangione appeared for a brief hearing at a Manhattan court today, February 21, for the first time since his December arraignment. The Ivy League graduate’s mug, embraced by ....
Harry Gould Harvey IV, “Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread” (2025) at Post-Fair (all photos Sigourney Schultz/Hyperallergic)LOS ANGELES — Yesterday, I bypassed Frieze’s VIP opening and headed to two of the city’s alternative ....
At the end of its previous term, the Trump administration turned its attention toward the arts. A 2020 executive order entitled “Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again” mandated that all future projects conform to Neoclassical architectural ....
A Mexico City exhibition of paintings portraying sexualized and queer Christian priests and nuns has elicited fervent complaints from religious groups and right-wing figures who have held protests at the museum for over a week.Artist Fabián ....
The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria per the country’s request, marking the single largest return to date of Benin antiquities looted by the British military as part of its 1897 ....
When wildfires swept through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena last month, the fate of the fairs participating in LA’s February Art Week was an open question. Many in the art world wonder whether it was ....
A “black box” — variously a flight data recorder, theater, and camera — is essentially a repository for different modes of memory. Many are in close conversation in American photographer Dona Ann McAdams’s moving new ....
Hundreds of artists rebuked the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in an open letter this week after the agency imposed new requirements for grant applicants not to operate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs ....
Sometimes we need to see the big picture to find meaning; other times it’s in the little things. And still other times, we can’t find it at all. Each of these perspectives is represented in ....
Valentine’s Day may be over, but love in art endures — including an iconic Klimt embrace. Solve this and other clues in the mini puzzle for the month of love, including a Michelangelo biopic, Broad ....
LEIPZIG, Germany — My first impression of Marina Perez Simão’s recent oil paintings — 17 of which are shown at G2 in Leipzig, in the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany — was how remarkably ....
A drama lives within each painting by Raoul De Keyser. Even the sparsest works are entire galaxies buzzing with activity. Yet, as curator Helen Molesworth writes of Touch Game, the late artist’s current show at ....