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Australia’s decision to drop Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi as its representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale has triggered an uproar culminating in a string of resignations and petitions signed by hundreds.Creative Australia, the country’s governing arts ....
The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously commercial day that can provoke resentment, elation, or both at the same time, we’ve gathered ....
‣ Calling all haters! This critical, refreshing review of a dance piece in London by Louise Levene in the Financial Times may renew your faith in performance criticism:The weakest of the four finalists was Larsen C, by ....
This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.The late Indian-American printmaker Krishna Reddy was a daring artist ....
About a year after becoming the first Native artist to ever singularly represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, Jeffrey Gibson will make his solo museum debut in Southern California this spring at the ....
LOS ANGELES — Invisibility: Powers & Perils at Oxy Arts at Occidental College looks at the consequences of that which cannot be seen. Curator Yael Lipschutz brings in an eclectic range of artists in this ....
Federal investigators have filed charges against the husband of New York gallerist Brent Sikkema for allegedly hiring his killer, the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan announced today, February 11. The news comes just over ....
Complex, compelling, and fantastical are just some of the words that could describe the shows below. Plan on making time to thoroughly take in these thought provoking and visually engaging shows, ranging from previously unseen ....
This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.From seashell and tortoiseshell body adornments to carving, seafaring, and ....
Crypto magnate Justin Sun, who purchased Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana “Comedian” (2019) in November for $6.2 million, is now suing billionaire DreamWorks co-founder and art collector David Geffen for the return of a $78.4 million ....
Human beings have a tendency toward collection. I have a theory that this desire to hang onto things is more true in times of crisis, but lately, I’ve begun to believe that we also have ....
Upon encountering Cy Twombly’s monumental nine-part polyptych “Untitled” (1971), I thought about the dark, domineering monolith that appears early on in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The object is of such unprecedented ....
“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? … Girls are so much prettier,” Marie Laurencin once told a Time magazine reporter. This often-repeated quote suggests that the late artist made pretty pictures ....
What does a “black consciousness of space” look like? Does it form a positive or a negative, or elide the two? And how about the tension or contrast between a “racialized, propertied world and heterogenous ....
American artist, curator, and author Fareed Armaly has declined the 2025 Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Academy of the Arts (ADK) in Berlin, citing the “reactionary shift in official cultural policies” targeting advocates for Palestinian ....
In an all-staff meeting this morning, February 7, Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak confirmed that the institution would be implementing layoffs in the face of a persistent budget deficit that is expected to reach $10 ....
At the core of identity in the United States is forgetting. The process of assimilation tells immigrants that the path of least resistance is to smooth their differences into imperial classifications.“Like an invisible disease, assimilation ....
Blair Stapp, “Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense” (1968), lithographic ink on paper with linen backing (image public domain via the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)This article ....
A painting by Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera acquired under Former First Lady Jill Biden has become the first work by a Hispanic or Latine artist represented in the White House’s permanent art collection. “Dia Feriado (Holiday)” ....
The New York Public Library’s (NYPL) Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem is turning 100, and marking the occasion with a yearlong series of centennial programs exploring its history, including an exhibition ....
LOS ANGELES — A king, a nurse, and two ballerinas walk into a bar. Or, more accurately, they walk into Eleanor Antin’s 1970s Persona series of photographs and drawings, currently on view at Diane Rosenstein ....
Kick off February with a puzzle gleaming with tributes to the late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, clues on Imani Perry’s new book, and more tidbits you might recognize from our pages. Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and ....
Last month, the Los Angeles art world was deeply affected by the wildfires that destroyed homes and businesses in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The art community pulled together and acted fast, establishing support networks ....
Deep in her imagination, painter Alexis Trice dreams of a canine that keeps appearing in her art. “One day,” she responded when I asked her if she has such a borzoi in her life or ....
This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.It’s a warm day in October 2023 in Shelton, Washington. ....
Craft Archive Fellowship Virtual Program: Archives in ActionThursday, February 27, from 5 to 6:30pm (EST) Join the Center for Craft and Hyperallergic for a free online presentation and roundtable discussion with this year’s Craft Archive ....
President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) mandating all federal agencies to end Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs is rippling throughout the arts and cultural sector as institutions either roll back initiatives or scramble to ....
Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed has requested the removal of a billboard artwork featuring a historic photograph from Selma’s infamous “Bloody Sunday” overlaid with the Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” The image had captured ....
Contemporary art gallery owner and philanthropist Gloria Naftali spent much of her life turning a Chelsea warehouse at 508-534 West 26th Street into an affordable home for artists, photographers, and galleries and assured its tenants ....
This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.I chase ghosts! That is, I investigate the forgotten spirits ....
Valentine’s Day is an annual reminder that affection for others and personal passion are vital aspects of living creatively amid challenging times. The vamp of art leads the way into February’s crop of exhibitions in ....
Cover of Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry (Ecco, 2025), featuring Titus Kaphar’s “Seeing Through Time” (2018), oil on panel (image courtesy Ecco)Editor’s Note: The following text ....
Artist Graham Nickson, who led the New York Studio School (NYSS) in Manhattan for more than half of its history as a passionate advocate for drawing and multi-faceted arts education, died on January 28 in ....
LOS ANGELES — The Spring Break Art Show has cancelled its upcoming LA fair, which was scheduled to take place from February 18 through 23, concurrently with Frieze LA, Felix, The Other Art Fair, and ....
The Smithsonian Institution reportedly told staff members today, January 28, that it is closing its office for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to comply with an executive order (EO) issued by President Donald Trump last ....
Nicolás González-Medina, woodcut block for “Somos La Resistencia (We Are the Resistance)” (2025) print (all images courtesy Nicolás González-Medina)Oakland-based artist and activist Nicolás González-Medina was among the nearly 1,000 protesters who gathered to advocate for ....
Over the last 15 months, artists have mobilized against Israel’s attacks on civilians in Gaza, which organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have determined to be consistent with genocide. After multiple failed attempts, ....
Duane Michals, “Untitled (Andy Warhol and Mother)” (1958), gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) (photo by Duane Michals, courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York)A little more than a mile south ....
Egúngún Àgbà (elder) masquerade performer from West Africa with horns that hint at a familial lineage of hunters or warriors. (photo by and courtesy Margaret Drewal)This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented ....
Two drawings by the renowned late Indian artist Maqbool Fida (M.F.) Husain at the Delhi Art Gallery (DAG) in New Delhi’s Connaught Place were seized on court orders on January 22, after a visitor affiliated ....
Between Mark Zuckerberg’s dissolution of Meta’s fact-checking program and Elon Musk loosening hate speech and disinformation moderation on X — and making an apparent Nazi salute after President Trump’s inauguration earlier this week — the ....
Do you ever feel like a plastic trash bag in the shape of Elon Musk? No? Good. This fitting effigy by yet-unknown makers appeared in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto on Tuesday, the day after the tech ....
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, is ending its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs as a result of an executive order (EO) issued by President Donald Trump on Monday, January 20. ....
Book Talk: Tamara Lanier’s Fight With Harvard to #FreeRentyWednesday, February 12, at 8pm (EST) / 5pm (PST) At this online event co-presented by Hyperallergic and ICA LA, activist Tamara Lanier and Hyperallergic’s Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian ....
Two art galleries in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood were affected when a fire broke out in a building on Wednesday night, January 22.Just before midnight, the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) responded to a fire ....
The opening salvo of Sin Fatigue, Nadine Sarriedine gallery’s inaugural show, is a fortune cookie message rendered in textile by Erin M. Riley: “You never hesitate to tackle the most difficult problems,” along with a ....
Jo Baer in 2020 (© Yaël Temminck)The painter Jo Baer, whose artistic path journeyed from hard-edged minimalism to self-described “radical figuration,” died yesterday, January 21, in Amsterdam at the age of 95. The news of ....
The Creative Capital Foundation has announced the recipients of its annual grant awards, amounting to $2.45 million allotted across 55 artists and collectives for 49 individual projects. Each grant provides $50,000 of unrestricted project funding ....
Visitors to the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday, January 18, may have met some of the artists included in one of the institution’s current exhibitions, but not under normal circumstances. At the entrance, several of them ....
OSLO — Look closely at the paintings of Else Hagen and beneath the rainbow of festive color lurk clouds of feminist angst. A mother ignores her playing children as warplanes hover outside. A woman in ....
HUDSON, New York — To talk about New Work By Linda Mussmann and Spaces in Places at Time & Space Limited (TSL) is to tell the story of TSL, and to do that, we must ....
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday commemorating the Civil Rights leader and peace activist, has taken place on the third Monday of January since 1983. This year, it falls on the same day ....
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, is slated to host a fundraising dinner organized by the Trump Vance Inauguration Committee ahead of the president-elect’s official swearing-in on Monday, January 20, according to ....
LOS ANGELES — As the wildfires that devastated large swaths of Los Angeles last week are gradually being contained, thousands of Angelenos are beginning to survey the damage and looking ahead at the long road ....
Fundraising efforts have sprouted across the United States to support Angelenos displaced amid the unprecedented destruction from the devastating fires over the last 10 days. This weekend, two art-oriented events right here in New York ....
Whether you’re trying to beat the winter blahs or enjoy the rare moments of midwinter sunshine, there’s plenty of compelling art to see in New York City’s museums and galleries. Prepare for the overlap of ....
David Lynch, the multi-hyphenate film director and artist known for classics both cult and traditional, from Blue Velvet (1986) to Mulholland Drive (2001), has died at the age of 78. His death was confirmed by ....
Editor’s Note: The following post contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org.‣ Netflix recently adapted a beloved novel by the late Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez — ....
Cameron Granger, “1st Movement— Cartography Catastrophe” (2022), silkscreen on paper with pen, 22 x 30 inches (~55.9 x 76.2 cm) (photo by Jake Heller; all photos courtesy the artist)It’s fitting that Cameron Granger was born ....
LOS ANGELES — Among all the destruction brought on by the unprecedented wildfires still burning across parts of LA County, the overwhelming devastation in Altadena is almost unfathomable. Located 14 miles northwest of downtown, Altadena ....
Pepe is hard to put into words. The enigmatic film exemplifies brilliant filmmaking yet fumbles in its esotericism. In the broadest terms, Pepe is a film about a real-life Colombian hippopotamus’s final thoughts as he ....
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced $36.8 million in grants to 1,474 individual artists, organizations, and museums across the United States today, January 14, in the first round of its Fiscal Year 2025 ....
When the Hollywood sign was first unveiled in 1923, it read “Hollywoodland.” Surrounded by coastal sage scrub, chaparral, and invasive and highly flammable eucalyptus trees, that kitschy, iconic, and slightly absurd marker consisting of 50-foot-tall letters spread ....
Unrecorded artist’s female figurine with hair in the “Hathor Style” and markings that appear to be tattoos from Egypt’s Middle Kingdom (c. 1850–1750 BCE), faience and paint, 5 inches (12.7 cm) (image public domain via ....
Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (photo Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic)Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, an examination of Siena’s breathtaking mix of blood and gold at the Metropolitan Museum ....
Even though my poor shelf is sagging under the weight of overdue library books and unread novels, I cannot resist a “most-anticipated” list when I see one. But this month, our editors decided to rifle ....
Deepen your practice as an artist within a diverse and nurturing community of outstanding faculty and fellow graduate students. Throughout the MFA program you’ll explore new techniques, refine your artistic philosophy, and gain teaching experience ....
Determining what materials are considered public domain can be a tricky process. From commonly held misconceptions and complicated copyright laws (such as those held in the United States) to restrictive digital licenses created by institutions ....
As multiple fires continue to ravage parts of Los Angeles County, cultural organizations and individual artists have kickstarted initiatives to offer support and resources for those in Altadena, Pasadena, Malibu, and other areas hit by ....
Several works by photographer Sally Mann displayed at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth were reportedly removed following Texas Republican officials’ calls for an investigation into her artworks. In the days prior, the right-wing ....
After laying off its 10-person team and cutting its hours ahead of the new year, the Pacific Tsunami Museum (PTM) in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, is doing everything it can to stay open in light of mounting ....
Raquel Rabinovich in her studio in Rheinbeck, New York in 2024 (all images courtesy the Raquel Rabinovich Art Trust)Raquel Rabinovich, who created subtle monochromatic paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, died of cancer on January ....
In line for tickets at The Met’s Great Hall, I spotted the massive calligraphy of Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze, a 2024 museum commission whose broad brush strokes leap across the canvas. In “Go where it ....
The historic Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, the Theatre Palisades, Pierson Playhouse, and the Palisades Branch Library reported that their buildings have been entirely destroyed by the ongoing fires ravaging the coastal Pacific Palisades neighborhood ....
Self-taught Canadian Pop artist and activist Joe Average, who dedicated his life to uplifting those living with HIV/AIDS and advocating for the LGTBQ+ community through inspiring kaleidoscopic artwork, died in his sleep in his Vancouver ....
The rapidly spreading Pacific Palisades fire in Southern California reached the Getty Villa grounds in the afternoon of Tuesday, January 7, according to initial reports from the museum and the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD).Alexandria ....
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Martha Diamond: Deep Time at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the first posthumous exhibition of work by the artist, who passed away in 2023, is a small survey chronicling 27 years of ....
Parmigianino, “The Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Jerome” (1526–27), oil on poplar, 135 x ∼58 1/2 inches (342.9 x 148.6 cm) (© The National Gallery, London. Presented by the Directors of ....
Color by Katherine Domínguez. View previous installments of the NYC Housing Stories series here.
Inventory Is Managed in Quick Turn PCB Assembly In the world of electronics development, time-to-market is a key metric in determining product success. As such, rapid prototyping and PCB assembly services have become a vital ....
Around 1963, Peter Young began to think of himself as a painter. A Los Angeles native who spent two years at Pomona College, in Claremont, California, he moved to New York in 1960 and studied ....
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 of ....
It’s 2025 and time to start a new year of exploring art — and there’s already plenty to see. While shimmering gold and sequins from artists like Machine Dazzle and Myrlande Constant are ideal to ....
Welcome to the 266th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists crave community and consider the nomadic nature of textiles.Want to take part? ....
The Dutch East India Company, or the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), was founded in 1602. As one of the first joint-stock corporations in the world, the VOC enabled Dutch citizens to invest in trade with ....
A group show of Raul de Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, and Tahnee Lonsdale premises art as a counterweight to ideological constraint. These four artists, whose works draw on their globalized experiences and transcendent aesthetics, ....
Happy Public Domain Day! Starting today, January 1, you can legally access, adapt, remix, and republish (depending on your jurisdiction) the work of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and Robert Capa, as well as certain texts ....
Faith Ringgold, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Audrey Flack, Yong Soon Min, and Lorraine O’Grady were some of the artists we lost in 2024. Among them were also Palestinian artists who were killed by Israeli airstrikes ....
Tucked in jargony press releases thanking private donors, the substance of major museum acquisition announcements can be difficult to grasp. Larger museums acquired hundreds of works in 2024, including the Brooklyn Museum, which added 330 ....
As committed chroniclers of the proverbial “art world” — an imperfect term denoting the ecosystem of artists, institutions, and other entities that make the visual art planet go ’round — we at Hyperallergic have noticed ....
SEATTLE — In the edge becomes the center at the Frye Art Museum, Mary Ann Peters invokes the suppressed histories of mass killings and forgotten diasporas. The first solo museum show for the second-generation Lebanese-American ....
DETROIT — Food has always played a vital role in fostering and maintaining community. It’s a key component of cultural heritage: How food is prepared, served, and shared is oftentimes communal and ritualistic. Food tells ....
Holly Wright, “Final Portrait: Vivian and Bob Folkenflik” (1983) (all images courtesy the Fralin Museum of Art unless otherwise noted)CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — “Vanity” is one of those words freighted with cultural baggage, from the Bible ....
All great empires rise gradually: brick by brick, wall by wall, fort by fort, war by war, plunder by plunder. And when they fall, they don’t just disappear in a puff of smoke. They dissolve slowly ....
Since our founding in 2009, Hyperallergic has always been at the forefront of social media, from finding our first home on Tumblr to becoming one of the first 10,000 adopters of Bluesky. As Hyperallergic’s Media ....
Some of the year’s Most Powerless, including climate activist Jackson “Kroegeor” Green, Jonathan Yeo’s King Charles portrait, a recent art history graduate, Camille Claudel, William the Hippo, and more (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) Here at ....
Welcome to the 265th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists paint a mural in their tattoo studio and pledge loyalty to oil ....
This week, I’m taking back the reins of Required Reading as Lakshmi is currently on vacation. This edition is video-rich as we shuffle from one holiday to the next, with New Year’s just around the ....
A Palestinian film centering stories from Gaza has been shortlisted in the International Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. From Ground Zero (2024), an anthological documentary comprising 22 short films curated by Ramallah-based ....
“Creating is a process; it should be done for joy,” artist Rita Blitt told Hyperallergic in a recent video interview from her part-time studio space in Berkeley, California. With a dynamic practice spanning nine full ....
When you hear the name Sandro Botticelli, you might be more likely to think of the Birth of Venus than the Birth of Jesus. But since it’s Christmas, now is a better time than ever ....
Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for the major astrological signs, grouped by their elemental associations, developed by AX Mina, producer for ....
As this year comes to a close and we gear up for the next, let’s take a moment to look back at Hyperallergic’s greatest hits from 2024. From our coverage of the Olympic games in ....
The holidays are busy, but everyone needs a break, and what better way to replenish your mind and soul than to see some art? Below are a few shows to catch when you can slip ....
Late American sculptor Robert Smithson’s best known creation, “Spiral Jetty” (1970), has been added to the United States National Register of Historic Places. Situated at Rozel Point along the northeast shore of Utah’s Great Salt ....
Modern audiences might have hazy notions of that tricky Ancient Greek hero of homecoming, Odysseus. They may know about his return to Penelope, his patiently loyal wife, or his somewhat annoying son Telemachus. More literary-minded ....
The Department of Art and Art History at the University at Albany, SUNY is accepting applications for MFA and MA programs in Studio Art. All students in the highly competitive two-year MFA program are offered Teaching or Graduate ....
Photographs of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, have been percolating in cyberspace for weeks, the subject of newsroom ethics debates and exponentially deranged memes.But prominent sketch artist Jane ....
Yesterday, the New York Police Department released photos of Luigi Mangione’s extradition to New York City. The accused murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears in prison-jumpsuit orange, a speck of color surrounded by a ....
Art can thrive in the most unfathomable times; 2024 was a year filled with global conflict but it was also a year of exceptional exhibitions. From Botticelli’s rarely seen drawings to sculptural revivals of archaic ....
In the 1970s, the humanist geographer Yi Fu Tuan speculated that “in some ideal future, our loyalty will be given only to the home region of intimate memories and, at the other end of the ....
Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez, whose dimensional paintings bridge geometric abstraction and eroticism, died at 98 on Wednesday, December 18. The news of her death was confirmed by Galerie Lelong in New York, her representing gallery ....
A group of researchers from Florida and Italy recently discovered trace amounts of a hallucinogenic concoction in an Ancient Egyptian drinking mug in the Tampa Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The mug in question depicts ....
In 1973, gallerist Tibor de Nagy gave Joyce Kozloff a call. His voice quivered as he told her that Clement Greenberg had just left the back room after giving a searing review of her latest ....
When London’s Tate Modern opened its doors in 2000, the museum greeted the public with Louise Bourgeois’s colossal arachnid steel and marble sculpture “Maman” (1999), which dominated its Turbine Hall entrance before leaving a trail ....
LOS ANGELES — During the Cold War, the CIA secretly bankrolled cultural initiatives promoting Abstract Expressionism as a shining example of American freedom and democracy. Meanwhile, it backed a coup that toppled the democratic government ....
Cecilia Vicuña’s practice of recollecting — in both senses of gathering and remembering — doubles as an act of care for that which time, loss, and neglect have obscured, though not entirely erased. At Lehmann ....
Leonardo da Vinci, “Lady with an Ermine” (1489–91), oil on wood panel, 21 x 15 inches (54 x 39 cm) (image courtesy National Museum of Krakow)If William Shakespeare believed that eyes are the windows to ....
How long have you been working in this space? Three months. Describe an average day in your studio. I arrive at the gallery space where I rent my studio and just get to work right ....
The MFA in Visual Arts at Purchase College, State of New York (SUNY), is a small, selective interdisciplinary program that fosters the artistic, intellectual, and professional growth of students through independent studio work and rigorous ....
EAST LANSING, Michigan — The road from Detroit to Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum is bleak in winter. Gray permeates everything — the sky, the barren trees, the sidewalks. It was almost a sensory ....
Conceptual artist and critic Lorraine O’Grady, known for pivotal works that subverted the binaries of Western thought, died at the age of 90 in New York City on Friday, December 13. O’Grady has left an indelible ....
Seattle Art Museum (SAM) security guards reached a tentative agreement with the institution yesterday, December 11, ending a 12-day strike that began on November 29.The SAM Visitor Service Officer (VSO) Union’s 59 security guards voted ....
‣ Hyperallergic Senior Editor Hakim Bishara appeared on the BBC Sounds podcast to discuss the infamous banana auction heard ’round the world. Listen to his take around the ~10:10 mark, and read his Opinion piece from ....
The trailblazing poet, artist, educator, and lifelong activist Nikki Giovanni, known as the “Princess of Black Poetry,” died on Monday, December 9 at a hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81. Giovanni’s publicist told local ....
BERLIN — At the opening reception of her career retrospective This Will Not End Well at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie on November 22, Nan Goldin delivered a speech that reverberated across the world. “Why can’t I speak, ....
In the late 1950s, a Manhattan-born college student was running from an art history course at Barnard to a George Balanchine ballet practice at the storied School of American Ballet on 82nd Street and Broadway. ....
An exhibition space at an Austrian contemporary art museum was damaged on Saturday, December 7, in an apparent act of vandalism targeting a feminist art installation by Nadya Tolokonnikova, the founder of the Russian activist ....
Those familiar with the Picnic House in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park might recognize it as a popular venue for weddings and other private celebratory events. But this past weekend, December 7 and 8, the sound of ....
Tetris is perfection. It is not merely one of the most important video games of all time, but, I would argue, one of the greatest works of anything of the past half-century. Considering the international ....
ATLANTA — The tale of two intrepid people setting off on a journey to explore the vast expanse of the United States is well-worn by now. Inspired by the colonialist principle of Manifest Destiny, the ....
MINNEAPOLIS — For five decades now, Sophie Calle has been probing human connection, emotional impulses, and vulnerability via fictional devices, dry humor, and an unapologetic impropriety. In Sophie Calle: Overshare at the Walker Art Center, ....
MIAMI BEACH — Dozens of activists gathered outside of the Convention Center on the second public day of Art Basel Miami Beach, December 7, to call on the city to divest from Israel. On the ....
Several California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) faculty and staff members hand-delivered a letter signed by 64 employees to the office of President Ravi Rajan on Tuesday, December 3, stating their intent to unionize with ....
Early yesterday morning, December 5, an autonomous group of activists boarded the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette Street/Bleeker Street subway station in Manhattan to replace the adverts displayed throughout the car with one message: “A ....
MIAMI — I have made it to Friday without forgetting my press pass in an Uber or developing cafecito-related heart palpitations, and by Miami Art Week standards I’d call that a win. Yesterday we discussed ....
‣ Historians have long debated the intention behind an 18th-century portrait of Afro-Jamaican scholar Francis Williams, and Fara Dabhoiwala writes about his theory for the London Review of Books:What difference does it make to know ....
The music streaming service Spotify shared its personalized year-end “Wrapped” round-ups with all of its listeners today, showing them who they listened to the most, which madlibs-y named genres they discovered this year, and how ....
“How do you teach the reader racial literacy through visual literacy?” asked the late cultural historian, writer, and curator Maurice Berger in a 2018 interview. A research professor and chief curator at the Center for ....
This August, journalist Moustafa Bayoumi broke the story that the first photo of a detainee in a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) black site had been declassified. It shows an emaciated Ammar al-Baluchi, standing shackled and ....
The art world grows curiouser and curiouser each year, and 2024 was certainly no exception. Take a stab at our December puzzle with clues culled from the past 12 months of solo shows, unforgettable artworks, ....
Miami Art Week inspires a range of emotions. For locals, it’s a chance to celebrate all the artistic wealth the city has to offer — but also to roll their eyes at the Uber traffic ....
This month’s shows span the aquatic, familial, and celestial to engage with tradition and history, tracing threads of connection in some cases and challenging the old orders in others. Eden reimagines the biblical garden as a radical ....
When one door closes, another door opens — an art gallery door, that is. Yes, there’s a not insignificant number of New York spaces calling it quits, but there’s also a blossoming of artistic endeavors ....
Have you ever heard your own stomach grumble so loudly in a quiet exhibition gallery that visitors turned to stare? … Me neither. When hunger pangs strike during a moment of artful contemplation, many of ....
Welcome to the 261st installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists toggle between graphic design, painting, and tattooing, and savor the power of ....
‣ You’ve seen Florence Owens Thompson before, though you may not realize it. For Places, Myriam Gurba writes about the woman pictured in Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother,” a symbol of Great Depression-era poverty that erases its ....
PRATO, Italy — Earlier this year, something drew me back to the diaries of Anaïs Nin. I’d read several volumes decades ago. Tracing the French-American author’s libertine, literary life in Paris and New York starting ....
This is the fifth of a series of comics depicting transformative moments in the lives of artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing affordability crisis in New York CityMiguel Robles-Durán Urbanist ....
I’m of the belief that a well-rounded life demands a bender here and there. I’m not suggesting a dip into hallucinogens, per se — rather, a little break from the superego, a little indulgence in ....
Just in time for Thanksgiving, an archivist at the Smithsonian Institution has stumbled upon a treasure of culinary and visual art history. In a dusty storage room, a box mistakenly labeled “the nicer china for ....
When Lucy Lippard left New York City for the tiny village of Galisteo, New Mexico, some were shocked: How could this giant of 20th-century art criticism, this leader in the fight for feminism and equitable ....
Days before the Venice Biennale closed this year with the second-highest visitor turnout in its history, over 50 artists from Gaza announced their decision to form their own version of the contemporary art festival: the ....
Northeastern United StatesBard Graduate CenterEmerging curators, researchers, educators, and museum professionals learn to ask new questions about the cultural history of the material world through the NYC institution’s MA and PhD programs.Center for Curatorial Studies, ....
We’re proud to present our list of the best art books of 2024 for your holiday reading, and perhaps to inspire your gifting this winter. Our editors and critics read across genre, subject, and pace ....
A court in Washington, DC, handed down prison sentences earlier this month to two climate activists who dumped red tempera paint powder on a case containing the original United States Constitution at the National Gallery of ....
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The first comprehensive survey in Germany of the American feminist artist and video pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson, at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, is an exhilarating, if anxiety-inducing, experience. As an early ....
I first met the multitalented Danny Moynihan in the early 1980s, but I did not see him again until recently. During that time, he’s worked as a gallerist and an independent curator, published a satirical ....
A new life-sized statue celebrating actor and Chicano art collector Cheech Marin was unveiled on Tuesday, November 19, outside his namesake arts and culture center in Riverside, California.Entitled “Meet Me at The Cheech” in honor ....
Last night, November 20, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” (2019), a work that consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction. This is wrong. It’s beyond wrong. It’s obscene and ....
’Tis the season! At Hyperallergic, we are especially grateful to the members who make our work possible. To celebrate, we are hosting a holiday member event at the Gochman Family Collection in New York, where ....
‣ Almost a century ago, the K’ëgit totem was bought and carried off by a Swiss artist. This week, a delegation from the Wet’suwet’en Nation was finally reunited with the cultural gem in Paris, CBC News ....
How long have you been working in this space? Six months. Describe an average day in your studio. An average day in my studio typically begins early, around 8:30am or 9am. I like to ease ....
When the political cartoon from which the film Join or Die draws its title was first printed by Benjamin Franklin, it was a call to unite American colonists in the dual purpose of self-protection and ....
Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian” (2019) was offered at Sotheby’s with an estimate of $1–1.5 million. (image courtesy Sotheby’s)Back-to-back typhoons are ripping through villages, humanitarian crises are raging, and New York City is so dry it’s burning ....
The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, part of the College of the Arts at Georgia State University, features an internationally active faculty and a rigorous curriculum that prepares students for professional careers ....
Elections have consequences. The House, which will continue to be under the control of Republicans along with the Senate and the White House next year, is already considering a new bill, the so-called Stop Terror-Financing ....
Martha Diamond is among the most perceptive painters of the last five decades. Her work’s formal concision and painterly bravado reflect an inner dialogue with generations of abstract artists, and the results demonstrate an inimitable ....
A London judge sided with Icelandic fishing giant Samherji in an intellectual property lawsuit against conceptual artist Odee Friðriksson (ODEE), whose work “We’re Sorry” (2023) called attention to the company’s alleged involvement in the transnational “Fishrot” ....
Visual Arts – Kapishkum: Métis GatheringDeadline: January 29, 2025 | Program Dates: June 2–July 4, 2025This residency will facilitate discussion and artistic expression within the context of Métis resilience, reclamation, revitalization, and transcendence. Participants will ....
Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon was not afforded the opportunity to come into her own as an artist until her early 50s. For this reason, the visual component of A Woman I Once Knew — a ....
‣ An independent, Michigan-based magazine by and for lesbians marks its 50th anniversary this year, and reporter Sydney Boles tells the story of its inception and evolution for Autostraddle:To call the early years of Lesbian Connection a ....
In 2015, artist Matthew Chavez was recovering from a motorbike accident that left him in the hospital for three weeks and unable to walk for months when he planted the seeds for Subway Therapy, a ....
Barbara Carrasco’s L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective” (1981) at the NHM Commons (all photos Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)LOS ANGELES — After more than four decades, Barbara Carrasco’s 80-foot-long mural “L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective” is ....
Before holiday fever kicks in, take advantage of all that the city’s museums and galleries have to offer. The Met’s Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now and El Museo’s triennial Flow States ....
Dartmouth’s MFA in Sonic Practice is a three-year, fully-funded graduate program for composers, artists, and scholars working expansively with sound. The program draws together a close-knit community of makers and thinkers concerned with the visceral ....
ROSENDALE, New York — It was the summer of 1974 when college friends Ann Kalmbach, Tatana “Tana” Kellner, Anita Wetzel, and Barbara “Babs” Leoff Burge rented out a two-story single-family house in the working-class town ....
A marble tablet inscribed with nine of the Ten Commandments, said to be the oldest intact version of its kind in stone, is set to go under the hammer next month in a single-lot sale ....
The Royal Film Commission (RFC) of Jordan withdrew its submission of an Armenian-Jordanian filmmaker’s documentary about Artsakh for the 97th Academy Awards’s Best International Film category last week, citing “diplomatic pressures.”Director Sareen Hairabedian’s My Sweet ....
Countering the recycled refrain that “painting is dead,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s recently opened exhibition, The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020, suggests that painting remains in a constant state of renewal ....
How can architecture change the world? This year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF), held in Singapore’s Marina Bay, provides a glimpse into how design meets visions for the future. In last week’s iteration of the annual festival, ....
MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — Diversity, equity, and inclusion: The refrain has climbed its way into common parlance in the last few years, after a nationwide racial reckoning in the summer of 2020. According to Indeed, corporate ....
An art complex in Albuquerque’s Barelas neighborhood suffered damages and is temporarily shuttered after a fire broke out earlier this month. Sections of the nonprofit Fourteenfifteen Gallery, its Alpaca event space, and the adjoining Minnow ....
In 1967, while living in exile in New York City, South African freelance photojournalist Ernest Cole published his seminal and only book House of Bondage, exposing the violent atrocities of Black life under apartheid to ....
Les-be honest, lady liberty. (screenshot via @CISFAKER on X, all screenshots Hyperallergic)I hate to say it, but when I saw that lubricated hippo go for the Trump cake, I knew it was over. Months ago, ....
When Microsoft debuted its landmark operating system Windows XP in the fall of 2001, the default desktop wallpaper “Bliss” ended up becoming the most viewed photograph in the world. You might not recognize it by ....
A few weeks ago, dozens of photographs of the “We Are Our Mountains” (“Tatik-Papik”) monument in occupied Artsakh disappeared from Wikimedia Commons. A red text box emerged, warning against uploading new images in which the ....
United Nations (UN) exhibition staff removed part of a public art exhibition in its General Assembly Lobby in New York City after Israel’s Permanent Representative to the UN Danny Danon condemned references to Palestine contained ....
As many as 45 members and allies of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side gathered outside of a Tribeca event venue yesterday evening, November 7, to protest the Museum of Chinese ....
Small experimental press Spiral Editions has published a new print, timed with an election that fried all of our nerves. Queer Commune, an artist studio in Minneapolis, designed a visual reminder of the movements for ....
Welcome to the 258th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists commune with a creek, regard their workspace as a sandbox, and build ....
WASHINGTON, DC — I knew I didn’t want to see the wannabe-Beaux Arts buildings of Capitol Hill, the erect dick of the Washington Monument, the cliché of looking out glumly at the reflecting pool. I didn’t ....
Kamala Harris sold us “joy.” Instead, we got a crushing defeat and a return to the miserable days of Donald Trump’s presidency.I’m looking at a photograph taken by Stephanie Keith at an October 5 rally ....
Talk about a crafty release strategy — a waltz by the Romantic Polish composer Frédéric Chopin just dropped, about 200 years after his death.Measuring four by five inches (~10.2 x 13 cm), the manuscript was ....
Installation view of Maura Brewer: Leverage at Timeshare, Los Angeles (all images courtesy Timeshare gallery, photos Brandon Bandy unless otherwise noted)LOS ANGELES — Maura Brewer’s video essay “Leverage” (2024) unpacks the contemporary phenomenon of art ....
Three individuals have been charged with “making a terroristic threat as a hate crime” in connection with the vandalism of four Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes this summer, according to a statement from Brooklyn District Attorney ....
Beverly McIver’s “VOTE Black Beauty” (2024) references reproductive rights policies. (image courtesy Artists for Democracy)On November 5, millions of voters across the United States will head to the polls to cast ballots for the country’s ....
On October 7, 2023, I had plans to meet at the Brooklyn Museum with my close friend, Palestinian fashion designer Suzy Tamimi, and to view the groundbreaking exhibition Africa Fashion. Despite the immense emotions that ....
Berlin-based artist Candice Breitz launched a line of clothing items to generate funds for the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. (all images by and courtesy Studio Breitz)Berlin-based South African artist Candice Breitz has created a clothing campaign ....