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추천 메뉴는 강남달토에서 뭐야?
추천 메뉴는 강남달토에서 강남에서 편안하게 시간을 보내며 맛있는 음식을 즐기고 싶다면 자연스럽게 떠오르는 장소가 바로 강남달토입니다. 많은 사람들이…
Laura James Paints What America Wants to Forget
“Make work.” Laura James shared this concise yet powerful mantra with me during a visit to her Bronx…
A Palestinian Artist’s Final Exhibition in His Homeland
On November 29, 1947, an exhibition featuring 53 oil paintings by the Palestinian-Lebanese artist Maroun Tomb opened at…
Independent Art Fair Partners With Sotheby’s, Raising Larger Market Questions
The art world has seen its fair share of eyebrow-raising brand collaborations in recent years. Damien Hirst made…
Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Language of Country
LONDON — An exquisite rhythm rolls across the sheer mass of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s paintings, produced in prolific…
Art Loves You Back When People Don’t
Obsession often does an artist good. That idea she can’t stop thinking about, that uncompleted project that keeps…
Art on Paper Leaps Off the Page
As I circled around the dozens of booths along the three wide lanes at Art on Paper on…
Robert Grosvenor, Who Refused to Be Defined by Genre, Dies at 88
Robert Grosvenor, whose work resisted artistic classification for more than six decades, died in Long Island, New York,…
How New Collector Habits Are Shaking Up Art Fair Season
Eduardo Holgado encounters most of his art on Instagram now, perusing posts from galleries and artists before ever…
At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight
Calling Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka’s solo presentation at the Armory Show a “booth” feels somehow wrong, like a reduction…
Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art
Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art will make its debut at Joseloff Gallery on September 11, followed by…
Smithsonian Secretary Responds to Trump’s Museum Crackdown
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch sent a letter to the Trump administration responding to a list of demands the…
Twentieth Century Portrait Photography at the National Arts Club
The National Arts Club (NAC) is thrilled to launch its 2025–26 season with Influence and Identity | Twentieth…
Elizabeth Foundation Makes Offer on Iconic Chelsea Artist Building
A view of the 508-534 West 26th Street building complex in West Chelsea, Manhattan (photo Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) An…
At the Edge of Arrival
Raheleh Filsoofi is an itinerant artist, feminist curator, and community advocate. Using clay and sound as her primary…
Marian Spore Bush Was Nobody’s “Visionary Artist”
“Who was Marian Spore Bush?” The question begins an essay by Bob Nickas, who curated the exhibition Marian…
Apply for a 2026–2027 Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications to its premier fellowship program, the…
Decode the Art Fair Lingo With Our Armory Show Bingo Card
Each year, come September, we all pretend the world isn’t burning and put on our best oversized shirt…
The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
LONDON — Some of the Courtauld’s previous exhibitions have suffered from insufficient curation. Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Alice…
The Artist Whose Fauci Portraits Enraged the White House
In 2019, Hugo Crosthwaite became the first Latino artist to win the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) prestigious…
World’s Largest Van Gogh Collection Faces Uncertain Future
Since 1973, Vincent van Gogh masterpieces including his beloved sunflowers, wistful wheatfields, and self-portraits have been housed in…
Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
SAN MARINO, Calif. — Standing in the gallery of Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight, you are bathed in…
Facing $15M Budget Deficit, CalArts Lays Off Workers
A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at…
Facing $15M Budget Deficit, CalArts Lays Off 12 Workers
A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at…
The 2025 NY Art Book Fair Returns to MoMA PS1
Initiated in 2006, the NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is a celebration and international gathering for artists’ book…
Smithsonian Latino Gallery Quietly Closes for Nine Months
The Molina Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which has served as the…
Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?
LONDON — Of all the YBAs (Young British Artists) of the 1990s — including upstarts like Damien Hirst…
An Insider’s Guide to NYC’s Fall 2025 Art Fairs
It’s about that time of year when the slight crisping of the air signals that the balmy summer…
Amy Sherald Speaks Out on Cancelling Her Smithsonian Show
Amy Sherald, the painter most widely known for her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, detailed her…
A Landmark Raphael Retrospective Is Coming to The Met
Raphael, “The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna)” (1509–11)…
New York Area Show to See Right Now
As the summer winds down and the season of art fairs and openings approaches, you might assume that…
Colorado Town Settles With Native Artist Who Brought Free Speech Lawsuit
Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta painter Danielle SeeWalker has settled a civil rights lawsuit with the town of Vail, Colorado, more…
This Novel Is the Art World’s Black Mirror
I started reading Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection (2022) splayed out languidly on the beach. Then I was…
Sandra Poulson’s Haunted House
The Surrealists understood that so much depends on context: What is ordinary lining a glove, for instance, becomes…
The Mesmerizing Wonder of Wabanaki Weaving
GREENWICH, Conn. — Jeremy Frey weaves slim strips of wood into mesmerizing patterns and color combinations with extreme…
Kenny Nguyen: The Divine Eye
Kenny Nguyen: The Divine Eye is an evocative, large-scale installation that invites viewers to engage with the rich…
Ancient Sculptures Recovered From Sunken City Off Alexandria
Pieces of limestone buildings, marble and granite royal statues, and the remains of a merchant ship are among…
Erasure of Rainbow Memorial for Pulse Shooting Victims Raises Alarm in Florida
The Orange Avenue crossing before and after it was paved over (image courtesy Office of Mayor Buddy Dyer)…
Trump Targets LGBTQ+ History, Migrants, and More in Chilling Smithsonian Hit List
Rigoberto A. González, “Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas” (2020) was among the artworks targeted in…
A Cézanne Celebration as Sweet as a Bowl of Apples
The south of France is known for its idyllic coastal climate, lush vineyards, and charming villages that date…
Did This 19th-Century Painting Inspire Taylor Swift’s New Album Art?
John Everett Millais, “Ophelia” (1851-2) (image via Wikimedia Commons, PDM 1.0) A 19th-century artwork that has inspired artists…
Trump Says US Museums Should Focus Less on Slavery
In a Truth Social tirade on Tuesday, Donald Trump called the Smithsonian Institution, which his administration has sought…
Mickalene Thomas Accused of Harassment and Nonpayment by Ex-Fiancée
Mickalene Thomas’s former fiancée and business partner has accused the contemporary artist of sexual harassment, nonpayment, and workplace…
Senator Seeks Probe Into MoMA Trustee Leon Black’s Epstein Ties
Leon Black at the Museum of Modern Art’s film benefit on November 19, 2018 (photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty…
Dispatches From the Ever-Evolving Santa Fe Indian Market
SANTA FE — Every third weekend in August, New Mexico’s capital becomes a hub of Indigenous creativity for…
Sub-versive DC Protester Becomes Memeorable
Top: Mural at Dupont Circle North Metro Station in Washington, DC, pays homage to the man who threw…
Agnès Varda’s Photographic Odes to Queer Paris
PARIS — The bowl cut, the cats, the heart-shaped potatoes. The predilection for loopy plots and faces hidden…
It’s Time to Rethink the 50/50 Split With Art Galleries
Why should the creator of the artwork only get 50%? (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) August is when the…
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40-Year-Old David Wojnarowicz Mural Resurfaces, Only to Be Hidden Again
“Hey, there’s some kind of painting there on that wall!” The Kentucky architect Moseley Putney remembers the precise…
Trump Wants “American Exceptionalism” at the Smithsonian. Will He Get It?
The Trump administration will begin a “comprehensive internal review” of the Smithsonian Institution, including an examination of exhibitions,…
For $9.5M, Rothko’s Former Home and Studio Could Be Yours
Mark Rothko’s former apartment and studio in Manhattan’s Lenox Hill, where he created the paintings for his renowned…
A Photographic History of Queer Intimacy
LOS ANGELES — A circa 1848 daguerrotype featuring a nude lesbian couple engaging in foreplay meets Matías Sauter…
A Hiroshima Survivor’s Message for Jerry Saltz
Howard Kakita survived the American atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. (all photos courtesy Howard Kakita)…
Visitors Can’t Keep Their Hands Off This Eggplant Artwork
Museum visitors in Singapore have reportedly had difficulty keeping their hands off a wall installation consisting of dozens…
Court Sides With Peter Doig in Bizarre Authorship Lawsuit
A federal judge in Illinois sided with Scottish artist Peter Doig last month in an outlandish decades-long legal…
A Photographer Brings New York City’s Water System to the Surface
New York City is defined in many ways by its iconic infrastructure, from our parks to the soaring…
“Alligator Alcatraz” Construction Halted, But Native Heritage Remains at Risk
A federal judge halted further construction on the notoriously dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center yesterday, August 7, in…
As ADAA’s Art Show Changes Course, a Nonprofit Is Left in Limbo
For more than three decades, the Art Dealers Association of America’s (ADAA) annual Art Show in New York…
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This August
This month’s exhibitions bring a transformative twist to the everyday, imbuing mundane items with psychological, political, and personal…
Thai Art Center Censors Exhibition After “Pressure” From China
A Bangkok exhibition exploring state violence and resistance, which included artists from Tibet and Hong Kong, was altered…
Kasmin and Clearing Galleries Announce Closures
The wave of gallery closures that has roiled the art world in recent months continues this week with…
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A Moving Encounter With the Art of Bernard Williams
CHICAGO — Nearly every summer in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, some genuinely dumb public art is trotted…
Kour Pour Reclaims the Geometry of Abstraction
Kour Pour, “Twice Removed” (2025), acrylic, block ink, and esphand on shaped canvases (all images courtesy Kour Pour…
New York City Shows We Love Right Now
If we need anything from art at this dire time, it’s faith and fun. The shows below encourage…
Haunted by the Gray
Amy Sherald, “As American as Apple Pie” (2020) in Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of…
Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?
The cinematic journey in Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) (2024) begins in the Mexican countryside. Modern civilization — signified…
The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: Public Art Edition
Public art has no single form — it’s that mural you pass on your daily commute, the sculpture…
Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art
LOS ANGELES — “The art department is one excellent example of how the arts of peace become the…
Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing
HOUSTON — To say that I’m drawn to Jillian Conrad’s art might sound like an all-too-easy pun in…
Opportunities for Artists, Writers, and Art Workers in August 2025
Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to…
Homeland Security’s Genocidal Aesthetics
The Department of Homeland Security posted John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress” (screenshot Hyperallergic, via X) Prussian painter…
Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment Reference
The Smithsonian Institution has removed a label from the National Museum of American History exhibition The American Presidency…
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Raymond Saunders, Who Made the Color Black His Own, Dies at 90
Portrait of American artist Raymond Saunders (1970s) (photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images) Raymond Saunders, whose collage-based paintings and…
Man Dies in Whitney Museum Fall
A 34-year-old man died after a fall from the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan on Wednesday,…
How My Museum’s Celebration of America’s 250th Birthday Got Complicated
A visitor leaves a “birthday wish” for the United States’ 250th Anniversary at the New York Historical (photo…
Twenty Years of Life in Chinatown
Picture this: You are a set of clothes hangers strung out on a rooftop clothesline, placed there by…
New York City and Upstate Shows to See Right Now
Sometimes it seems like the art world has a short attention span, skipping from one trend to the…
The Poetic Optimism of Latina Lesbian Activism
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — “EN CADA BESO UNA REVOLUCIÓN.” “LESBIANAS. UNIDAS. ¡FELICES!” Such battle cries embody the poetic…
A Glimpse Inside the Dizzying Psyche of Daniel Johnston
A drawing by Daniel Johnston (image courtesy Daniel Johnston Trust, all others Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic) I was in my…
How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art
Helen Chadwick, latex costume used in “Domestic Sanitation” (1976) (© Estate of Helen Chadwick) It is perhaps a…
BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World
Still from Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez’s TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025), which…
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10 Bay Area Art Shows for the Dog Days of Summer
I spent a few weeks abroad this summer, and it was a relief to be away from the…
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lays Off 12 Workers
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the umbrella institution overseeing the de Young and Legion of…
A Hollywood Hills Gallery-Home Is Reborn as an Artist’s Residency
LOS ANGELES — In 1933, German-Jewish artist, art collector, and art dealer Galka Scheyer commissioned architect Richard Neutra…
Refik Anadol’s Soulless AI Tribute to Leo Messi
Refik Anadol set himself up for failure. For his latest work, the artist best known for his shapeshifting…
Andres Serrano Proposes Trump Altar for the Venice Biennale
New York City-born artist and provocateur Andres Serrano wants the United States Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale…
Chance Encounters at Upstate Art Weekend 2025
The month of July brings Upstate Art Weekend (UAW), an annual summer cornucopia of art in the region.…
Trump Withdraws US From UNESCO, Again
President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for…
Chicago Nonprofit Celebrates a Decade of Serving Unhoused Artists
CHICAGO — Do people need art? I know I always have, as something to enjoy, discuss, learn from,…
Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
A day after Independence Day in the United States, the world’s richest man announced on X that he…
How “Coldplaygate” Became the Meme of the Summer
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” reimagined for the moment (via @memequeen and @esixus on Instagram, all screenshots Hyperallgic) As…
Visa Denials Create Hurdles for Artist Residencies
Every year, two dozen artists from around the world travel to the United States to participate in a…
“The First Homosexuals” Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life
CHICAGO — The history of art, stated curator Jonathan D. Katz, “is both the world’s largest archive of…
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Trump Gifted Epstein a Lewd Drawing on His Birthday, Report Says
A crude sketch of a naked woman allegedly hand-drawn by President Donald Trump was in a salacious 50th…
Artists and the Alchemy of Color
Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on August 12, 2025, for a virtual conversation with two renowned…
An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness
Few of Japan’s great photographers had a career as bold and multifaceted as Masahisa Fukase. Though largely defined…
The Renaissance, But Make It “Game of Thrones”
A documentary can sometimes tell a viewer more about the time it was made than the one it…
Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life
SAN FRANCISCO — Ruth Asawa’s infant son, Paul, lies on a blanket in a tender ink drawing entitled…
Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan Banana Invests $100M in Trump Crypto
Crypto mogul Justin Sun is — unsurprisingly — making another controversial investment decision, and this time, we wish…
Yale Art Gallery Withdraws Federal Grant Requests After Trump DEI Ban
The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven has withdrawn two federal grant requests for a forthcoming Southeast…
Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art
HAMBURG, Germany — Only July 9, 1975, the artist Bas Jan Ader, age 33, set sail from Cape…
10 Upstate Art Weekend Destinations Worth the Trip
It’s that time of the year again when the sweltering, swampy heat of New York City has even…
Artists Decry Centre Pompidou’s Cancellation of Caribbean Art Exhibition
Nearly 150 artists, curators, and other cultural figures signed an open letter denouncing the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s decision to…
Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
Julia Margaret Cameron, “Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!” (1867), carbon print (© The Royal Photographic…
Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way
The sky has been a source of inspiration for artists since time immemorial. But our collective understanding of…
The Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House
The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens…
A View From the Easel
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Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway
One of the best parts about aging, as an artist and a woman, is finding untapped confidence and…
Shamim M. Momin Is the Bronx Museum’s New Director
Shamim M. Momin will begin her tenure as director and chief curator of the Bronx Museum. (photo by…
Buffalo Museum Cancels Event After Backlash Against Texas Flood Cartoon
The Buffalo News published a cartoon about the Texas floods that sparked outrage from some audiences. (screenshot Maya…
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What Were Federal Agents Doing at a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?
Federal agents paid an unexpected visit to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (NMPRAC) in…
Gao Zhen, Chinese Artist Detained for “Defaming” Mao, Looks Ahead to Trial
Artist and Gao Brothers member Gao Zhen, who has been held in a Chinese detention center for nearly…
Penn Museum Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
On the heels of a historic municipal work stoppage that left Philadelphia’s streets drowning in mounting garbage piles,…
Moki Cherry, the Swedish Designer Who Blurred Art and Life
Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry had a boundless art practice that extended out to the literal walls…
New App Turns Mobile Boarding Passes Into JD Vance Memes
It’s been nearly a month since 21-year-old Mads Mikkelsen was denied entry into the United States after border…
Slain Palestinian Boy Honored in Illinois Playground Monument
Community members in Plainfield, Illinois, unveiled a monument late last month honoring six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi, who was murdered…
The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: July 2025
Answer: They’re in this month’s crossword! Dig into our July art puzzle with more clues on the French…
The Sensual Irreverence of Milly Thompson
LONDON — In a small rural village in Scotland, an advertisement-style billboard by Milly Thompson (1964–2022) depicted two…
10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York July 2025
As another Independence Day comes and goes, and our nation is increasingly compromised, we lean ever further into…
Trump Seeks to Defund Institute of American Indian Arts
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the only four-year school devoted to contemporary Indigenous arts, could lose…
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles July 2025
A refusal to adhere to distinct categories, a breakdown of hierarchies, and an embrace of hybridity are a…
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An Artist’s Fourth of July Muppets Parody
To our friends of the human persuasion: Ten years ago the Muppets made a show called The Great…
What Can History Museums Offer in the Trump Era?
“May we wake up from the nightmare that is our current leadership by voting for leaders who care…
Five Art Books for Your July 2025 Reading List
Take a moment to recall the last time you heard the sound of the ocean. Maybe it’s been…
Khaled Sabsabi Reinstated as Australia’s Venice Biennale Artist
Artist Khaled Sabsabi (left) and curator Michael Dagostino (right) (photo by Anna Kucera for Creative Australia) Artist Khaled…
Lorde Shocks Fans With Nude Vulva Photo by Talia Chetrit
In the lead-up to the release of Lorde’s fourth album, Virgin, this past weekend, the singer’s social media…
A Mother and Daughter’s Lifelong Art Collaboration
AUSTIN — Nora Naranjo Morse and Eliza Naranjo Morse: Lifelong at the Blanton Museum of Art is part…
The Spiritual Modernism of Mestre Didi
Mention “spirituality” in relation to modern or contemporary art in a United States metropolis, and chances are you’ll…
Tracing Queer History Through NYC’s Public Parks
This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2025 Pride Month series, spotlighting moments from New York’s LGBTQ+ art history…
Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction
HOUSTON — On April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Joe Overstreet began…
Behind a Flight Attendant’s Painted-On Smile
On my second visit to Hello Goodbye at Dimin, ceramicist Michelle Im’s first solo exhibition in New York,…
The $90,000 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants and the children of immigrants in the…
Lisa Yuskavage’s Genre-Defying Works on Paper Presented at the Morgan Library & Museum
Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is the first career-spanning museum exhibition dedicated to the drawings of the acclaimed contemporary artist.…
Tourist Denied US Entry After ICE Found JD Vance Meme on His Phone
Mads Mikkelsen, a 21-year-old from Norway, was denied entry to the United States earlier this month after immigration…
Anna Wintour to Remain Met Gala Chair
After nearly four decades of reigning with an iron fist, Anna Wintour is stepping down from her fiery…
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Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer of Lived Experience, Dies at 95
Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon, who tirelessly trained her lens on the social inequalities, painful struggles, and human resilience…
Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake
SAN FRANCISCO — There’s nothing nicer than going into a major museum show like Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes…
The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph
Before the telephone rendered it obsolete, the optical telegraph was somewhat of a national fixation in 19th-century France.…
Stunning Photos of the Cosmos From the World’s Largest Digital Camera
Millions of iridescent stars, far-off remote galaxies, and swarms of hurtling asteroids are just a few of the…
This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum
I don’t tell this story often, and have never told it in such detail publicly before. However, given…
Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art
Chloë Bass likes to people watch, and our emotions are her medium. She’s part of a lineage of…
Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
Artist’s voices aren’t always easy to listen to. Sometimes it’s because they’re speaking to uncomfortable realities that shape…
San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming Than Ever
For the third year in a row, Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents the San Francisco Art Book Fair…
The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati
TUNIS — It was early spring in Tunisia, and shockingly bright bougainvillea were exploding, the sky was a…
Ringling Museum Will Stay Under Florida State University, for Now
The sculptures outside the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, breathe a sigh of relief as DeSantis’s proposal to…
Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
To liberally paraphrase Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Locksley Hall,” in the summer, a young artist’s fancy lightly turns…
An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art
LOS ANGELES – I remember when the smoke plume from the Palisades and Eaton fires left LA in…
Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze
Alice Austen, “Trude & I masked, short skirts” (August 6, 1891); Collection of Historic Richmond Town, Alice Austen…
30 NYC Monuments of Black Americans You Should Know
Elizabeth Catlett, “Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison” (2003) (all photos by David Jacobs, courtesy David Felsen)…
For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material
The Brant Foundation’s Glenn Ligon isn’t a deep dive into the artist’s career, but it is a concise…
Museum of the American Latino Could Vanish Under Trump
The National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) and the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, DC, are on…
Rain Couldn’t Dampen the Spirit of Brooklyn Pride
You can’t spell “rainbow” without “rain.” Despite less-than-ideal weather, Brooklyn Pride Day kicked off without a hitch this…
Louvre Museum Shutters as “Exhausted” Staff Go on Strike
Thousands of visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris were stuck in hours-long lines outside the institution today,…
Preserving the Age-Old Art of Malaysian Shadow Puppetry
KELANTAN, MALAYSIA — A puppet with flowing hair and a sharp-toothed grin came soaring into view as background…
Ali Banisadr Paints a World in Calamity
KATONAH, New York — In calamity and in commotion — that’s where I begin when I visit Ali…
The Des Moines Art Center Presents Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa features more than 30 works showcasing nearly two…
National Portrait Gallery Director Quits After Trump “Firing”
Kim Sajet, who has led the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) for over a decade, has resigned from…
Indian Craft Shop Closure Leaves Complicated Legacy
WASHINGTON, DC — The Indian Craft Shop, which has presented the handmade arts and crafts of federally recognized…
LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters
Protesters with signs designed by artist Patrick Martinez in downtown LA on June 8, 2025 (photo courtesy Patrick…
Nadya Tolokonnikova Builds a Prison of Her Own
LOS ANGELES — Police State, a 10-day durational performance by activist, artist, and Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova,…
A Visual Archive of Diasporican Liberation
As a conceptual artist myself, I instinctively approached Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology (2025) with…
Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Arch Reopens After $8.9M Restoration
After nearly two years of extensive restoration, the soaring Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza…
Defining Photos From LA’s Historic Anti-ICE Protests
Flaming self-driving Waymo cars, “Death 2 ICE” spray-painted across the entrance of a boarded T-Mobile store, highway overpasses…
The Dark Side of Education
In Gordon Parks’s photograph “Radio Technicians’ Class, Daytona Beach, Florida” (1943), two rows of students gaze obediently at…
Jim Shaw Peels Back American Pop Culture’s Facade
Jim Shaw, “Large Study for ‘Origin of the Species’” (2016), pencil on paper (all photos Zach Reich/Hyperallergic) Jim…
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San Francisco Art Institute Becomes Free Experimental Studio Program
Two years ago, the once-lofty San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) filed for bankruptcy amid mounting debts, a failed…
A Trump-Musk Feud That’s Ripe for the Meme-ing
One of many Mean Girl references dominating the Musk-Trump feud feed (via X, all screenshots Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) Elonald.…
Art Dealer Daniel Lelong Dies at 92
Daniel Lelong in 2009 at Galerie Lelong in Paris (all images courtesy Galerie Lelong) Daniel Lelong, co-founder of…
Apocalypse Art Has Never Been More Relevant
William Blake, “The Whore of Babylon” (1809) (all photos Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Amid collective failures to stop…
Artist Covers Transphobic Billboard With Giant Dachshund Drawing
Weeks after the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that a woman can only be defined on the basis…
Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images
PASADENA — One fascinating thing about parenting is seeing how your children combine your mannerisms with their exposure…
Trump’s New Portrait Is as Perverse as His Second Term
Because apparently a gold-framed mugshot, chorus of New York Post covers, and raised-fist propagandist painting weren’t enough, another…
Alan Michelson’s Answer to the “Vanishing Indian” Myth
As a child, Alan Michelson often rode the T past sculptor Cyrus Edward Dallin’s “Appeal to the Great…
Four New York City Shows to See Right Now
The exhibitions this week show us how we shape ourselves in history’s image, and the other way around.…
The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: June 2025
Kick off Pride month with clues on Marsha P. Johnson’s biographer, Greek amphora nymphs, Victorian lesbian photography, a…
Tony Tasset Exposes the World’s Frayed Canvas
CHICAGO — Tony Tasset is the master of making things that are so bad they’re good. Over the…
8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month
“He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers…
A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of “Nope”
Famed anonymous street artist Banksy has broken his six-month silence this morning, claiming credit via an Instagram post…
How to Get a Read on Rashid Johnson
Once, when I was in my 20s and too much feeling the weight of being a Black man…
Joiri Minaya Upends the Allure of Exoticization
PHILADELPHIA — In a bucolic corner of the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia sits the oldest continuously operating…
Trump Says He Fired National Portrait Gallery Director Over DEI Support
Kim Sajet attends the American Portrait Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on November 17, 2019, in…
Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University
This week, Harvard University agreed to relinquish 15 daguerreotypes thought to be among the earliest photographs of enslaved…
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“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds
Pigeons are disappearing from Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, and one artist says she knows why. New York…
Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81
Brazilian photojournalist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado died at the age of 81 in Paris on Friday, May 23,…
Protest Targets Whitney Museum Board Ties After Canceled Performance
A group of protesters staged a demonstration in the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art last…
New York City Shows to See Right Now
Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking…
Why Are We Still Obsessed With Pompeii?
A bronze statue at Pompeii’s Temple of Apollo, with Mount Vesuvius visible in the background (photo by Graham…