Year: 2024

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 […]

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.  […]

’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 […]

‣ 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 […]

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 […]

Italian authorities have seized numerous well-preserved artifacts dating back to the third century BCE that were initially plundered from an Etruscan necropolis in the central region of Umbria, according to […]

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 […]

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC) seeks to tap the well of local talent for a large-scale public art installation along Flushing Avenue in mid-2025. Applications are now open […]

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 […]

The Smithsonian Institution removed the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, DC, following years of staff complaints of tumultuous leadership, according to a Washington Post report […]

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 […]

ISTANBUL — When curator Alper Turan and his collaborators from queer and feminist groups around Turkey discuss plans for their upcoming Istanbul exhibition, they have more to consider than which […]

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 […]

‣ 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]