Burning Man has removed a pro-Palestine artwork from its website days after a Change.org petition called to take it down. The petition’s authors said the work’s title, “From the River […]
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Thomas Carlyle, a Chronically Constipated Racist
George Frederic Watts’s 1868 portrait of Thomas Carlyle at London’s National Portrait Gallery (all photos Michael Glover/Hyperallergic) LONDON — “It’s too long by far!” I’m telling my barber. It’s a […]
Meet the Women Preserving the Legacies of Their Artist-Relatives
Louise Nevelson on the cover of the May 1979 issue of ArtNews with an annotated note to her granddaughter (image courtesy the Louise Nevelson Foundation) There are more artists whose […]
A Tribute to Art and Motherhood
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, “Replenishing” (2001), composition of seven Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs, 88 1/2 x 66 inches (image courtesy the artist) Mother’s Day, traditionally celebrated on the second Sunday in May in the […]
Remembering Indie Rock Icon Steve Albini
I think most people have a memory of the first time they encountered something that seemed grown up and cool. If you were a kid in the suburbs of Detroit […]
Something for Every Palate at the European Fine Art Fair
The European Fine Art Fair, best known as TEFAF, is all about decadence. Its ninth New York edition, running through Tuesday, May 14, features 89 galleries showing everything from furniture, […]
When Will the Independent Art Fair Grow Up?
The Independent is 15. Hip, chic, and so boutique, the Manhattan art fair doesn’t want to grow up. It wants to stay lean and taut, focusing on mid-size galleries and […]
RISD Gaza Solidarity Encampment Dissolves After Expulsion Threats
This afternoon, May 9, 21 undergraduate students affiliated with the Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter elected to vacate their “de-occupation” of a […]
Art Students and Faculty Rally for Palestine at Cooper Union
At least 100 demonstrators from student groups at New York City art schools gathered in Manhattan’s Cooper Square this afternoon, waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners calling for the Cooper […]
Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary
Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen’s Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A Feminist […]