Category: Arts Entertainments

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 — […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

“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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

‣ 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

‣ 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

‣ 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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,” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Minutes before the United States launched a deadly missile campaign in Yemen that reportedly killed 53 people and wounded 89, including multiple children, on March 15, the Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey […]

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 […]

Lawyers representing Venezuelan migrants who are being held in immigration custody, or who have already been deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador for alleged gang affiliation, say their clients […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A call that could easily have gone unnoticed for the Statue of Liberty to be repatriated to France has generated a media swarm over the sculpture and sparked a war […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Los Angeles has cemented its status as a global art capital over the past two decades, with the arrival of several new museums, not to mention the Los Angeles County […]

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 […]

BARCELONA — Erika Lust has built a career at the intersection of art and erotica — so it’s no surprise that after establishing herself as a trailblazer in feminist pornography, she […]

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 […]

The expansive front gallery of the Drawing Center may get the most attention, but the smaller back space and the lower-level one have hosted many quietly intriguing exhibitions. Ericka Beckman: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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% […]

MIAMI — A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease and the loss of almost $40,000 in grant money promised by the city after […]

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 […]

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 […]

San Francisco art museums may lay off staff and reduce operating hours to meet the city’s budget reduction proposal as workers elsewhere fear a wave of cost-cutting measures impacting cultural […]

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 […]

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 […]

Artists, cultural workers, and historians are mobilizing in protest of the targeted arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian refugee raised in Syria who served as a negotiator between Columbia University […]

After weeks of rallies against expected layoffs at the Brooklyn Museum and even a special oversight hearing at City Hall, District Council 37, one of the unions representing employees, said […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Deborah Kass, left to right, “Making Men 4” (1992) and “Puff Piece” (1992) Deborah Kass created the Art History Paintings out of frustration at not seeing herself in the halls […]

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 […]

Welcome to the 275th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists revel in the freedom of southern Indiana […]

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 […]

When audiences entered the so-called Oval Gallery at Lisbon’s Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in October 2018, the only thing they could see was an inexplicable expanse of […]

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 […]

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, has acquired the archives of Italian-born photographer Gusmano Cesaretti, who has documented the communities and built environment of […]

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) […]

Despite what Punxsutawney Phil and the mercurial weather forecast say, winter is officially over — and if you’ve kept up with our Spring New York Art Guide, you just might […]

As I made my way up the winding path to DeKalb Gallery, a squat aquarium of a building on the Pratt Institute quad in Brooklyn, I could tell that Collective […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

SANTA FE — There must be thousands of tiny, pastel-colored, overlapping butterfly stickers in Amaryllis R. Flowers’s “Wayfinder” (2025). The irregularly shaped work on paper, featured in the artist’s positively […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

PITTSBURGH — In 1935, a 26-year-old largely self-taught painter named Gertrude Abercrombie accompanied her friend, the writer Thorton Wilder, to a lecture at the University of Chicago in her native Hyde Park. […]

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 […]

Street artist Winston Tseng was behind an anti-Elon Musk ad that led to a viral frenzy when it was installed various in sidewalk ad spaces within a mile of the […]

The fan kicked on with a loud drone. A giant red hand flopped forebodingly over the tape meant to protect artworks from viewers, before lunging at me with an accusatory […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Street Stories – Graffiti and the Legacy of Martin WongLee Quiñones, Wendy Olsoff, Sean Corcoran, & Hrag Vartanian (moderator) Monday, March 10, 7pmExplore the exhibition starting at 6pmThe Museum of […]

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 […]

Amy Sherald, “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” (2014) (© Amy Sherald, photo by Joseph Hyde; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth) A sweeping exhibition of works by the acclaimed American […]

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, […]

The Conru Art Foundation has launched the Seattle Prize Masters Fellowship, a new two-year immersive educational program to cultivate early-career artists dedicated to classical, representational painting. The Seattle Prize includes […]

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, […]

This year, the Vilcek Foundation chose to double the prizes it awards in the arts and humanities, expanding its support of immigrant art professionals into two categories: Visual Arts and […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

‣ 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 […]

Apply today for September 2025 admission. The IDSVA PhD in Visual Arts: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory is a research-based, low-residency PhD for creative thinkers. As a true nomadic institution, […]

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 […]