Category: Arts Entertainments

In Pompeii’s ruins, buried beneath three meters of volcanic ash, was a two-millennia-old mosaic concerning the transitoriness of all things. Now exhibited in the National Archeology Museum in nearby Naples, […]

“I hate gay halloween. What do you mean you’re Chappell Roan and a passenger seat?” by Motti and Britt Migs (photos courtesy Motti) Is it your polyester Dorothy from The Wizard […]

LONDON — Wearable objects resembling empty skins, replete with openings, sleeves, eye holes, and zips, populate late artist Nicola L.’s long-running sculptural series Pénétrables (c. 1960–2018). Many of them were […]

LOS ANGELES — After LA County officials issued a controversial call for public art to decorate recreational vehicle (RV) encampment sites from which unhoused people have been displaced, over 150 […]

Audience engagement is never an afterthought for Indian artist Jitish Kallat, who often plays with participatory and public art in his work. In his 2007 installation “Public Notice 2,” shelves […]

Artist Carol Cole Levin has donated over 270 artworks by more than 140 artists — including herself — to the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina (UNC), […]

Textiles become prints and prints become textiles in Line & Thread, a new exhibition at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Across parallel walls and in display […]

In his 2022 book Model Minority Masochism, scholar Takeo Rivera argued that the influx of Asian immigrants to the United States after 1965 and the trial of Vincent Chin’s murderers […]

Artist Bing Davis opens the Democracy and the Arts launch at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation with a libation. Davis is curating an exhibition of artists’ responses to the 1964 […]

On view now at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History features the ambitiously scaled, hyperrealistic charcoal drawings of internationally acclaimed artist Robert Longo.  Over his long […]

We really thought we’d seen it all in the final weeks leading up to a historic presidential election — that is, until a bronze-colored sculpture memorializing the fabled turd on […]

The much-despised and desired banana that split the art world is headed to the auction block next month, where it’s estimated to sell for upwards of $1 million, according to […]

The death of a family member brought Miguel Martinez, a painter and teaching artist living in New York City, back to Mexico earlier this year for the first time since […]

Over 25,000 artists and cultural workers and counting have signed a new petition with a simple, one-line message: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a […]

A documentary photographer who said “Free Palestine” while accepting an award from the German Photographic Society (DGPh) earlier this month is facing backlash from members of the organization, who are […]

LOS ANGELES — “Maybe ‘apocalypse’ is the opportunity we are looking for, even if we don’t quite know it yet.” This message from Santa Clara Pueblo sculptor Rose B. Simpson […]

Kibong Rhee, “Mistygraphy – The Emptiness” (2024), acrylic and polyester fiber on canvas, 73 3/4 x 73 3/4 inches (187.3 x 187.3 cm) (photo Charles Roussel, courtesy the artist and […]

Gowanus Open Studios returned for its 28th edition this weekend with more than 400 artists, organizations, and businesses opening their doors to the public. Organized by Brooklyn nonprofit Arts Gowanus, […]

Leonardo Dog Vinci was a little camera shy around his masterpiece, the “Momma Lisa.” (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) Thousands of people and pups alike eagerly flooded a blocked-off Avenue A […]

Artists Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, Mark Bradford, and the late Ruth Asawa are among 20 artists who received the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts at the White […]

LONDON — The Decay of Beauty. The Beauty of Decay, a compact but ambitious exhibition at Colnaghi Gallery, examines the concept of beauty and its inevitable decay across pan-historical, pan-geographical, […]

Communities on the Cranberry Isles, an archipelago off the coast of Maine named for its yearly cranberry harvests, have lived at the border of marine life for generations as boatbuilders […]

British photojournalist and educator Paul Lowe has been identified as the victim of a fatal stabbing in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles last weekend. The award-winning photographer, who […]

Hours before a scheduled screening of a documentary about the 1948 depopulation of the Palestinian city of Lyd, Israeli police blocked a Jaffa theater from showing the film last week. […]

Lisa Schiff and Adam Singer (photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images) Manhattan art advisor Lisa Schiff, who was accused of embezzling her clients out of millions in a multi-year scheme, pleaded […]

In the thick of a variety of free art events in New York City this weekend, it’s worth mentioning that one of the most accessible happenings — Art in Odd […]

Left: “The Demolition Squad” by Ingo Arndt (Winner, Behavior: Invertebrates) (© Ingo Arndt, courtesy the Natural History Museum in London), right: Daniele da Volterra, “David et Goliath (verso)” (c. 1550s) […]

‣ Video games, which I was never allowed to play as a child, may finally be shedding their notoriety and gaining serious consideration as both works and mediums of art. Celine […]

SANTA FE — Monsters have long been of interest to artists and non-artists alike. They embody our fears, uncertainties, and even desires. So perhaps it’s no surprise that the figure, […]

Posted inComics Why did Jerry Lewis spend so much energy concealing The Day the Clown Cried, even in death?  Tagged: Comics Ari Richter is a visual artist, cartoonist and professor. […]

TAGHKANIC, New York — Immersed in the rolling hills and fall colors of Moh-He-Con-Nuck lands, Forge Project, a Native-led nonprofit cultivating Indigenous leadership in arts and culture, welcomed the fall […]

As mid-October rolls around, the chill in the air signals the season of somber reflection. There’s much to consider in the world right now, and little to inspire joy. Among […]

François Boucher, “Pastoral with a Couple near a Fountain” (1749) (© The Trustees of the Wallace Collection; courtesy the Wallace Collection) LONDON — Flora Yukhnovich is, in short, a wunderkind. Bypassing […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — What does it mean to find queer joy in an emergency? For Holly Hughes, it starts with embracing euphoria. Gender Euphoria is the title that Hughes […]

LOS ANGELES — Who’s afraid of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man? In Ghostbusters (1984), the bulbous, white mascot for a fictional marshmallow brand appears as one incarnation of the villainous Gozer, a […]

Vincent van Gogh’s “Chair with Pipe” (1881) at London’s National Gallery (image via Wikimedia Commons) The Chair This raw, unpainted, left-hand edge, With multiple nails in-driven, I regard as a […]

From mural art to fashion and music, the vibrance of the Chinese diaspora seeps from every pore of Manhattan’s Mott Street and showcases the community’s culture. Now, the city seems […]

A neurological study commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, found that viewing artworks in person elicited an emotional response 10 times stronger than viewing those same […]

Baby Moo Deng may only be two months old, but it’s never too early to learn a lesson in sharing the spotlight. Allow me to bring some pesto to the […]

‣ Despite not having gallery representation, Renée Cox has been pushing artistic boundaries for decades. Photographer Gioncarlo Valentine interviews her for the New Yorker and looks back at the breadth of […]

It’s a good time for complexity in art. In both conceptual and material terms, our favorite shows of the moment refuse to take the easy route. While younger artists Nengi […]

The Musée du Quai Branly in Paris committed to removing the term “Xizang” — which the Chinese government uses in place of “Tibet” — from labels for relevant artifacts in […]

Four visual artists — Justin Vivian Bond, Tony Cokes, Ebony G. Patterson, and Wendy Red Star — are among the 22 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowship, announced today, Tuesday, […]

DES MOINES, Iowa — Loss is intrinsic to the experience of being Black in America. This country’s centuries-long history of racial violence against Black people has resulted in a collective […]

Portrait of Richard Mayhew in his studio (all images courtesy the Estate of Richard Mayhew and Venus Over Manhattan, New York) Renowned landscape painter Richard Mayhew died at the age […]

The New York Counter Film Festival (NYCFF) is running concurrently with the New York Film Festival this week as part of a boycott of the official event in protest of […]

If spring is the season of new beginnings, then fall is the opposite: the season of reflection. Let’s look back on 20 years of Corbett vs. Dempsey, that deliciously odd […]

Two months after the stock market crash of 1929, an American Gold Rush heiress named Eila Haggin McKee purchased a Paul Gauguin still life called “Flowers and Fruit” (c. 1889) […]

On view at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico through March 17, 2025, Tristan Duke: Glacial Optics centers on a series of large-scale photographs of Arctic landscapes, made with a […]

When I arrived at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan on Thursday, the opening day of the Affordable Art Fair (AAF), a long line spilled out of the venue’s entrance and […]

Over the past month, a Thai baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng has captured the hearts of millions. For many of us, images of the plump creature have filled our […]

We live in the age of the splintered self. Never before have we been afforded so much agency to decide who we want to be, and to become it. And […]

Scientists may have found a way to measure real-time electrical activity in cats’ brains for the first time — using tiny crocheted hats fitted with gold-plated electrodes. While a wool […]

If you’re not looking for it, you might miss a small illustration of the Statue of Liberty in Yolŋu leader and artist Djambawa Marawili’s 2019 eucalyptus bark painting “Americalili Marrtji […]

I sent my first Moo Deng meme via Instagram on September 3 at 10:15 pm, before the Thai baby pygmy hippopotamus took the world by storm (which means I’m better […]

August Schoefft, “Maharaja Sher Singh seated on his father’s golden throne,” Lahore, Punjab or Delhi (c. 1841–42) (© Toor Collection; all images courtesy the Wallace Collection) LONDON — Ranjit Singh had […]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Massachusetts — After descending the stairs at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, visitors are welcomed into the gallery space by a monumental reproduction of a harrowing scene […]

LOS ANGELES — Simultaneous exhibitions of an individual artist’s work can be hard to pull off successfully. The shows’ conceits might contradict one another, or differing curatorial visions can cloud […]

Carlos and Fernando Estrada-Lopez are social workers in Los Angeles, but in Gabriel García Román’s Queer Icons, they are a pair of haloed saints locked in an embrace, surrounded by […]

The J. Paul Getty Museum kicked off its PST ART: Art & Science Collide event series last Sunday, September 15, with a fiery collaboration with Chinese pyrotechnics artist Cai Guo-Qiang […]

A sobering celebration unfolded in London’s Trafalgar Square on Wednesday, September 18, when the latest Fourth Plinth commission by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles was unveiled. Comprised of plaster face casts, […]

Barnard College’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to protecting academic freedom, published a statement on Wednesday, September 18, condemning the school’s new […]

Opening this Saturday, September 21, the third iteration of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) aims to acknowledge multiple truths at once. Fittingly titled Precarious Joys, this year’s edition will […]

TORONTO — Director Lou Ye, a member of the sixth generation of Chinese cinema, a movement of filmmakers creating subversive, unvarnished depictions of urban life in post-Tiananmen China, returns five […]

The second of two bodies buried in lead sarcophagi recovered from beneath the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has almost certainly been identified two years after its discovery. Discovered during […]

Some museums in the United States are public and others are private — everyone knows that. But what, exactly, is the difference? The answer to this seemingly straightforward question reveals […]

A Michigan art dealer accused of swindling seniors out of $1.6 million in a photography consignment scheme was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Wednesday, September […]

The Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran, Iran, is missing 30 paintings from its collections after they were removed from the premises earlier this summer under the pretense of […]

When I ventured out to see Aubrey Levinthal’s first New York exhibition in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I described her as a figurative painter “trying to […]

SAN FRANCISCO — If the Bay Area’s Church of Ambrosia had a Christ-like icon, it would be a psychedelic mushroom, and if it had a promised land, it would be the […]

Around noon on Saturday, September 7, I found myself in a nondescript classroom at El Museo del Barrio giddily singing Happy Birthday to Oshun and Yemayá, two orishas of the […]

LONDON — The story of a nation’s origins can be so much messier than the day-to-day of its politics. Things get papered over, then leak out between the cracks.  In […]

An unexpected tragedy unfolded at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow, Scotland, when a 55-year-old man died on the premises after a fall from a balcony on Wednesday, […]

Stamps Gallery is proud to present Kelly Church & Cherish Parrish: In Our Words, An Intergenerational Dialogue, a major exhibition that centers the subjectivities of two contemporary Indigenous artists whose […]

Doug Aitken’s Naked City at Borusan Contemporary presents a selection of seven artworks spanning from 2006 to 2024. Curated by Jérôme Sans, the Istanbul show focuses particularly on cities, as […]

Though he died at the age of 37 due to AIDS complications, David Wojnarowicz left a powerful legacy of avant-garde artmaking, passionate LGBTQ+ and disability activism, and withstanding friendships — […]

Books on our reading list this fall, including Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation and Mark: Sonya Kelliher-Combs (photo Hyperallergic) The art world has begun its unofficial fall semester, and as […]

LOS ANGELES  — For more than six decades, Ed Ruscha has been an innovator in exploring the relationships between words, images, and materials. Drawing inspiration largely from the unique landscape […]

After I visited Surrealist at Tibor de Nagy, Jimmy Gordon’s debut New York exhibition, I did some research to learn more about who the artist was. The press release told […]

Affordable Art Fair NYC returns for its 36th edition this September 25–29 with 77 galleries from New York, across the US, and around the world. Held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in […]

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Director Glenn D. Lowry has announced that he will step down from his post in 2025, bookending three decades at the institution’s helm. The later […]

The Noguchi Museum in New York City has terminated three gallery attendants who said they would not comply with a controversial new rule banning staff from wearing the Palestinian headscarves […]

LONDON — I hate to say it, but there are far too many Henry Moores in the world. Too many on shameless public display in Toronto. Too many at Tate […]

LOS ANGELES — In Conversation with the Cosmos is the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of late Filipino artist David Medalla, who passed away in 2020, and the only […]

This month’s list encompasses comprehensive surveys of established artists and stellar solo shows from the next generation, marking the art world’s return from the leisurely dog days of summer. Chicana […]

Less than six months ago, I was sustaining myself on dining-hall rice and beans and living in a dorm room decorated with a couple of Frida Kahlo prints on the […]

“Are you here for the art show or the fashion show?” an event staffer asked me as I approached the entrance to Lower Manhattan’s Pier 36 for this year’s Art […]

For much of the day on Thursday, September 5, a wave of pleasant anticipatory energy resembling the first day of school rippled throughout New York City’s largest art fair, the […]

Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue aims to amplify the collective strength of contemporary artists. The show at Albuquerque Museum includes large-scale installation, sculpture, video, performance, and […]

​​‣ The world of paleontology is juicier than you might think, and New York Magazine‘s Kerry Howley gives us the lowdown on the latest clash between two researchers about the asteroid […]

After a brief break for construction, Pioneer Works is back to accepting applications for our 2025 Visual Arts and Music Residencies! The Technology Residency, however, has now shifted to an […]

CHICAGO — Over the span of merely 10 months in the Edo period, a Japanese artist who went by Tōshūsai Sharaku created almost 150 ukiyo-e prints of actors in kabuki […]

Raúl Gonzo is known for his colorful, quirky, highly saturated images that contain satirical and humorous nods to childhood, consumerism, Pop art, television game shows, Alfred Hitchcock films, and standards […]

A painting attributed to the Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt went under the hammer for a record-breaking $1.175 million ($1.41 million including the buyer’s premium) after it was unearthed from […]

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications to its premier fellowship program, the oldest and largest in American art. Scholars from any discipline who are researching […]

Carrie Rickey cried when her professor, artist Manny Farber, played Agnès Varda’s film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) for the class. It was 1971, and she had not known […]

BRISTOL, England — Donald Rodney saw the world through metaphor. He suffered from sickle cell anemia throughout his life, meaning he endured pain, a difficult treatment schedule, and reduced mobility. […]

Every year on the first weekend of September, millions of Americans flock to beaches and barbeques to soak up the last bits of summer, taking advantage of the country’s annual […]

The shattered jar was thrown off its base at the Hecht Museum. (image courtesy Hecht Museum) As the adage goes: You break it, you pay for it. Unless, that is, […]

The history of the Salon, the juried exhibitions that defined European art trends from the 17th through the 19th centuries, can be told from the perspective of the artists who […]

Welcome to the 249th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists marvel at open spaces, listen to church […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Hema Shironi was, rather unusually in Sri Lanka, raised both Catholic and Hindu. Due to her father’s career as an (outspoken) government official in the early […]

Seed art by Mary Beth Leone-Getten at the Minnesota State Fair (all photos Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic) FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota — From a rotating gallery of butter sculptures to a hall bursting […]

‣ It’s been a big year for Venezuelan ceramicist and painter Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, who celebrated her 95th birthday and just got her first museum retrospective. For the Los Angeles Times, […]

A 27-foot-long container truck featuring a rotating display of artwork will hit the road next week from New York City to embark on a cross-country exhibition about the myriad facets […]

Next Thursday, September 5 in Central Park, artist Edra Soto will unveil a new sculpture from her Graft series (2013–), made from corten steel and terrazzo and inspired by the […]

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in Massachusetts presents an exhibition of small paintings by California artist Mitchell Johnson from September 4 through 15. The gallery is open […]

DIJON, France — “In a fabric, the intersection of thread during its weaving establishes an unbreakable pact between the two opposed and distinct entities, the warp and the weft, and […]

The National Arts Club (NAC) is thrilled to launch its 2024–2025 exhibition season with Jazz Greats | Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection. Loaned through the Bank of […]

British art historian and renowned curator David Anfam died at the age of 69 in London last Wednesday, August 21, as confirmed by the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado. […]

From the cell to the pixel, TONO x PAMMTV Selects explores how bodies transform across natural, supernatural, and virtual spaces. The evocative streaming exhibition from Pérez Art Museum Miami is […]

Dindga McCannon, “Rasta Band” (c. 1990), mixed media quilt, dimensions variable (image courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London) The Armory Show is set to take over the Javits […]

‣ Darcie Little Badger, a Lipan Apache novelist, pens a personal essay in the Texas Observer about the repatriation of an elder’s remains to her tribe, which is not federally recognized. […]

Market goers at Santa Fe Market (photo Erin Joyce/Hyperallergic) SANTA FE — As the sun beat down on attendees, this year’s Santa Fe Indian Market felt like a hot one, […]

The art director of a family-friendly balloon art experience that traveled from Tel Aviv to Manhattan’s Upper East Side for the summer posted violent anti-Palestinian rhetoric on social media last […]

LOS ANGELES — Just after dawn on a recent weekday morning, at the edge of a nondescript parking lot somewhere in LA County, I met three members of Operation Under […]

Ready to take your practice and creativity to new heights? SVACE has the resources and expertise to help you go to the next level. With a diverse range of more […]

In times of change, art has the power to move us to see, reconsider, and reinvent, and New York City is fertile ground for some of the best art in […]

The Washington Post eliminated its weekly In the Galleries art column effective immediately, as first reported in BmoreArt and confirmed by Hyperallergic.  In an email sent to several DC-area art […]

Lavinia Fontana, “Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a Self-Portrait” (c. 1592–1604), 44 x 34 5/8 inches, held in private collection (image via Wikimedia Commons) Possibly because of the absence […]

Art on Paper returns to Pier 36 in New York City from September 5–8, featuring paper-based presentations from leading domestic galleries alongside important programs from around the world. Join us […]

TORONTO — Star Trek’s vast transmedia universe often reminds me of the fandom’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” (IDIC) philosophy.  Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry originally intended IDIC as a Vulcan […]

A year ago, amid curatorial research considering the missing datasets in the hidden work of mothering, I got stuck on the story of a 42-year-old mainframe computer. Edgar, the main […]

Rap battles, Indigenous symbols reclaimed, Esther Pressoir’s alma mater, and more in the last mini puzzle of the summer. Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New […]

Steve Wasterval’s mini painting of Transmitter Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, acrylic on canvas, 2 x 1 1/2 inches (~5 x ~3.8 cm) (all photos by and courtesy Steve Wasterval) There […]

As a bittersweet reminder that our scalding summer is coming to a close, the fall art fair season is turning the corner shortly in New York City, with a steady […]

LONDON — Shouts ring out, voices chant, hands clap, and children’s laughter bursts from every direction. If you close your eyes in the middle of Francis Alÿs: Ricochets at Barbican […]

The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, will remain closed indefinitely after suffering damage related to Hurricane Beryl, per an announcement Wednesday, August 14.  Gale-force winds and torrential rain impacted the […]

Italian officials and community members have decried the racist defacement of a mural depicting athlete Paola Egonu, who helped Italy clinch its first gold medal in women’s volleyball at the […]

During the 19th and 20th centuries, government programs in both the United States and Canada forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families, relocating them to residential boarding schools to “civilize” […]

‣ Late poet June Jordan played an essential role in pushing Audre Lorde and other fellow Black feminist writers to commit to anti-Zionism, even to her personal and professional detriment. Scholar […]

Mark Zuckerberg reveals the new sculpture of his wife, Priscilla Chan. (screenshot Hyperallergic via Instagram) If you had all of the money you could ever dream of and then some, […]

A group of 10 visual artists can proceed with copyright claims against four companies using text-to-image generative AI, a California judge ruled Monday, August 12. The artists filed a class-action […]

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich confirmed a forthcoming settlement expansion near a UNESCO Heritage Site in the Occupied West Bank, detailing plans in a statement on X today, August […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Justo ahora (right now), María “Lulú” Varona’s second solo show at Embajada gallery, presents cross-stitched and embroidered works that meditate on local concerns such as femicide […]

Over the course of a seven-decade career, the one constant in Brenda Goodman’s practice has been drawing. The fluidity of her line parallels her thought process and openness to taking […]

MALIBU, Calif. — On July 20, 1969, artist Lita Albuquerque and her friend were driving through the Tunisian Sahara Desert when their car broke down. Together they walked toward a […]

The opening frames of the new Gladiator II (2024) trailer introduce us to Macrinus (played by Denzel Washington), the wealthy owner of a gladiatorial troupe and an arms dealer. The […]

“‘Older’ is a euphemism, just like ‘elder’ and ‘senior’ and ‘golden’ — these are all terms that soft-pedal around a word of denigration,” said Arden Eversmeyer, the late founder of […]

PARIS — The late Hungarian-born artist Vera Molnár found patterns everywhere: in architectural details, in optic art, even in dreams. Spanning a remarkable eight decades of her 99-year life, Speak […]

Decades ago, I lived in an apartment only a few minutes’ walk from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. I have never loved the huge basilica, nor the triumphalism it proclaims […]

Marin Kosut once founded a gallery in an abandoned pay phone shell in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Now, the writer, sociologist, and curator has released her latest book, Art Monster: On the […]

The first time Ron Tarver got on an airplane was at age 24 to interview for a staff photographer position at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Next thing he knew, the paper […]

PHILADELPHIA — Do you remember who taught you to type on a desktop QWERTY keyboard? There’s a chance it may have been the fictional character Mavis Beacon, a made-up entity […]

Harvard University will not remove Arthur M. Sackler’s name from two of its campus buildings, concludes a 15-page report by a committee assigned to review the decision. After years of […]

‣ Wafa Ghnaim penned a must-read essay on the history and legacy of Palestinian garment and craft traditions, including tatreez embroidery. She writes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Perspectives magazine: […]

PHILADELPHIA — At the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia last weekend, a new feature documentary directed by Blackfeet (Niitsitapi/Siksikaitsitapi) siblings Ivan and Ivy MacDonald alongside filmmaker Daniel Glick won the […]

Fifty years after Philadelphia’s “Young Meher” statue was first erected by Armenian Americans on the United States Bicentennial, the heroic figure will be at the center of a new permanent […]

Workers at the Storm King Art Center (SKAC) in New York’s Hudson Valley passed their first-ever union contracts in late July after eight months of negotiations.  Workers in the Visitor […]

Police arrested a New York City independent journalist this afternoon, August 6, for reportedly filming the vandalism of several Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes in mid-June, the New York Police Department […]

What on earth happened to the cherubim of Soria’s Hermitage of the Virgin of Mirón? Soria Patrimonio, a group dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage in the Spanish city, […]

Russian anti-war activist and cartoonist Aleksandra “Sasha” Skochilenko is now free from a seven-year prison sentence as part of the historic prisoner swap that released Wall Street Journal reporter Evan […]

“We know that most gatherings of artists, curators, dealers, and critics at museums, galleries, art societies, and socials are without us,” Emma Amos wrote in a 1990 essay for M/E/A/N/I/N/G […]

She had just died, and I couldn’t stop looking at a photograph of her. She held me there: in her Random House office in 1974, outstretched arms, open palms, eyes […]

An individual was arrested yesterday, July 31, in connection with the vandalism of Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak’s home earlier this summer, the New York Police Department (NYPD) confirmed to […]

Welcome to the 245th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists toggle between studios, find solace in desert […]

Pepón Osorio with Zayvionne Bristow, Jacob Rodriguez, Lynoshka Santa, Coralis Torres, Chelsey Velez, Kiara Villegas, Dante Quiñonez, and Amy Donghee Oh, installation from reForm (2014–17), mixed media installation, dimensions variable […]

Those last days of summer can be an opportunity to explore artists we might otherwise overlook in the summer group shows, and to revisit a few of our favorite exhibitions […]

August 2 marks the centennial anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth. As one of the most influential voices to come out of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement, his words bore witness […]

‣ Beyond their architectural and social history, it turns out porches played a key role in early American epidemiology, the New Yorker’s David Owen explains: In warm weather, flies and other […]

Pérez Art Museum Miami’s newest hybrid exhibition, Sea Change, weaves together themes of artificial intelligence, simulation, and identity to reflect South Florida’s position between climate crises and new technologies. Anyone […]

Scientists say they have discovered the pigment that put the “Golden” in the Dutch Golden Age in Rembrandt’s paintings. New research into the paint Rembrandt used to represent glistening embroidery […]

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games kicked off last Friday, July 26, with an extravagant opening ceremony along the Seine featuring a diverse medley of artistic events. From vocal performances […]

New York City’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is repatriating the remains of 124 Native individuals and 90 Native cultural items as it faces increased pressure to return the […]

August can be a slow month in the art world, but the 10 shows below offer some visual and conceptual delights before the big fall openings. UPEND gathers new perspectives […]

A performance involving French singer Philippe Katerine as Bacchus at the Olympics opening ceremony was incorrectly interpreted as a recreation of “The Last Supper.” (photo by Ludovic Marin – Pool/Getty […]

I definitely felt there was a bit of a wink behind the choice to explore questions around nature and queerness amid a highly manicured garden on the edge of one […]

Art and literature work in tandem to fortify myths of single-handed brilliance, creating a reverence for the proverbial “solitary genius.” Romantic depictions of the ancient author toiling away at his […]

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans was established to support exceptional immigrants and children of immigrants in pursuing graduate education in the United States. By awarding up […]

Enzo Lefort’s portrait of French long jump and triple jump Paralympian, “Arnaud Assoumani” (2023), photo on DIBOND (all images © Enzo Lefort unless otherwise noted, courtesy Olympic Museum) As the […]

Left: One of Anne Imhof’s six “Wish You Were Gay” banners prior to the attack (photo by Marcus Tretter); right: Damages to one of the banners outside of Kunsthaus Bregenz […]

In August 2021, the United States ended its disastrous 20-year occupation of Afghanistan with a suitably slapdash withdrawal. The Taliban, which had been expelled from power in 2001, retook control. […]

The sports world may be on the edge of its seats as we draw close to the 2024 Olympics in Paris. But the “Olympics of the art world” is already […]

Police were called to Manhattan’s Greene Naftali gallery on Tuesday evening, July 23, after an autonomous group of activists disrupted a book event for an exhibition on the late German […]

United States Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of protecting funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) during a House floor […]

WASHINGTON, DC — In protest of Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United States Congress today, Wednesday, July 24, thousands of activists flooded the streets in massive rallies against the Israeli […]

A new digital catalog raisonné will document the creative output of artist Florine Stettheimer, who imbued a theatrical whimsy into her intimate paintings of high society life in New York. […]

Egyptian police detained satirical cartoonist Ashraf Omar at his home in Cairo in the early hours of Monday, July 22, prompting outcries from journalist advocacy organizations and human rights activists […]

The 2024 Upstate Art Weekend was a large, sprawling affair that mapped over 140 spaces in the Hudson Valley region, from Westchester in the south to Albany in the north, […]

Joanna Piotrowska, “A Most Gentle Touch” (2019), gelatin silver print, 11 4/5 x 9 2/5 inches (© Joanna Piotrowska; courtesy the Princeton University Art Museum) PRINCETON, New Jersey — In Carolee […]

Art writer, museum guard, and artist Dereck Stafford Mangus (photo by Christopher Myers, courtesy the Baltimore Museum of Art) Dereck Stafford Mangus, a beloved Baltimore-based artist, writer, and cultural worker, […]

Berlin-based artist Rheim Alkadhi says she will pull her work out of London’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) if the center does not take accountability for allegedly retaliating against workers […]

Brian Eno has long resisted being the subject of a documentary. Filmmaker Rob Nilsson recently told the New York Times that the shooting of 1993’s Words for the Dying was […]

TORONTO — In its second iteration, the Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) connects art-making with ever-shifting movements in the region’s flawed formation. […]

Welcome to the 243rd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists return to pieces they made in school, […]

The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in Manhattan’s Washington Heights announced plans to launch a new global hub for the research and preservation of works by Spanish Romantic artist Francisco […]

“All hail our overlord…” (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, photo via Getty Images) China’s Shanghai Museum is not kitten around about Ancient Egypt.  The public museum situated at the People’s Square […]

Katherine Bradford “Siberian Shamanism” (2024), acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (photo Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic). For anyone who loves color and dynamism in art, some of the best shows right […]

Let’s face it — even the most diehard New Yorkers need a break from the stench of sidewalk garbage and the sweltering humidity of the subway in the summer. Following […]

Corey Comperatore was seated on the bleachers behind the stage at the Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last Saturday when a gunman opened fire from the roof of a […]

Van Gogh knew a thing or two about ear wounds. (post by Roshan_Rinaldi via X, all screenshots Hyperallergic) “Trump is the man,” said M, who works at the bodega near […]

Hilary Pecis, “Mango” (2024), acrylic on linen, 55 x 44 inches (image courtesy the artist and Timothy Taylor Gallery) There are two things in this world that I love above […]

BERLIN — “Sun Tunnels” (1973–76), a monumental sculptural installation in the Utah desert, so overwhelmingly dominates discussion of Nancy Holt’s oeuvre that it took my walking through an entire survey to […]

BALTIMORE — Joyce J. Scott’s half-century retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art is an invitation to wander in her dreams. Those of us who accept that invitation will likely […]

What follows is an excerpt from a recent conversation between David Ebony and Michael Lobel. David is a writer, critic, and curator; Michael is a professor of art history at […]

A little after noon on Tuesday, June 18, Brazilian artist Ilê Sartuzi entered Room 68 of the British Museum and secretly replaced a silver coin minted during the English Civil […]

One of the most iconic works of ukiyo-e is Hokusai’s 1814 print “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife,” which depicts a woman amid a sexual liaison with two octopuses. It […]

Esther Inglis, excerpt from Proverbs of Solomon (1599) (all images courtesy the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) When was the last time you sat down to write a […]

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Käthe Kollwitz, “Self portrait” (1891–92), gouache on paper (all photos Alice Procter/Hyperallergic) Käthe Kollwitz is an artist’s artist. There’s a chance you’ll recognize some of her more famous works without […]