Category: Arts Entertainments

Among the most striking paintings within St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum in Russia is Leonardo da Vinci’s “Madonna Litta” from around 1490. Mary, the Mother of God, is in half-profile, her […]

Art History, Visual and Performing Arts, and Graphic Design majors across the nation are associated with the highest rates of unemployment compared to other areas of undergraduate study, according to […]

Artist Shahzia Sikander’s monumental sculpture “Witness” (2023) was beheaded in the early hours of Monday morning, July 8, on the grounds of the University of Houston campus. The 18-foot-tall sculpture […]

Between 34th Street and 38th Street along Manhattan’s Park Avenue, several cast-bronze figurative sculptures are nested in the leafy malls between crosswalks, looking as bizarrely unconcerned about their missing body […]

A recently excavated Ancient Roman shrine in Pompeii revealed idyllic blue wall frescoes as well as an ample amount of oyster shells. Located on Block 10 in Regio IX, one […]

The daring bohemian downtown Manhattan of decades past is long gone — the inimitable traces of Arshile Gorky, Elaine de Kooning, and Jean-Michel Basquiat scrubbed off.  In their wake, a […]

VENICE — In “ROMANTIC IRELAND,” a multi-channel video installation produced by Eimear Walshe for the Irish Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, a figure stands amid the rough walls of […]

Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World by Chris Gavaler and Nat Goldberg (image courtesy Bloomsbury) Joan Didion famously declared, “We tell ourselves stories in order […]

Abigail Dudley, “Emmanuel” (2023–24), oil on linen, 32 x 36 inches (all images courtesy Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects) Abigail Dudley is an observational painter who can translate her subject […]

Walton Ford, “Zürichsee” (2015), watercolor, gouache, and ink (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) New York’s art world is a zoo this summer. Well, not quite, but animals populate some our favorite shows […]

CLAVERACK, New York — It is no secret that the art world can be a lonely place. There is something distinctly isolating about competing with your peers for one of […]

Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong, celebrated for her contributions to painterly figuration and for her role in Europe’s avant-garde Situationist movement, died on Saturday, June 29 in Amsterdam at the […]

American curator Norman Kleeblatt (photo by Nikolai Devera) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Norman Kleeblatt has been […]

Ari Moore is a Buffalo-based artist, teacher, and activist. (all images courtesy the artist) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders […]

Not everyone can flee the hot mess of summer in New York City — it ain’t all “what pleasure, what joy” down here, as it seems to be Upstate. I […]

Although frequently introduced as a student of Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, abstract expressionist painter Lawrence Calcagno was his own master. He was gay at a time when homosexuality was […]

If you’re struggling to do anything beyond basking in whichever air-conditioned spaces or cooling centers you can find this summer, let alone picking up a heavy text, know that you […]

Grant Wood’s masterpiece reimagined for the 2024 election season (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, all social media screenshots by Hyperallergic) President Joe Biden and convicted felon Donald Trump went toe-to-toe last […]

Activists with ACT UP and Jewish Voice for Peace carried out an art-filled action at the AIDS Memorial (photo by Alexa Wilkinson, all images courtesy Jewish Voice for Peace and […]

Upon approaching La MaMa Galleria, I knew I would be in for a treat. The gallery’s front window shows a video of Korean artist Jiwon Rhie being repeatedly slapped in […]

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. When Deborah Bright began work on her Dream Girls series in 1989, […]

‣ Kellie B. Gormly writes for Smithsonian Magazine about Edythe Eyde — also brilliantly known as “Lisa Ben” — who founded the first lesbian magazine in the US in 1947, when […]

Mayor Eric Adams and City Council are set to publish New York City’s adopted budget for the 2025 fiscal year by July 1, on the heels of a contentious year […]

Jonathan Yeo, “Sir David Attenborough” (2024), oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 39 3/5 inches (© Jonathan Yeo studio, 2024; image courtesy the artist) After raising eyebrows for painting the […]

Kay Turner in a performance promotion for the What a Witch performance series (photo collage by Vanessa Haney, all images courtesy the artist) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month […]

Caravaggio, “Young Sick Bacchus” (1593), oil on canvas, 26 x 21 inches (image via Wikimedia Commons) Due to the inherent anonymity of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and a host of other […]

Hundreds of visual and performing arts spaces across Florida were shocked to learn that Republican Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed $32 million in allocated funding for the state’s arts and culture […]

Installation view of Arlene Shechet, “Bea Blue” (2024) (photo by David Schulze, courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery) With the equinox behind us, we are in full swing of a […]

American photographer, artist, and activist Nan Goldin (photo by Max Cramer, courtesy the aritst) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders […]

Paula Allen, “Havana, Niurka” (2007) (all photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) DETROIT — The Mighty Real/Queer Detroit biennial isn’t notable just because of its dedication to LGBTQ+ representation — though that is […]

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Artist Marlene McCarty, arguably best known for her larger-than-life graphite and pen […]

Artist and gallerist Chaim Peri is among four Israeli hostages confirmed dead in Hamas captivity, per a notice from the Israeli military earlier in June. Peri, who was 79 years […]

Welcome to the 239th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists delight in the texture of oil paint, […]

WARSAW — Walking into A Tiger came into the Garden: Art of Maria Prymachenko at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw feels like entering a kaleidoscope. Hanging salon-style and […]

Philip Guston’s “Sunrise” 1979 and Martha Diamond’s “Central Character” (1983) at the Portland Museum of Art (photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) The American figurative painter Alex Katz has maintained a deep connection […]

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. In 1989, photographer Lola Flash sat on the other side of the […]

‣ For the Cut, Nell McShane Wulfhart narrates the life of Bonnie Erickson, the woman who created Miss Piggy, the Phillie Phanatic, and a number of other larger-than-life, brazenly confident […]

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — Entering Hand to Mouth, visitors are greeted by Todd Anthony Johnson’s six-minute performance video, “FIELD HOLLA” (2015). Showing the artist screaming amid a verdant wilderness setting, it […]

“The Star” from the Mixed Signals Tarot deck (all images from the Mixed Signals tarot deck designed by M Eilo; all images courtesy M Eilo) In the northern hemisphere, the […]

Like many people who grow up in Brooklyn, Adama Delphine Fawundu remembers spending much of her childhood and adolescence in Prospect Park. Yet she never recalled learning about the stories […]

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Raised in rural Kentucky, artist Jimmy Wright moved to New York City […]

It feels like art is everywhere in the city — from a new gallery in Brooklyn to an Upper East Side townhouse, and even the subway! Make sure you don’t […]

Where did early Christians come together to worship? Later tales of these gatherings focus on converts meeting within so-called “house churches.” These were described as private residences used for Christian […]

LOS ANGELES — An ad-hoc group of artists, art workers, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) students and faculty gathered outside the Hammer Museum on Friday evening, June 15, […]

In 2022, the Brooklyn-based arts nonprofit WORTHLESSSTUDIOS hosted 1-800 Happy Birthday, a posthumous tribute to 12 Black and Brown individuals killed by police. Created by San Francisco-based artist Mohammad Gorjestani, […]

On a bright, sunny day in Victorian England, a little curly-haired May Morris gleefully handed a ball of wriggling worms to her father, William. The legendary textile and wallpaper designer […]

Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. Two museums have nixed or postponed […]

Yance Ford has grappled with issues of systemic racism in his documentaries, such as the Oscar-nominated Strong Island. As the filmmaker took in the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 […]

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. “It’s so hard from this vantage point to really grasp how tiny […]

Artist and trans woman Jamie Diaz has been granted parole after serving nearly 30 years of a life sentence in a Texas men’s prison. While incarcerated, Diaz has made waves […]

Two activists from the animal rights and agricultural sustainability group Animal Rising tagged Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of King Charles III with a sticker of Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. (all […]

Joanne Greenbaum began making ceramic sculpture in 2004, after enrolling in a ceramics class at Greenwich House in New York City. By working in the medium before other artists of […]

Paul Wong in “Parade – Pedestrian Protest” (2021), as part of Pride in Chinatown (all images courtesy Paul Wong) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with […]

Large swaths of the global art world remain little known to many of us in American and European art communities. Born in Tokyo in 1948, Tamiko Nishimura deserves to be […]

Portrait of Harmony Hammond (2019) (photo Clayton Porter, courtesy the artist) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Everything […]

Welcome to the 237th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists let rhythm seep into their paintings, follow […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Early on Thursday evening, June 6, right before the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s first-ever open-call exhibition opened to the public, dozens of anti-Zionist Jewish artists and supporters crowded […]

Gaza looms large over Jenny Holzer’s new exhibition Light Line at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. And yet, the name of the besieged strip isn’t mentioned once. That’s just […]

In the old Pfizer factory building at the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Broadway Triangle in Brooklyn, The Bishop Gallery’s first-floor space comfortably bridges the gaps between access, authenticity, and ambition […]

‣ Chinatown’s Yu and Me Books is a hub for Asian-American writers, artists, and lovers of literature, and Jordyn Holman writes for the New York Times about the bookstore’s fight to […]

A dozen staffers at the University of the Arts (UArts) have filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Philadelphia arts school of violating federal labor protections after recently announcing that […]

Experts’ fears regarding Azerbaijan’s accelerated destruction of Armenian cultural heritage sites across Artsakh (also known by the Russian name Nagorno-Karabakh) have been realized in the last seven months since the […]

After a massive pro-Palestine action yielded dozens of arrests at the Brooklyn Museum last Friday, May 31, activists are decrying what they say was a disproportionate police response at the […]

French authorities have charged performance artist Deborah De Robertis over her intervention involving the tagging of Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin of the World” (1866) with the words “MeToo” at the […]

Linda Mussmann (photo by David McIntyre, courtesy Time & Space Limited) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. On […]

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Carol Ockman just can’t stop mentoring. As her partner, Peggy, rearranged a […]

Students and faculty of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts (UArts) rallied outside the school’s Hamilton Hall today, June 3, to protest the institution’s imminent closure. UArts leadership shocked community members […]

Happy Pride Month! As we mark the 54th annual celebration, which began after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York, our editors and contributors are digging into new books about […]

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Artist and architect Nishan Kazazian (all photos courtesy the artist) Nishan Kazazian […]

“I wish you well,” Gwyneth Paltrow tells convicted felon Donald Trump in a popular online meme (screenshot Hyperallergic) As we gear up for what is surely the most soul-crushing election […]

At least 20 demonstrators were arrested this afternoon, May 31, during a massive protest against Israel’s war on Gaza at the Brooklyn Museum. Over 500 activists overtook the New York […]

VENICE — While biennials have practically metastasized across the globe, the Venice Biennale is the OG — the first ever biennial that launched the whole phenomenon back in 1895. Its […]

At least 20 demonstrators were arrested this afternoon, May 31, during a massive protest against Israel’s war on Gaza at the Brooklyn Museum. Over 500 activists overtook the New York […]

Welcome to the 236th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists get back to basics with pinhole photography, […]

‣ Writer Elisa Wouk Almino, former Hyperallergic senior editor, interviews photographer Catherine Opie for the Los Angeles Times’s Image magazine about her “big-bottom girl chair,” artistic odes to queer love, and […]

HUDSON, New York — I first saw Lothar Osterburg’s work in a group show in 2022, Still Life and the Poetry of Place, at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, and ever since that […]

“Statue of a Man” (200–100 BCE or later), Ptolemaic dynasty, black basalt, 22 13/16 inches tall (image courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) will transfer […]

For this edition of Hyperallergic’s video essay column, we’re doing something a little different. Rather than the usual list of five recent web videos of note, we’re including one commercially […]

In this time of multiple global wars, genocides, and force displacements, art has a particularly important role to play in helping us be present with unspeakable violence. What’s less visible […]

LOS ANGELES — Fleeting landscapes of the natural world and the body in motion are currently tucked away on a dead-end street in an industrial area of Downtown Los Angeles. […]

Victor Pascual, “Free Palestine” (designed 2023–24), digital artwork, 1080 by 1350 pixels (image courtesy the artist) On October 13, 2023, the Red Nation, an organization dedicated to the liberation of […]

MARDIN, Turkey — As attendees mingled on the terrace of a 19th-century stone mansion during the opening of the 6th Mardin Biennial on Friday, May 10, local artist Enver Basravi moved […]

A reimagined Artforum cover by Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) urges contributors to continue boycotting the beleaguered art publication (courtesy WAWOG) The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and […]

This year’s Venice Biennale was particularly strong in terms of national pavilions, as countries negotiated the contemporary moment with decisions to foreground Indigenous and/or racialized voices, swapped with countries that […]

UVALDE, Texas — Heavy rains blanketed the small town of Uvalde, Texas, the night of the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. Uvalde resident Abel Ortiz recalled of the […]

‣ Over 100 writers are calling for board members of the Asian-American literary organization Kundiman to resign, penning an open letter that outlines the suppression of pro-Palestine views within its community. […]

A sense of gloom permeated the New York Studio School’s annual MFA exhibition. What is the middle ground between losing ourselves in depression and bottling up all our feelings? How […]

The naked body — or parts of it — appear a few times in Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art at EFA Project Space. In Dew Kim’s Till I Know […]

The word “photography,” in its literal translation from Greek, means something like “drawing with light.” The best of Ming Smith’s photographs, however, seem to draw against light. They feed off […]

Late artist Joe Zucker (courtesy David Nolan Gallery) Joe Zucker, who passed away on May 15 at age 83, once told me a story that I have repeated many times, […]

After Jonathan Yeo’s “Portrait of His Majesty King Charles III” was unveiled at Buckingham Palace on May 14, its bold and unexpected infusion of red paint made the portrait an […]

Elias Rischmawi, “Bonding Ritual, Miami” (2020) (courtesy the artist and Tunnel Projects) MIAMI — In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 treatise on architecture and memory, the philosopher wrote, […]

This moment in United States arts philanthropy is defined in part by long-overdue investments in Black, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and Native artists and organizations. The Mellon Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Wallace […]

This week, a compelling three-part limited series, Pompeii: The New Dig, premiered on PBS. Originally shot for the BBC, the docuseries follows a group of archaeologists, anthropologists, and volcanologists currently […]

Billionaire art collectors and art-world stakeholders discussed ways to get police to disband pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia University, according to chat messages obtained by the Washington Post. The messages […]

A group of School of Visual Arts (SVA) students and alumni staged a moving pro-Palestine demonstration last night, May 16, during an exhibition opening at the institution’s Flatiron Gallery in […]

A group of fine arts students at Parsons School of Design has withdrawn artwork from their BFA thesis exhibition amid an ongoing strike to pressure the New School to divest […]

In the middle of her commencement speech, actor and poet Amanda Seales stepped away from the rostrum and turned around with a flourish to show the back of her graduation […]

‣ This week marked 39 years since the Philadelphia police bombed the MOVE Black liberation group, killing 11 people and destroying dozens of homes. For WHYY, Cory Sharber reports on […]

On May 6, two feminist activists entered Centre Pompidou-Metz in France and spray-painted Gustave Coubert’s 1866 work “The Origin of the World” with the “Me Too” slogan. Artist Deborah De […]

In the months preceding its release, Legacy Russell’s Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us (2024) generated a considerable amount of literary notoriety. The curator and writer’s […]

Forge Project 2024 fellowship winners (clockwise from top left): Delbert Anderson (Navajo/Diné), Schon Matthew Duncan (United Keetoowah Band of the Cherokee Indians), Donna Hogerhuis (Stockbridge-Munsee), Lindsay McIntyre (Inuit), Mikayla Patton […]

On the night of May 6, between dress adjustments, pearl placements, and camera flashes at the controversial Met Gala, 27 protesters were arrested on the Upper East Side during a […]

Every May 15 for the last 76 years, Palestinians around the world commemorate the Nakba (Arabic for “the catastrophe”), during which 750,000 Palestinians were permanently displaced from their homelands as […]

DETROIT — Above a little snarl where Detroit’s major freeways meet in the middle of the city, a towering mural rises into view. Painted by Smug, the artwork depicts city […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The work “Prayers to Nana Buruku altar” (2017) was flagged by Providence College administrators for containing imagery offensive to the Catholic faith. (photo by and courtesy Shey Rivera Ríos) A […]

I first found out about the New York City-based artist collective Shanzhai Lyric a few years ago, after asking a passerby in Dimes Square about his “GHANEL COCO” shirt. He […]

VENICE — Tongan artist Latai Taumoepeau’s installation “Deep Communion sung in minor (ArchipelaGO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL)” features a collection of rowing machines designed to practice the motions of […]

As celebrities posed for the cameras on the Met Gala red carpet, hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters marched across Manhattan’s Upper East Side tonight, May 6, during the annual fundraiser for […]

Political cartoons abound, long-lost sculptures resurface, and strange monarchical monuments crop up in this month’s puzzle. Related Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New Yorker, The […]

GLENDALE, Calif. — By the time a product arrives in the public sphere, it often bears little trace of what it once was: A cow becomes a pricey steak, cloth […]

In his nonfiction features, director D.W. Young explores New York City through hyper-niche perspectives. 2019’s The Booksellers delved into the city’s rare art book scene, linking this community of literary […]

The New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA) fair is known as an art world stage for up-and-comers and a beacon of emerging trends. Spread across four floors in a loft-style building […]

Pro-Palestine activists staged a demonstration during the Whitney’s “Free Friday Night” event on Friday, May 3. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) The fifth floor of the Whitney Museum […]

Remember when Frieze New York was new? It feels like eons ago. Back in 2012, the import of London’s latest concept for a market moment shook up the sleepy Armory […]

Hundreds of students, faculty members, and New York University (NYU) community members marched outside of the university’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at around 12:30pm this afternoon, May 3, after the […]

A student paints outside the School of Visual Arts (SVA) on May 2, 2024. (all photos Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Student activists staged an ongoing sit-in at the School […]

The brightly colored, angular abstractions of South African artist Esther Mahlangu, inspired by the Ndebele visual tradition, captivated me as soon as I walked into the 1-54 Contemporary African Art […]

Hours before mass arrests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) late last night, April 30, a march organized by the Palestinian-led activist group Within Our Lifetime […]

Maybe it’s something in the springtime air — all the new growth and wild nature — but fantastical landscapes and creatures seem abundant in galleries this month. While Sanam Khatibi’s […]

This year, Cuba will not celebrate May Day with a parade in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution. It is only the second time since 1959 that the event has been […]

Dozens of students took over Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall earlier this morning, April 30, renaming the building “Hind’s Hall” in honor of six-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed alongside her […]

Marcelle Reinecke, “Detour” (2024), acrylic and flashe on panel, 20 x 16 inches (image courtesy the Ruffed Grouse Gallery) In his celebrated “Sonnet 18” (1609), Shakespeare writes that “rough winds […]

The Chicago-based human rights organization Justice For All has filed a submission with the International Criminal Court (ICC) arguing that the Israeli military’s partial destruction of the Saint Porphyrius Greek […]

VENICE — The 60th Venice Biennale’s theme of “Foreigners Everywhere” includes a number of communities historically overlooked in art, like folks from queer, indigenous, and immigrant backgrounds. While disability does appear […]

Faith Ringgold, “Picnic on the Grass Alone: The American Collection #12” (1997), acrylic on canvas with painted and pieced fabric (all photos Jasmine Weber/Hyperallergic) Faith Ringgold paved the way. For Black […]

LOS ANGELES — John Lithgow has an illustrious acting career going back five decades, with memorable roles on stage, screen, and TV — yet he recently decided to go back […]

At a high-traffic corner of the New York Art Book Fair (NYABF), I found myself blinking at an arrangement of potato-shaped stress balls bearing the logo of Berkeley’s Apogee Press. […]

After a stint in a soulless Midtown Manhattan space last year, the world’s longest-running photo fair returns this weekend with a 77-exhibitor lineup at the much less insipid Park Avenue […]

The Gaza solidarity encampment at the City College of New York on Friday, April 26, 2024 (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) As of 9am yesterday, April 25, some 300 City College of […]

A protester holds up a print of artist Pilar Veiga’s viral illustration in support of public education at the march on Tuesday, April 23. (all photos © Nahuel Ignacio Sánchez […]

On Tuesday morning, April 23, less than a week after more than 100 Columbia University students were suspended and arrested for protesting on university grounds, 11 members of the arts […]

The release of the English translation of the 2016 photo book Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba, with a new foreword by activist and writer Mohammed […]

Inigo Philbrick (photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) The Sony-owned production company Bad Wolf has secured the rights to a forthcoming memoir documenting the rise and fall of disgraced American […]

Caravaggio, “Death of the Virgin” (c. 1601–06), oil on canvas, 12 1/10 x 8 feet, held at the Louvre Museum (image via Wikimedia Commons) When the water-logged, bloated corpse of […]

VENICE — Beyond the Giardini’s national pavilions and the central exhibition at the Venice Biennale, visual culture abounds throughout the streets and walls of the city, which is covered in […]

Bruce Yonemoto, “Untitled, 1” (2023) in the exhibition Scratching at the Moon” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (courtesy the artist and O-Town House, Los Angeles) From the title […]

“Birds flying high, you know how I feel …” The opening line of the song “Feeling Good,” popularized in the mid-1960s by Nina Simone as an anthem of Black joy […]

Spyglass, part one of New York University’s (NYU) annual MFA thesis exhibition, opens with a work that showcases its own making. Robin Gammons’s “Foldings” (2024) feel like old memories, often […]

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” blared outside the Guggenheim Museum in New York City today, April 19, as around 20 art handlers and facilities workers used their lunch break to […]

Soaking in the din of skateboards, stoners, shrieks, and street performers, a black turtle bean gradually germinates in the palm of Jemila MacEwan’s hand in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park. Beginning […]

VENICE — I arrived at the Venice Biennale preview on Tuesday morning, April 16, a bit later than many of the art world’s modern-day Medicis and their professional-managerial class. It’s […]

‣ Edward Thomas offers an analysis of the Civil War in Sudan for the Middle East Research and Information Project, tracing the region’s sociopolitical and cultural climates back to the […]

VALLADOLID, Spain — The story of Spanish art in the 20th century has long been dominated by male artists working in abstraction. But a new wave of museum exhibitions in […]

Swifties are swarming The Grove in Los Angeles in a days-long hunt for clues about Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department (2024). In advance of the album’s […]

This month we’re featuring a poet who paints, a painter who tapes, a legendary feminist, and two sculptors who have protested colonial powers in the United States and Canada. While […]

Her face has gazed over midtown Manhattan traffic, hordes of tourists, and guests coming and going from the famed Plaza Hotel for over a century. In Saint-Gaudens’s “William Tecumseh Sherman” […]

Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard by Bridget Quinn, published […]

It’s difficult to imagine a time when images of our faces were not only rare and expensive, but treated almost as sacred objects. But in 15th- and 16th-century Europe, portraits […]

Faith Ringgold, a larger-than-life visual artist, quilter, storyteller, and activist, has passed away at age 93. Her death was confirmed by her family and ACA Galleries, which has represented her […]

Much as one might visit a prospective apartment at various hours of the day to gauge the quality of light, I staked out Shana Moulton’s solo exhibition Meta/Physical Therapy at […]

TULSA, Okla. — What would you do if you thought it was your last day? Philadelphia-based artist Lex Brown asks this question time and time again in her hour-long science-fiction […]

A sketch by Almallah in Border Wisdom (2023) (all images © Ahmad Almallah, 2024; courtesy Winter Editions) In his second book of poems, Palestinian scholar Ahmad Almallah seeks a language […]

I keep hearing people call the Whitney Biennial “safe.” It’s usually art-world people and critics, who tend to say it every two years, as if the museum has ever intentionally […]

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered exceptionally preserved frescoes depicting legendary subjects of the Trojan War myth in a banquet hall on a known residential and commercial block in the ancient […]

‣ Elsa Delmas and the investigative team at Le Monde visualized the physical impact of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, detailing the schools, hospitals, and places of worship that have been […]

Big Apple brainiacs can test their knowledge of New York history and geography this week at one of the city’s largest trivia events. After a four-year hiatus, the Panorama Challenge […]

LOS ANGELES — It does not take an art degree to understand that context changes meaning. While the challenges of being an artist anywhere are worthy of discussion and making […]

IRVINE, California — Inside the Beall Center for Art + Technology, a trio of office chairs huddle together, as if holding a meeting. Their gathering is short; after a few […]

In 1969, sending art over the telephone seemed far-fetched. It required extensive back and forth coordination, specialized engineers, and a great deal of time. Once all the necessary equipment was […]

Millions looked skyward today, April 8, as the moon eclipsed the sun from Mexico’s Pacific Coast to Canada’s eastern shore. Those who traveled to the around 115-mile-wide path of totality […]

LOS ANGELES — Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s, a vast survey exhibition of silheom misul, or Korean Experimental art made in the 1960s and ‘70s, comes to the […]

LONDON — The Wellcome Collection is an unusual place. I mean that sincerely as a compliment. It’s a rare example of a scientific institution doing something genuinely bold and creative […]

Archibald J. Motley, “The Liar” (1936) (all photos Zoë Hopkins/Hyperallergic) In the galleries of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I stood just feet […]

A group of anti-Zionist Jewish artists is withdrawing artwork they submitted for the forthcoming California Jewish Open at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco, citing the institution’s “inability […]

‣ Setting the record straight on overwhelmingly White male architectural history, writer Prinita Thevarajah delves into the work of three women of color who left an indelible mark on the field […]

Armed groups ransacked the National Library of Haiti yesterday, April 3, endangering its priceless archival collections pertinent to the Caribbean nation’s history and cultural heritage.  The raid on the library, […]

There was a time when I was quite excited to see Arcmanoro Niles’s paintings that utilized glitter to render the hair on the heads and faces of Black figures. Both […]

LONDON — There is something instantly recognizable about a bent knee or an upturned hand, universal gestures of supplication or sublimation that span cultures and religions. For his solo exhibition, […]

If you’ve ever tried to photograph a solar eclipse, you know it’s tricky. (edit Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic, eclipse photo via Wikimedia Commons) I’d hazard a guess that few of us are […]

A simmering controversy surrounding a “blasphemous” art exhibition in the town of Carpi in northern Italy reached a boiling point on March 28, when a masked man slashed a painting […]

Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of the Artist” (1887) (photo by Adrien Didierjean; all images courtesy National Museum Cardiff) Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of the Artist” (1887) (photo by Adrien Didierjean; […]

A signed Andy Warhol screenprint of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong is mysteriously missing from a California collection. The 1972 artwork was last seen in a secure vault located in […]

This month’s selections of art to see in and around Los Angeles examine the human condition through a range of lenses, from the corporeal to the psychological. Clayton Schiff’s oddball […]

In “Northern April” (1928), the great American poet, playwright, and feminist Edna St. Vincent Millay writes: “O April, full of blood, full of breath, have pity upon us!” Millay’s dramatic […]

‣ The weird sales practices of Birkin bags are the stuff of legend and nightmares, so it’s interesting that there’s a class-action suit against Hermès over those same sales practices. For […]

After jointly presenting a show of 1913 Armory Show exhibition artists this past fall, Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857 return this spring with a collaborative exhibition to recognize the […]

Nits and fleas bedeviled the viscous skin of the 14th-century German Dominican mystic Henry Suso, who, slick with puss and piss, filth and shit, hadn’t bathed for a quarter century. […]

Welcome to the 227th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists represent the unseen, engage with nature even […]

Two museums bookend Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, a 2021 archival anthology edited by Howie Chen about the eponymous and influential activist network from New York City. The first museum […]

Elizabeth Okie Paxton, “The Breakfast Tray” (c. 1910), oil on canvas, 21 x 17 inches (all images courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Elizabeth Okie Paxton, “The Breakfast Tray” (c. […]

Artist Richard Serra, whose monumental inhabitable sculptures warp our sense of space and time, died at his home in Long Island in New York on Tuesday, March 26. He was […]

LOS ANGELES — The Austrian conceptual artist VALIE EXPORT engages with a cityscape’s concrete like it’s a playground. In her “photo-graphic” series Body Configurations (1972–76), she bends, folds, and stretches […]

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has apologized for preventing two visitors from entering the institution with a Palestinian keffiyeh earlier this month. In a statement to […]

The European Graduate School is very pleased to announce the course schedule for its 2024 sessions in Saas-Fee, Switzerland (July 29–August 25), and Valletta, Malta (October 2–16).  Join us to […]

On a sunny but cold Sunday afternoon, hundreds of pro-Palestine activists unfurled a massive quilt on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, calling for […]