Category: Arts Entertainments

Mrs. Rabbit pours tea for Peter Rabbit while her other children watch. (1902–1907) (© Victoria and Albert Museum; image courtesy Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.) The famed children’s author and […]

This week, the New Museum in New York City announced its temporary closure through early 2025 for a site expansion that has been in the works since 2008. The project […]

Thousands of Palestinian families are looking to evacuate into Egypt as the Israeli military has forced over a million civilians to the edge of the Gaza Strip and vowed to […]

New Red Order: Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Adam and Zack Khalil (Ojibwe) with Riley Hooker, The World’s Unfair series (2023), posters on paper; placard posters: 24 x 36, inches; subway sheet: […]

‣ Powerhouse photorealist painter and longtime New York artist Audrey Flack, now 92 and still painting, talks with Curbed‘s Wendy Goodman in her Manhattan apartment, chock-full of ephemera, art, and […]

A new bill introduced in the United States Congress yesterday, March 20, aims to establish a Smithsonian museum of American Jewish history. The legislation, which would help transfer ownership of […]

Sculptor Chavis Mármol has never owned a car, but that’s never inhibited his drive. Earlier this month, the 42-year-old Mexico City-based artist (who travels largely by bicycle) dropped a nine-ton […]

Lesia Khomenko, “I’m a Bird II” (2023–24), acrylic on canvas, 47 1/4 x 35 7/8 inches (all photos by Michael R. Lopez and courtesy Voloshyn Gallery) Lesia Khomenko, “I’m a […]

LOS ANGELES — Summer Wheat’s Fertile Ground is a lushly mystical garden. Featuring brightly colored large-scale paintings and three sculptures, her third show at Nazarian / Curcio showcases her attention to […]

Over the recent Lunar New Year weekend, I attended the opening and panel discussion for the exhibition Scratching at the Moon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The […]

The Rubin Museum’s newest exhibition, Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now, is a contemporary group show of 32 artists from the Himalayas, Asia, and diaspora, whose artworks are shown in dialogue with […]

Posted inCrosswords Look out for pink dolphins and Louis XIV in this maximalist mini crossword. Tagged: Crossword Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New Yorker, The […]

Posted inSponsored Exhibition Announcement Organized by a team of curators passionate about hair, this show at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Connecticut recognizes that everyone has a hair […]

Bree Gilliam, “There Goes the Neighborhood” (2022), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches (courtesy the artist; image courtesy the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives) Bree Gilliam, “There Goes the […]

Intermingling land, sea, and sky with fragments of domestic interiors, Charlotte Schulz’s dreamscapes are framed by unusual atmospheric events and supernatural lighting with no horizon to anchor them. It seems […]

Damien H. Ding, “IM Pei Dreaming” (2023), egg tempera on aluminum, 36.875 x 30.875 inches framed (all images courtesy Steven Zevitas Gallery) Damien H. Ding, “IM Pei Dreaming” (2023), egg […]

While a TikTok ban looms in the United States, we decided to dedicate this week’s edition to what we culled from the video-sharing social media platform for your viewing pleasure. […]

First Look is the Museum of the Moving Image’s annual celebration of experimental cinema. This year’s edition features an intriguing assortment of films that remix archival materials, blend nonfiction and […]

Patrick Moore will be resigning as director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, effective May 2024. In a statement today, March 15, Moore said his departure was due […]

The United States House of Representatives unanimously voted yesterday, March 12, to move forward with a bill that could result in a nationwide ban of TikTok if its owner, the […]

Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest, guest curated by Melissa E. Feldman, is on view now through June 30 at the Museum of Craft and Design […]

As the Whitney Museum’s signature event, the Biennial is a highly anticipated exhibition that often acts as a barometer of trends and ideas percolating in global art communities, as told […]

Pratt opens its doors, inviting visitors into its gallery spaces on the Brooklyn campus and Pfizer Building to explore the diverse range of engaging work at shows by graduating MFA […]

Mark Rothko, “Yellow Band” (1956), oil on canvas, 86 1/10 × 79 1/2 inches, Sheldon Museum of Art (all photos Anthony Majanlahti/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Mark Rothko’s work has come to […]

Posted inSponsored Event Announcement North America’s oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival presents screenings online and in-person from March 26 through April 7. From top left to bottom right: A […]

Over a dozen artists and UrbanGlass workers withdrew their work from a group exhibition at the Brooklyn institution after its board of directors voted to remove a Palestinian staff member’s […]

As a curator, writer, and artist, my work is grounded in storytelling. Contextualizing the work of artists past and present for broad audiences is an incredible responsibility; arts administrators play […]

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 organizers, artists, and film workers gathered in Hollywood today, March 10, to call for “no Oscars during genocide” amid the ongoing siege and bombardment […]

‣ For the New Yorker, Manvir Singh takes a deep dive into Dune’s fictional language, or “conlang” (and why the Hollywood adaptation curiously erases many of its Arabic influences): Although […]

This spring, SITE Santa Fe presents three exhibitions featuring the works of Carmen Herrera, Arturo Herrera, and Erin Shirreff. Arturo Herrera and Erin Shirreff’s exhibitions are on view through May […]

Posted inSponsored Exhibition Announcement Japan Society explores the origins of Zen Buddhism over four centuries of work from painter-monks, including celebrated Buddhist master Hakuin Ekaku. Left: Sengai Gibon “Kanzan and […]

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat has resigned as the institution’s galleries remain closed since February 15, following a pro-Palestine action led by eight […]

Members of the activist group Palestine Action spray-painted and slashed a portrait of former British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour on view at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. The protest action […]

Approximately 30 demonstrators disrupted the opening of Israeli artist Michal Rovner’s exhibition Pragim at Manhattan’s Pace Gallery tonight, March 7. Accusing the artist of ignoring the reality of Palestinians and […]

Sarah Grilo, “America’s going…” (1967), oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 26 inches (© The Estate of Sarah Grilo; image courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.) Among the 17 paintings by artist […]

Next year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, yet the world still finds itself in uncertain circumstances, rampant with war and unjust violence. The Japanese-American […]

Sheida Soleimani, “Noon-o-namek (bread and salt)” (2021), archival pigment print, 62 x 45 5/8 inches (all images courtesy the artist unless otherwise noted) To hear Iranian-American artist, educator, and wildlife […]

Art collectors Lorenzo Legarda Leviste and Fahad Mayet have withdrawn quilt works by Loretta Pettway from an exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre in protest of the arts organization’s alleged repression […]

Posted inSponsored Exhibition Announcement With landscapes by contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with Hudson River School paintings, this show is in its final weeks at New-York Historical Society. […]

Posted inCrosswords Infamous affairs in art history, Harlem Renaissance icons, New York’s beloved escapee owl, and more art clues to puzzle over this month. Test your knowledge of Harlem Renaissance […]

Phillip Allen’s paintings are paradoxes that have stayed with me ever since I first saw his work in 2013 at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. As I stated in my review […]

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when you finish one art book, a dozen more pop up in its place. That’s where we come in with a list of titles […]

LOS ANGELES — “I have a deep skepticism of the art market, with its structure predicated on privilege, wealth, class, and race,” artist Jennifer Wofford told Hyperallergic. Despite her reticence, […]

LOS ANGELES — In pouring rain, a group of 20 unaffiliated cultural workers gathered to protest the United States’s continued funding of Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Citing Frieze partner Deutsche […]

LOS ANGELES — When I heard that the latest performance from dance collective Volta was going to explore the subject of home, I thought it would be about a global […]

Spring is finally peeking through the cold and clouds and New York galleries and museums are in full bloom with great shows. This month we’re highlighting some artists’ artists — […]

LOS ANGELES — There’s a perennial booth rule at Spring/Break Art Show: “No white walls.” This directive gave the warehouse space in Culver City the aura of a migraine without […]

LOS ANGELES — It’s my fourth rodeo at Felix Art Fair, which sets up its booths inside the poolside cabanas at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. It’s the second biggest event happening […]

A screenshot from the “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” website (left) and a photo from the actual event (right) (screenshot Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic, photo by and courtesy Stuart Sinclair) A screenshot from the […]

Gazan artist Fathi Ghaben died on Sunday, February 25 from health complications after Israeli authorities refused to give him permission to leave the besieged region to access medical treatment. He […]

A Welsh man has accused arts and craft retail chain Hobbycraft of racial profiling him after staff at the store’s Cardiff location refused to sell him spray paint. The incident […]

As an artist-curator whose practice is focused on death and dying, I’m deeply invested in the work of my peers. Many of us share an ongoing process of reclaiming our […]

Every year, Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown hosts the city’s biggest celebration of the Lunar New Year in an elaborate parade that weaves its way through the historic New York neighborhood, abound […]

In a curatorial coincidence, three current exhibitions across lower Manhattan are addressing the ecological devastation of the Amazon, raising awareness of historic and present-day extractive practices, as well as their […]

Front (left) and back (right) of Annibale Carracci and students, “The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalen / Sketches of figures” (c. 1585–1600), oil on panel on front; black chalk, charcoal, sepia […]

Albrecht Dürer, “Self-Portrait at 28” (1500), oil on lime, 26 2/5 x 19 1/5 inches; held by Alte Pinakothek, München, Germany (image via Wikimedia Commons) Albrecht Dürer, “Self-Portrait at 28” […]

CHICAGO — Black women in general experience the world differently from those who are not Black and female. It’s a truth that seems almost too obvious to acknowledge. And yet, […]

Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 “Chair With Pipe,” on view at Britain’s National Gallery in London. (via Wikimedia Commons) The National Gallery Photographi How to grapple with London these days, when […]

Thousands of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organizers and allies marched over several blocks toward the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, February […]

The average pedestrian on a city stroll is more likely to notice the tall, flowering trees they see above them than the remnants of trunks no longer there. Photographer Alexa […]

New York City’s spring art fair season is almost upon us, and this year’s lineup promises another busy few months. The Affordable Art Fair kicks off the madness on March […]

‣ Reporting for New Lines Magazine, Matthew Petti finds out that a fanatical Israel settlement is being funded by suburbanites on Long Island: A lot of money is at stake. An […]

Greece Culture Minister Lina Mendoni lambasted the British Museum after the Parthenon Marbles were used as a “backdrop” for a runway show during London Fashion Week. Mendoni told the Telegraph that […]

In my time presenting Chicano/Latino/Latinx prisoner art in museums, visitors have expressed enthusiasm that is frequently coupled with confusion over the symbolism they encounter. Many find the signage impenetrable or […]

Yale University has issued an official apology in response to findings related to the school’s historical ties to slavery. The February 16 statement from Yale President Peter Salovey and Joshua […]

LOS ANGELES — In just over a week, three art fairs will be popping up throughout Los Angeles: Frieze at the Santa Monica Airport, Felix at the Roosevelt Hotel in […]

BEVERLY HILLS — When Joey Terrill tested positive for HIV in 1989, he assumed he had only a short time to live. In the 1980s, contracting AIDS was considered a […]

LONDON — “No, not that way,” the young man behind the press table tells me as I head toward the usual entrance to exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery. “That door […]

“He’s acting like he wants to buy me,” a flapper scowls at her shady landlord, her glossy black bob trembling. “I’d rather be thrown in prison.” The first silent film […]

Eight artists defaced their own artwork on display at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) during a pro-Palestine demonstration yesterday evening, February 15. Two of the artists alleged […]

NEW YORK — Nearly three years ago, on March 16, 2021, a gunman killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women, in a series of shooting incidents in Atlanta-area […]

Today, February 16, the curators of the Berlinale international film festival’s Forum Expanded program joined artists’ expressions of solidarity with Palestine and called for a ceasefire in Gaza in the […]

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has become home to three new art fairs over the past few years, including multi-national Frieze, swanky hometown hotel affair Felix, and DIY venture Spring/Break. […]

Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory may be the most romantic of New York City’s art fair venues. The historic building boasts a cavernous 1880 showroom more akin to a turn-of-the-century train […]

Two stubborn misconceptions that persist in American media about women who change the world are that they are (a) Western, and (b) self-identified feminists. This year’s Sundance film festival offered […]

‣ KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, reported that Nkechi Diallo, formerly Rachel Dolezal, lost her job over her OnlyFans account. 2024 is turning out to be another doozy, isn’t it? She was […]

Arts Council England (ACE), a governmental funding body for the promotion of the nation’s arts sector, has informed its grant recipients of new guidelines outlining that any activity that “might […]

A clay model shows a couple kissing. The work is dated approximately 1800 BCE, originating from Mesopotamia. (© The Trustees of the British Museum; image courtesy Troels Pank Arbøll) How […]

Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted a performance by Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof on Saturday, February 10, twice interrupting the 100-hour-long reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amid “flyover country,” as it’s colloquially and insultingly referred to, in an unendingly flat city nicknamed “Cowtown,” the Ohio State University (OSU) erupts as an archetypal college […]

Everyone deserves a good death. This is a common phrase used in the deathcare field. It speaks to the humanity needed in end-of-life support, and the reality that not everyone […]

If paño arte is the private-facing practice of artists serving time in penitentiaries across the United States, then artepaño encompasses the afterlife of the artifact. Discarded by intended recipients, paños […]

Artist Danielle De Jesus grew up near the intersection of Jefferson Street and Knickerbocker Avenue in a Puerto Rican household in Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood that has steadily gentrified since […]

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan unexpectedly closed its galleries to the public at around 3:45pm Saturday, February 10, after over 500 pro-Palestinian protesters took over the building’s […]

From reframing how the art world sees art made in prison to Indigenous print design, we’re excited to share what our five curatorial fellows have been working on over the past several […]

‣  After a speaker shared the title of his talk on Gaza for a London Review of Books lecture series, the Barbican backed out of hosting the event altogether. Lanre […]

Death is one of life’s few universal experiences. As long as people are born, people will die. And as long as people have died, artists have played an integral role […]

I first encountered paño arte, intricate ink or pencil drawings on handkerchiefs created by incarcerated Chicanos, as a boy in south Texas. My older cousin had received a letter from […]

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) drew criticism online on Sunday, January 21, after its Director-General Eli Eskozido posted an Instagram story depicting Israeli soldiers onsite at a storeroom in Gaza […]

The Year of the Dragon commences on Saturday, February 10, marking a new cycle in the lunar calendar. The event is celebrated with week-long festivities in China; here in New […]

While being escorted out of the museum, two organizers from For Our Liberation continued to distribute their flyers to visitors during the First Fridays event. (all images courtesy For Our […]

BERLIN and PARIS — In recent years, impending ecological apocalypse has spurred a number of contemporary artists to visualize fears of an environmental collapse. Yet it’s also inspired artists to […]

Posted inCrosswords Try your hand at this crossword with a special focus on must-see shows in New York City this spring, from zines to public art. From lines of light […]

This month, we’re turning to books that spark questions and crack open new possibilities, with digital culture on our minds as always, and photography looming large as a tool for […]

“MY WORK HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY FAITHFUL TO ME,” reads an emphatic text in a 1997 print by Joan Snyder. It might be a banner, as well, for ComeClose, her exhibition […]

Walking into Company Gallery in Soho late last year felt like walking into a faerie wonderland. During a casual Wednesday I entered in to find artist TM Davy with a […]

Barrow Parke, “Shapes in Time” (2022), acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (image courtesy the artists and JDJ, New York and Garrison) Barrow Parke, […]

Onassis AiR invites artists, curators, designers, theater makers, activists, writers, choreographers, performers, architects, creative coders, filmmakers, and other practitioners working in any discipline, from anywhere in the world, to apply […]

A man died after falling from the Tate Modern building in London on Friday morning, February 2. In a statement shared with Hyperallergic, the city’s Metropolitan Police said they responded […]

There’s nothing like springtime in New York City, blooming with color, people, and things to do. Museums, galleries, and public art come alive as locals and tourists mingle in plazas, […]

From Pointillism to stippling, Ben Day to halftones, the compilation of dots to construct an image can be traced through myriad examples in art history. But what about the medium […]

‣ There’s a cottage industry for everything: ‣ Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts, and Jeffrey Watumull wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times suggesting that there is “false promise” in ChatGPT […]

Contemporary printmaker and designer Lisa Hunt, who was celebrated for her intricately precise gold leaf artistry and expanding studio practice, passed away from Leiomyosarcoma at her home in Maplewood, New […]

1. Pacita AbadBasco, Philippines, 1946-2004, Singapore 2. Mariam Abdel-AleemAlexandria, Egypt, 1930–2010 3. Etel AdnanBeirut, Lebanon, 1925–2021, Paris, France 4. Sandy AdsettWairoa, New Zealand, 1939. Lives in Hastings, New Zealand 5. […]

Wilder Alison’s knit kite (all images courtesy This Long Century) Wilder Alison’s knit kite (all images courtesy This Long Century) Wilder Alison’s knit kite (all images courtesy This Long Century) […]

Artemisia Gentileschi, “Judith and her Maidservant” (1618–19), oil on canvas, 44 x 36.61 inches (image courtesy Uffizi Gallery) MADRID — In the Book of Judith, the titular Jewish widow seduces […]

Visual artist, musician, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson is the latest target of Germany’s crackdown on speech critical of Israel. After accepting a professorship at the Folkwang University of the Arts […]

“When I sued Richard Prince more than seven years ago, it was hard to imagine I’d be, along with Donald Graham, part of these history-making judgments finally holding Prince accountable […]

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The story of the Brazilian art movement Generation 80 is often told as a return to painting: rather than a definitive break with the hegemony of […]

The past few years have been busy for multidisciplinary Anishinaabe, French and Canadian artist Caroline Monnet, from completing a feature film in 2021 to 11 exhibitions in 2023 — of […]

The World Photography Organization announced 20 finalists for the youth and student categories of its annual competition, the Sony World Photography Awards. This year’s shortlisted projects range from intimate snapshots […]

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has canceled an exhibition focused on the legacy of art historian Michael Fried’s landmark 1965 show, Three American Painters, months before its opening. […]

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City will shutter two expansive galleries showcasing Native objects tomorrow, January 27, and cover seven additional display cases, according to […]

Taqralik Partridge has departed from Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), becoming the second Indigenous curator to exit the Canadian museum’s Indigenous and Canadian Art department within two months. Partridge’s […]

‣ For History Today, Isabella Rosner tells the story of Annie Parker, a 19th-century artist who was frequently incarcerated and crafted detailed embroidery using her own hair as a thread: Between […]

Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher are cheerleaders of the Hudson Valley, a growing art scene that flowers with galleries, artist-run spaces, and established and newly opened contemporary museums and university […]

Carl Andre, the mid-20th century Minimalist sculptor whose legacy is clouded by allegations that he murdered Cuban artist Ana Mendieta, died this morning, January 24, in a Manhattan hospice facility […]

Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto has been named vice president and chief curator of the New-York Historical Society (NYHS), marking the first time a Native person has served on the leadership […]

There’s a slightly unreal feeling to January, as we settle into the new year following the holiday rush. With new movies, shows, and such coming at a slow pace, here […]

Malavika Rao, “dream home” (2023), gouache on paper, 29 x 22 inches, one of the works withdrawn from the MFA show at UTA Artist Space (image courtesy the artist) LOS […]

BRISTOL, England — Elias Sime’s large, multipaneled works gleam like aerial views of cities caught in the evening sun or undulate like topographical diagrams of mountains and rivers. On closer […]

Most of the time that Tomashi Jackson is creating art, she says that she doesn’t know what the final product will look like. Instead of aesthetics, she is more focused […]

Karachi-born conceptual artist Rasheed Araeen’s Islam and Modernism encourages Muslim artists and scholars to learn from the Islamic history of ideas pertaining to modernity in lieu of a Eurocentric discourse. […]

I was surprised how soon James Siena had his second exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, following his first in late 2022. When I learned that the exhibition was devoted to […]

Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a place-based, durational award that aims to support visionary arts practitioners, is now accepting applications for its 2025-2027 cohort. The fellowship encourages established creatives of any medium […]

Low-ResidencyA truly nomadic institution, the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) fuses interactive online education with intensive global residencies. This means that throughout the three-year course of […]

“The Simpsons predicted it” is by now such a popular adage that there are lists upon lists for apparent Simpsons predictions, from the rise of the US’s 45th president to […]

Blake, a successful musician, has recently escaped rehab to return home. The safety of his house is soon disrupted by a slew of unwelcome guests — an insistent delivery worker, […]

‣ Programming around a new Rothko exhibition in DC aims to illuminate the artist’s musical influences, including Mozart. Michael Andor Brodeur reports for the Washington Post: But there’s been less exploration […]

Leaders from over 30 arts institutions across New York City are urging Mayor Eric Adams to restore funding to the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). The coalition published a letter […]

One of Rose Marasco’s goals in her photographs is to chronicle “the actual and symbolic significance of everyday household objects,” according to a press release for a 2004–5 show at […]

A camera captured a man parked outside Brent Sikkema’s residence. (video courtesy Empresa de Segurança Gabriel) Security camera footage captured outside Brent Sikkema’s residence in Rio de Janeiro in the early […]

Italian authorities are investigating junior culture minister and art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, accused of owning and displaying a 17th-century painting that was allegedly cut from its frame in a heist […]

LOS ANGELES — Judy Chicago’s most famous work, the elaborate place setting known as “The Dinner Party,” literally created a place for women at the proverbial table. But Chicago’s goal […]

OXFORD, England — “God giving birth.” This phrase, which titles one of Monica Sjöö’s best-known and most controversial works, is written in red capitals across the bottom of the painting. […]

Posted inCrosswords A hint for the first mini art crossword of the new year: 2- and 3-Down are both too damn high. Tagged: Crossword Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword […]

Alexandra Rubinstein, “The Venus Trap” (2023), menstrual blood on canvas, 40 x 40 inches (image courtesy the artist and Kravets Wehby Gallery) Alexandra Rubinstein, “The Venus Trap” (2023), menstrual blood […]

LONDON — The National Gallery has brought together an oil painting and pastel version of the same composition, known as “The Lavergne Family Breakfast,” by Genovese-born artist Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702–1789) […]

Joyce Jeffrey’s photo of Annie Chapati for her 2010 series Knot Bad (all photos courtesy the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History) What does it mean to be […]

Only one year ago, Twitter (now X) announced that paid users on the site could set an NFT as their profile picture. Douchebags rejoiced, as their three favorite things — […]

Posted inSponsored Opportunities NYC-based artists who identify as AAPI are invited to submit outdoor banner designs for the museum. The winner will receive a $3,500 honorarium. Artist June Shin, winner […]

Hundreds of artists and cultural workers around the world signed a petition calling to boycott German cultural institutions in response to the nation’s “McCarthyist policies” targeting critics of Israel’s violence […]

In 1969, private art collector, philanthropist, and arts advocate Roy R. Neuberger promised 300 paintings and sculptures as the founding gift for a new museum that would be established to […]

Artist Samia Halaby (photo via Wikimedia Commons) Over 1,300 people have signed a petition urging Indiana University at Bloomington (IU) to reinstate a canceled retrospective of Palestinian artist Samia Halaby. […]

William Matthew Prior, “Mrs. Nancy Lawson” (1843), oil on canvas (© Shelburne Museum; image courtesy the Shelburne Museum) William Matthew Prior, “Mrs. Nancy Lawson” (1843), oil on canvas (© Shelburne […]

Shepard Fairey poster based on an image taken by Palestinian photojournalist Belal Khaled in Gaza on November 8, 2023 (all images courtesy Unmute Gaza) An international street art movement featuring […]

‣ For BBC, journalist Ismail Einashe speaks with artists who’ve been displaced amid the war in Sudan and their fight to maintain their practices: Despite this warm welcome by Kenya’s art […]

Musée de la Villa les Camélias in Cap d’Ail, France, presents La révélation de Meyreuil, an exhibition of 50 small paintings by Bay Area artist Mitchell Johnson, on view from […]

Sandro Botticelli, “The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist” (“Madonna of the Rose Garden”) (c. 1468), tempera and gold on poplar panel, 35 3/4 x 26 […]

What’s a New Year’s resolution list without some art books in the mix? For our first art reads of 2024, we bring you several titles that break the mold and […]

“Funny how plastic never seems to go away, except for when you want it to stay,” Paola Antonelli, senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), wrote in a […]

Many people dream of building an enduring creative legacy, one which will outlast them and forever imprint itself into the annals of human culture. They rarely consider the drawbacks of […]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is deaccessioning a rare oil painting of George Washington, which could sell for as much as $2.5 million at a Christie’s auction […]

LOS ANGELES — A planned art museum in Las Vegas hopes to establish itself as a major cultural center, succeeding where other Sin City art spaces have failed, through a recently […]

LONDON — True to the zeitgeist of championing women in the arts, 2023 museum programming has consciously put female artists front and center: Marina Abramovic was the subject of the […]

Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox each […]

An edition of Koloman Moser’s “Frommel’s Calendar” (c. 1912) at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (© Museum Associates/LACMA) New Year’s Day may signify the end of a much-needed holiday […]

Planning on sleeping in on Public Domain Day? Well … Wake up and smell the unbridled access to another novel from Virginia Woolf, some of André Breton’s Surrealist text, an […]

‣ The Maya Train, a highly contentious project, has officially opened in Mexico. Andrea Sachs explains the railway’s threats to the local landscape and uncertain future for the Washington Post: Environmentalists, […]

In Hyperallergic parlance, “powerless” conjures a very specific status. Historically, our Powerless 20 list has shone a light on those who exist outside of an art world that lionizes the […]

The five-pointed parol has long been a symbol of the holiday season in the Philippines. The star-shaped lanterns are crafted from materials ranging from paper to shells, and often light […]

In the midst of a hyper-charged news cycle throughout 2023, we still managed to see a lot of art and celebrate creativity in all its glorious permutations. We asked Hyperallergic […]

See for yourself why Pratt is one of the top 10 art and design colleges in the world! Our experienced and dedicated faculty will support you and a cohort of […]

A portrait of Pope.L (photo by Peyton Fulford, courtesy Modern Art London) Artist Pope.L, who worked across the interdisciplinary fields of performance, installation, and sculpture, died suddenly in his Chicago […]

This month, the world lost the extraordinary gallery owner Margarete Roeder, known as one of the sharpest eyes of the post-war art world in New York. She passed away on […]

Well, 2023 was quite a year. For our part, we are proud of our reporting and the critical lens we brought to the world of art, and that we found […]

Posted inSponsored The School of Visual Arts in NYC offers a diverse range of over 200 in-person and online courses, and more than 10 artist residency programs. Marja Saleva (Artist […]

LOS ANGELES — In The American Way of Death, first published in 1963, author Jessica Mitford critiqued the United States funeral industry for undermining the dignity of the deceased and […]

On a crisp December morning, Seeta Chiang loaded around 20 artworks by various Chinese artists on a small truck. The pieces included illustrations, photography, and sculptures all inspired by last […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Every few months, a custodian at Greg Lamarche’s elementary school in Queens would climb up to the roof and throw all the tennis balls and frisbees that […]

Left: Marie Ucci, “The Shape of Dreams” (2023), acrylic, canvas, dryer lint, felted wool, dried fruit and vegetables, leaves, ceramic shards, wood, plastic, embroidery thread, wire, feathers; right: Suzie Sims-Fletcher, […]

In London, a new anti-war artwork by the British street artist Banksy was stolen less than an hour after he authenticated it on Instagram earlier today, December 22. Footage circulating […]

In the 1960s the Hudson River coastline below Chambers Street was the site of deserted and dilapidated docks. As the landfill that would be developed into a new neighborhood — […]

With Christmas upon us, many observers of the Christian holiday commemorate the season with reconstructions of the famed Nativity scene, depicting the birth of Jesus Christ. From early two-dimensional renderings […]

It’s time for a holiday edition of our column of new and noteworthy video essays! Granted, none of these videos are holiday themed; it’s just coming out in mid-December. This […]

‣ If you couldn’t make it to the epic Vermeer retrospective earlier this year at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam … well, good news! You can visit it virtually with this 360 […]

LONDON — Armies attack, parry, bludgeon, obliterate, all in relentless pursuit of their pitiless goals. As do artists. Artists do not pussyfoot either. Art too can be, and often is, […]

The first known painting by Vincent van Gogh to depict the outdoors is joining the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art thanks to the executive producer of Law & […]

PRINCETON, New Jersey — As I wander through the solo exhibition Threading Memories / MiKyoung Lee, I feel a rising wave of affection and an urge to hug one of […]

Did you enthusiastically agree to and then completely forget about your friend’s white elephant gift exchange? Are you scrambling to find a meaningful present for your significant other that doesn’t […]

Posted inCrosswords From stolen brass instruments to Bronze Age gender-bending sculpture, this month’s mini art crossword packs a lot in a compact grid. This month: Stolen brass instruments, dropped consonants, […]

LOS ANGELES — Long before reality television series like the ever-popular Naked and Afraid, true crime shows, and WWE and MMA extravaganzas entertained millions with the suffering (whether feigned or […]

David Diao loves pure abstract painting as embodied by the highly revered work of Barnett Newman and Kasimir Malevich, even as he doubts their claims of attaining the sublime or […]

Centuries ago, in 2022, the FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art and hauled away 25 fake Basquiats that had been on public display as the real deal for five […]

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), artist Yuan Goang-Ming, and curator Abby Chen are pleased to announce Everyday War, the exhibition representing Taiwan at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. […]

“Draped Male Figure” (circa 150 BCE–200 CE) at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In a previous description on the museum’s website, the headless statue was described as “The Emperor as […]

An ancient larger-than-life sandstone Buddha head, a bronze sculpture of a seated Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and a 10th-century goddess statuette from a remote temple complex are among 16 looted Khmer works […]

As workers and tourists traversed the cobblestone streets of Lower Manhattan today, December 15, about 20,000 red paper poppies rested in front of the New York Stock Exchange, each flower […]

LOS ANGELES — “[Nani Chacon] addresses how a secure home is essential.” This the phrase, from the press release for Chacon’s exhibition +Home+ at Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, forced me to […]

‣ This week in art market shenanigans, a British couple avoids paying millions in inheritance taxes by donating a Renaissance bronze to a museum instead. Harriet Sherwood writes in the Guardian: […]

Us explaining to our moms what a 2023 meme looks like (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) As we close the books on 2023, with its political absurdities, unfathomable atrocities, and […]

Within his first 24 hours as president of Argentina, far-right leader Javier Milei signed his first Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU), dramatically reconfiguring the country’s federal government. Shortly after […]

The holiday season has always been more than just a special time to spend with loved ones, as corporations seize the moment to create memorable marketing campaigns that will have […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Ambreen Butt: Lay Bare My Arms at Gallery Wendi Norris combines collage and text with traditional South Asian miniature painting to create energetic works that radiate delicate […]

Morgan Patten’s signs reading “Zionism is Fascism” and “Free Palestine” (all images courtesy Morgan Patten) In mid-October, amid Israel’s deadly ongoing bombardment of Gaza, first-year MFA student Morgan Patten taped […]

Why rewrite a text after having written and published it a few weeks earlier? Because something horrible is happening in Palestine and it is happening to us too, once again. […]

After receiving many incredible proposals for the Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, we’re proud to announce this year’s cohort of fellows: Tiffany D. Gaines, Machiko Harada, Brianna L. […]

The guerrilla action involving twenty activists at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday, December 8, was merely a drop in the bucket compared to the turnout during today’s planned march from the […]

MIAMI BEACH — As fair visitors flowed in and out of the Miami Beach Convention Center on the third day of Art Basel, Friday, December 8, artists and activists from […]