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매력은 강남달토가 매력은 강남달토가 있는 곳이야? 라는 질문은 단순히 장소의 물리적 위치만을 묻는 것이 아니라, 그 공간이 주는 느낌과 경험,…
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매력은 강남달토가 매력은 강남달토가 있는 곳이야? 라는 질문은 단순히 장소의 물리적 위치만을 묻는 것이 아니라, 그 공간이 주는 느낌과 경험,…
“Make work.” Laura James shared this concise yet powerful mantra with me during a visit to her Bronx studio in…
In the international queer community, Arewà Basit is known as a dancing, singing don-diva who makes music, performs in drag,…
The art world has seen its fair share of eyebrow-raising brand collaborations in recent years. Damien Hirst made a bag…
LONDON — Demonstrating “influence” between artists is a thorny enterprise. Side-by-side comparisons can often reveal how one individual or movement’s technical…
Obsession often does an artist good. That idea she can’t stop thinking about, that uncompleted project that keeps her up…
As I circled around the dozens of booths along the three wide lanes at Art on Paper on Thursday, September…
Robert Grosvenor, whose work resisted artistic classification for more than six decades, died in Long Island, New York, on Wednesday,…
Eduardo Holgado encounters most of his art on Instagram now, perusing posts from galleries and artists before ever setting foot…
Calling Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka’s solo presentation at the Armory Show a “booth” feels somehow wrong, like a reduction of the…
Historian and curator Kim Sajet, who recently left her longtime post as director at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after…
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch sent a letter to the Trump administration responding to a list of demands the White House…
Left to right: Tempestt Hazel, American Meredith, Jessica Lynne, Nicole Martinez, Paul Chaat Smith, Eva Recinos, Brandy McDonnell, and J…
A view of the 508-534 West 26th Street building complex in West Chelsea, Manhattan (photo Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) An esteemed nonprofit…
“Who was Marian Spore Bush?” The question begins an essay by Bob Nickas, who curated the exhibition Marian Spore Bush:…
Giuseppe Ghislandi, “Portrait of a Lady” (image courtesy the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) Authorities in Argentina have reportedly…
LOS ANGELES — Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan: A Retrospective at the Brick, a comprehensive survey of the LA-based artist’s work, is…
Each year, come September, we all pretend the world isn’t burning and put on our best oversized shirt to work…
LONDON — Some of the Courtauld’s previous exhibitions have suffered from insufficient curation. Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams, Eva Hesse,…
In 2019, Hugo Crosthwaite became the first Latino artist to win the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) prestigious triennial Outwin…
Since 1973, Vincent van Gogh masterpieces including his beloved sunflowers, wistful wheatfields, and self-portraits have been housed in Amsterdam’s Van…
A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at one of…
A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at one of…
Initiated in 2006, the NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is a celebration and international gathering for artists’ book publishers to…
The Molina Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which has served as the home of…
SAN MARINO, Calif. — Standing in the gallery of Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight, you are bathed in cobalt blue light.…
It’s about that time of year when the slight crisping of the air signals that the balmy summer is departing,…
A Pennsylvania art museum is suing the Trump administration after the government terminated a $750,000 federal grant for collection conservation…
Raphael, “The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna)” (1509–11) (image courtesy…
OTTAWA — I first encountered multidisciplinary artist Skawennati in person at her December 2019 talk at the former McLuhan Centre…
Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta painter Danielle SeeWalker has settled a civil rights lawsuit with the town of Vail, Colorado, more than a…
Ferocious desert stormwinds have swept away a colossal Ukrainian artwork within hours of its installation at the annual Burning Man…
LONDON — There is something both frightening and fascinating about a sculpture that could kill you. Hamad Butt’s Familiars (1992)…
The Surrealists understood that so much depends on context: What is ordinary lining a glove, for instance, becomes grotesque in…
GREENWICH, Conn. — Jeremy Frey weaves slim strips of wood into mesmerizing patterns and color combinations with extreme precision. In…
The Orange Avenue crossing before and after it was paved over (image courtesy Office of Mayor Buddy Dyer) Orlando residents…
Kenny Nguyen: The Divine Eye is an evocative, large-scale installation that invites viewers to engage with the rich spiritual and…
Pieces of limestone buildings, marble and granite royal statues, and the remains of a merchant ship are among the relics…
Rigoberto A. González, “Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas” (2020) was among the artworks targeted in a statement…
LOS ANGELES — A set of watercolors by two-year-old Micah Zuri Davis-O’Connor is one of the first works to greet viewers…
John Everett Millais, “Ophelia” (1851-2) (image via Wikimedia Commons, PDM 1.0) A 19th-century artwork that has inspired artists from Surrealist…
In the Medium of Life at the Drawing Center makes clear that Beauford Delaney’s drawings are far more than sketches…
Mickalene Thomas’s former fiancée and business partner has accused the contemporary artist of sexual harassment, nonpayment, and workplace retaliation in…
Jin Meyerson, “EVENT HORIZON” (2025), oil on canvas (all photos Sigourney Schultz/Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — On Christmas…
SANTA FE — Every third weekend in August, New Mexico’s capital becomes a hub of Indigenous creativity for the Santa…
In the 1960s, New York City’s underground gay scene was bustling. Yet the photography that emerged from this pre-Stonewall milieu…
The 14th iteration of the BlackStar Film Festival returned to Philadelphia from July 31 to August 3 with a robust…
PARIS — The bowl cut, the cats, the heart-shaped potatoes. The predilection for loopy plots and faces hidden in household…
A US Border Patrol agent stands in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on August 14,…
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A large protest artwork by Anish Kapoor was hoisted onto a North Sea oil platform today, revealing a 40-by-26-foot (12-by-8-meter)…
BRISTOL, England — Last year, Bristol’s Arnolfini cancelled two Bristol Palestine Film Festival events, leading to controversy and a boycott.…
The Trump administration will begin a “comprehensive internal review” of the Smithsonian Institution, including an examination of exhibitions, curatorial processes,…
LOS ANGELES — A circa 1848 daguerrotype featuring a nude lesbian couple engaging in foreplay meets Matías Sauter Morera’s AI-assisted…
As a rebellious youngster, I didn’t want to be the third generation of my family to attend the Institute of…
Museum visitors in Singapore have reportedly had difficulty keeping their hands off a wall installation consisting of dozens of mounted…
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, installed a new label describing President Donald Trump’s impeachment…
A federal judge in Illinois sided with Scottish artist Peter Doig last month in an outlandish decades-long legal dispute over…
New York City is defined in many ways by its iconic infrastructure, from our parks to the soaring towers of…
A federal judge halted further construction on the notoriously dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center yesterday, August 7, in response to…
This month’s exhibitions bring a transformative twist to the everyday, imbuing mundane items with psychological, political, and personal depth. At…
A Bangkok exhibition exploring state violence and resistance, which included artists from Tibet and Hong Kong, was altered under pressure…
For more than three decades, the Art Dealers Association of America’s (ADAA) annual Art Show in New York City served…
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CHICAGO — Nearly every summer in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, some genuinely dumb public art is trotted out for…
Kour Pour, “Twice Removed” (2025), acrylic, block ink, and esphand on shaped canvases (all images courtesy Kour Pour Studio, unless…
On the Western shores of Oʻahu, natural wave activity revealed an approximately 115-foot-long stretch containing 26 petroglyphs this month for…
Amy Sherald, “As American as Apple Pie” (2020) in Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art…
The National Park Service (NPS) will restore and reinstall a bronze statue of a Confederate general that was toppled and…
Public art has no single form — it’s that mural you pass on your daily commute, the sculpture gracing your…
On June 2, the director of the Whitney Museum, Scott Rothkopf, sent an email announcing his “suspension” of the 50-year-old…
LOS ANGELES — “The art department is one excellent example of how the arts of peace become the arts of…
HOUSTON — To say that I’m drawn to Jillian Conrad’s art might sound like an all-too-easy pun in a review…
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The Department of Homeland Security posted John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress” (screenshot Hyperallergic, via X) Prussian painter John Gast’s…
The Smithsonian Institution has removed a label from the National Museum of American History exhibition The American Presidency that referenced…
Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their…
Portrait of American artist Raymond Saunders (1970s) (photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images) Raymond Saunders, whose collage-based paintings and installation works…
The harsh realities of our world are softened by the steadfast gifts of nature, and August in Upstate New York…
A visitor leaves a “birthday wish” for the United States’ 250th Anniversary at the New York Historical (photo courtesy the…
Picture this: You are a set of clothes hangers strung out on a rooftop clothesline, placed there by a family…
Sometimes it seems like the art world has a short attention span, skipping from one trend to the next, so…
Wesley LePatner (image courtesy Blackstone) Wesley LePatner, an elective trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Blackstone executive, was…
A drawing by Daniel Johnston (image courtesy Daniel Johnston Trust, all others Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic) I was in my second year…
Helen Chadwick, latex costume used in “Domestic Sanitation” (1976) (© Estate of Helen Chadwick) It is perhaps a testament to…
Still from Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez’s TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025), which will kick…
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I spent a few weeks abroad this summer, and it was a relief to be away from the United States…
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the umbrella institution overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums…
LOS ANGELES — In 1933, German-Jewish artist, art collector, and art dealer Galka Scheyer commissioned architect Richard Neutra to build…
Refik Anadol set himself up for failure. For his latest work, the artist best known for his shapeshifting AI installation…
New York City-born artist and provocateur Andres Serrano wants the United States Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale to showcase…
A visitor with Amy Sherald’s painting “Trans Forming Liberty” (2024) at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)…
The month of July brings Upstate Art Weekend (UAW), an annual summer cornucopia of art in the region. Launched in…
President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the second…
CHICAGO — Do people need art? I know I always have, as something to enjoy, discuss, learn from, be puzzled…
A day after Independence Day in the United States, the world’s richest man announced on X that he would form…
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” reimagined for the moment (via @memequeen and @esixus on Instagram, all screenshots Hyperallgic) As we all…
Most American art lives in storage. Many museums, especially those in underserved regions, don’t have the resources to borrow or…
CHICAGO — The history of art, stated curator Jonathan D. Katz, “is both the world’s largest archive of the history…
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A documentary can sometimes tell a viewer more about the time it was made than the one it recounts. This…
Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on August 12, 2025, for a virtual conversation with two renowned artists about…
Few of Japan’s great photographers had a career as bold and multifaceted as Masahisa Fukase. Though largely defined by his…
A crude sketch of a naked woman allegedly hand-drawn by President Donald Trump was in a salacious 50th birthday album…
SAN FRANCISCO — Ruth Asawa’s infant son, Paul, lies on a blanket in a tender ink drawing entitled “Untitled (FF.1234,…
Crypto mogul Justin Sun is — unsurprisingly — making another controversial investment decision, and this time, we wish it were…
The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven has withdrawn two federal grant requests for a forthcoming Southeast African art…
HAMBURG, Germany — Only July 9, 1975, the artist Bas Jan Ader, age 33, set sail from Cape Cod, intending…
It’s that time of the year again when the sweltering, swampy heat of New York City has even the cockroaches…
Nearly 150 artists, curators, and other cultural figures signed an open letter denouncing the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s decision to abruptly call…
Julia Margaret Cameron, “Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!” (1867), carbon print (© The Royal Photographic Society Collection…
The sky has been a source of inspiration for artists since time immemorial. But our collective understanding of just how…
The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens frames the…
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One of the best parts about aging, as an artist and a woman, is finding untapped confidence and reaching the…
Shamim M. Momin will begin her tenure as director and chief curator of the Bronx Museum. (photo by Sue de…
The Buffalo News published a cartoon about the Texas floods that sparked outrage from some audiences. (screenshot Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic via…
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Federal agents paid an unexpected visit to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (NMPRAC) in Chicago earlier…
Artist and Gao Brothers member Gao Zhen, who has been held in a Chinese detention center for nearly a year…
On the heels of a historic municipal work stoppage that left Philadelphia’s streets drowning in mounting garbage piles, unionized staff…
Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry had a boundless art practice that extended out to the literal walls of her…
It’s been nearly a month since 21-year-old Mads Mikkelsen was denied entry into the United States after border agents discovered…
Community members in Plainfield, Illinois, unveiled a monument late last month honoring six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi, who was murdered by his…
Answer: They’re in this month’s crossword! Dig into our July art puzzle with more clues on the French term that…
LONDON — In a small rural village in Scotland, an advertisement-style billboard by Milly Thompson (1964–2022) depicted two women in…
As another Independence Day comes and goes, and our nation is increasingly compromised, we lean ever further into our collective…
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the only four-year school devoted to contemporary Indigenous arts, could lose all of…
A refusal to adhere to distinct categories, a breakdown of hierarchies, and an embrace of hybridity are a few common…
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To our friends of the human persuasion: Ten years ago the Muppets made a show called The Great Moments in…
“May we wake up from the nightmare that is our current leadership by voting for leaders who care about the…
Take a moment to recall the last time you heard the sound of the ocean. Maybe it’s been years, or…
Artist Khaled Sabsabi (left) and curator Michael Dagostino (right) (photo by Anna Kucera for Creative Australia) Artist Khaled Sabsabi and…
In the lead-up to the release of Lorde’s fourth album, Virgin, this past weekend, the singer’s social media was riddled…
AUSTIN — Nora Naranjo Morse and Eliza Naranjo Morse: Lifelong at the Blanton Museum of Art is part of In…
Mention “spirituality” in relation to modern or contemporary art in a United States metropolis, and chances are you’ll get some…
This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2025 Pride Month series, spotlighting moments from New York’s LGBTQ+ art history throughout June. Whether serving…
HOUSTON — On April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Joe Overstreet began a new…
On my second visit to Hello Goodbye at Dimin, ceramicist Michelle Im’s first solo exhibition in New York, her terracotta…
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants and the children of immigrants in the US pursuing…
Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is the first career-spanning museum exhibition dedicated to the drawings of the acclaimed contemporary artist. On view…
Mads Mikkelsen, a 21-year-old from Norway, was denied entry to the United States earlier this month after immigration officers uncovered…
After nearly four decades of reigning with an iron fist, Anna Wintour is stepping down from her fiery throne as…
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Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon, who tirelessly trained her lens on the social inequalities, painful struggles, and human resilience to which…
SAN FRANCISCO — There’s nothing nicer than going into a major museum show like Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art…
Before the telephone rendered it obsolete, the optical telegraph was somewhat of a national fixation in 19th-century France. Petrified by…
Millions of iridescent stars, far-off remote galaxies, and swarms of hurtling asteroids are just a few of the cosmic phenomena…
I don’t tell this story often, and have never told it in such detail publicly before. However, given our current…
Chloë Bass likes to people watch, and our emotions are her medium. She’s part of a lineage of artists across…
Artist’s voices aren’t always easy to listen to. Sometimes it’s because they’re speaking to uncomfortable realities that shape our societies…
For the third year in a row, Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), taking…
TUNIS — It was early spring in Tunisia, and shockingly bright bougainvillea were exploding, the sky was a bright cerulean blue,…
The sculptures outside the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, breathe a sigh of relief as DeSantis’s proposal to transfer the…
To liberally paraphrase Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Locksley Hall,” in the summer, a young artist’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts…
LOS ANGELES – I remember when the smoke plume from the Palisades and Eaton fires left LA in January, its…
Alice Austen, “Trude & I masked, short skirts” (August 6, 1891); Collection of Historic Richmond Town, Alice Austen Photograph Collection…
Elizabeth Catlett, “Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison” (2003) (all photos by David Jacobs, courtesy David Felsen) In Upper…
The Brant Foundation’s Glenn Ligon isn’t a deep dive into the artist’s career, but it is a concise overview that…
The National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) and the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, DC, are on the chopping…
You can’t spell “rainbow” without “rain.” Despite less-than-ideal weather, Brooklyn Pride Day kicked off without a hitch this past Saturday,…
Thousands of visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris were stuck in hours-long lines outside the institution today, June 16,…
KELANTAN, MALAYSIA — A puppet with flowing hair and a sharp-toothed grin came soaring into view as background singers shrieked,…
KATONAH, New York — In calamity and in commotion — that’s where I begin when I visit Ali Banisadr: The…
Firelei Báez at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa features more than 30 works showcasing nearly two decades of…
Kim Sajet, who has led the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) for over a decade, has resigned from her director…
WASHINGTON, DC — The Indian Craft Shop, which has presented the handmade arts and crafts of federally recognized American Indians…
Protesters with signs designed by artist Patrick Martinez in downtown LA on June 8, 2025 (photo courtesy Patrick Martinez) LOS…
LOS ANGELES — Police State, a 10-day durational performance by activist, artist, and Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova, transforms the cavernous…
As a conceptual artist myself, I instinctively approached Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology (2025) with an eagerness…
After nearly two years of extensive restoration, the soaring Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn,…
Flaming self-driving Waymo cars, “Death 2 ICE” spray-painted across the entrance of a boarded T-Mobile store, highway overpasses dotted with…
In Gordon Parks’s photograph “Radio Technicians’ Class, Daytona Beach, Florida” (1943), two rows of students gaze obediently at their professor,…
Jim Shaw, “Large Study for ‘Origin of the Species’” (2016), pencil on paper (all photos Zach Reich/Hyperallergic) Jim Shaw seems…
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Two years ago, the once-lofty San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) filed for bankruptcy amid mounting debts, a failed merger with…
One of many Mean Girl references dominating the Musk-Trump feud feed (via X, all screenshots Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) Elonald. Elump. Trelon.…
Daniel Lelong in 2009 at Galerie Lelong in Paris (all images courtesy Galerie Lelong) Daniel Lelong, co-founder of Galerie Lelong…
William Blake, “The Whore of Babylon” (1809) (all photos Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Amid collective failures to stop genocide and…
Weeks after the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that a woman can only be defined on the basis of biological…
PASADENA — One fascinating thing about parenting is seeing how your children combine your mannerisms with their exposure to the…
Because apparently a gold-framed mugshot, chorus of New York Post covers, and raised-fist propagandist painting weren’t enough, another portrait of…
As a child, Alan Michelson often rode the T past sculptor Cyrus Edward Dallin’s “Appeal to the Great Spirit” (1908)…
The exhibitions this week show us how we shape ourselves in history’s image, and the other way around. Lotus L.…
Kick off Pride month with clues on Marsha P. Johnson’s biographer, Greek amphora nymphs, Victorian lesbian photography, a painter who…
CHICAGO — Tony Tasset is the master of making things that are so bad they’re good. Over the course of…
“He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to…
Famed anonymous street artist Banksy has broken his six-month silence this morning, claiming credit via an Instagram post for a…
Once, when I was in my 20s and too much feeling the weight of being a Black man in the…
PHILADELPHIA — In a bucolic corner of the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia sits the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in…
Kim Sajet attends the American Portrait Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on November 17, 2019, in Washington, DC.…
This week, Harvard University agreed to relinquish 15 daguerreotypes thought to be among the earliest photographs of enslaved people in…
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Pigeons are disappearing from Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, and one artist says she knows why. New York fixture Tina…
Brazilian photojournalist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado died at the age of 81 in Paris on Friday, May 23, as confirmed…
A group of protesters staged a demonstration in the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art last Friday evening,…