Category: Arts Entertainments

A group of protesters staged a demonstration in the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art last Friday evening,…

Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our…

A bronze statue at Pompeii’s Temple of Apollo, with Mount Vesuvius visible in the background (photo by Graham O’Keeffe via…

ST. LOUIS — American car culture has long seemed synonymous with a particular make of men: showy, and yet unsure that…

I first saw Xingzi Gu’s vaporous paintings of adolescents on the brink of adulthood at the artist’s MFA show at…

Pope Leo XIV invoked Vincent van Gogh’s “Sower at Sunset” (1888) in his first general audience on Wednesday, May 21,…

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O‘AHU and HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawai‘i — Since mid-February, Honolulu’s city hall has hosted Meleanna Aluli Meyer’s “‘Umeke Lā‘au: Culture Medicine.”…

Art Basel announced this week that it will host a new fair in the Qatari capital city of Doha, partnering…

There’s a tendency when it comes to MFA shows to apply a different set of standards — it’s good “for student…

Several dozen New York City arts and culture advocates — including unionized museum workers, public school educators, community nonprofit leaders,…

Over 1,000 faculty members at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan are officially unionized as of Thursday, May…

LOS ANGELES — The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody…

This morning, May 21, a chorus of boos directed at Columbia University’s Acting President Claire Shipman resonated through the crowd…

In Jāḷī—Meshes of Resistance, nine embroidered textiles bear photographs of women who gaze out at the viewer and one another.…

The artists we’re highlighting this week have diverse practices, ranging from the earthy, unglazed ceramics of Stanley Rosen to the…

Archaeologists in Australia have identified a new Aboriginal rock art style in the country’s western territory that dates back to…

“No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance,” a piece by artists Noel Maghathe, Fadl Fakhouri, and Fargo Tbakhi…

HUNDERMAN, India — When I first arrived in Hunderman, a village near Kargil in India-controlled Kashmir, in March, I was…

Amy Werntz, “Carlyla” (2024), oil on panel (all images courtesy The Bennett Prize unless otherwise noted) Painter Amy Werntz of…

LOS ANGELES — Books offer the contradictions of intimacy and communal experience. They represent the specific characteristics of the people…

It is a photograph etched into the visual canon of the first “television war”: a group of children flee a…

A slew of politicians, government officials, and public figures rubbed shoulders at the British Museum in London earlier this week…

Art critic Aruna D’Souza renounced her degrees from New York University today, Thursday, May 15, after the institution condemned a…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s criticized plan to “beautify” parts of Chinatown is moving forward as the Department of…

A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed double-pedestal lamp became the most valuable piece by the famed American architect to sell at auction…

British sculptor Thomas J. Price’s 12-foot-tall bronze statue “Grounded in the Stars” (2023), which monumentalizes a casually dressed Black woman…

The stress of 2025 is no doubt taking a physical toll — so it’s timely that New York University’s MFA cohort…

Thomas J Price’s “Grounded in the Stars” (2023) in New York City’s Times Square (photo Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic) Black portraiture is…

In a room thick with memory, there is a thing — that’s the closest word I have for it — irradiated…

This week I’m reminded of the breadth of world cultures and the long shadow of human history, with art exhibitions…

With more than a dozen fairs occurring simultaneously this week and next, New York’s spring art season can be dizzying.…

Book cover of Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (2025), written and illustrated by Craig Thompson (all images courtesy Pantheon Graphic Library,…

My first stop at the Independent Art Fair was the rooftop bar: I wanted to catch my breath, enjoy the…

Tuning out the din of fad-hunting throughout Frieze Week, a New York exhibition re-awakens a late feminist sculptor’s embodiments of…

“I was friends with a porn star when I moved back to Los Angeles, and we spent a very depressing…

The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) fair’s reputation for being at the top of the luxury spectrum lent it the…

I gasped when I saw them: a pair of hermit crabs, poking out of resin-printed sculptures resembling a daisy and…

“Oh, I looove her!” I hear a woman in a striped suit gush about Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens, whose…

“It all started with my band breaking up,” artist Taraka Larson began. We’re sitting on a marble-patterned bedspread draped over…

Meanwhile, at the Vatican (via Bluesky, all screenshots Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) As Hyperallergic’s resident adult Catholic convert, I am obliged to…

At Hyperallergic, we take pride in covering protesting museum workers who take to the streets. But few realize that these…

I’ve covered the Met Gala from a meme standpoint in years past, and I intended on doing so this year…

With the Frick finally back at its original home on Fifth Avenue, test your knowledge of the artists and works…

There’s so much to stimulate the eye and mind in museums and galleries this week that it’s a joy to…

TELLURIDE, Colorado — “I’m the last of the Mohicans,” ruminates David Cassirer from the dining room of his modest frontier-style…

Millions of tourists visit the ancient site of Pompeii each year to explore enchanting frescoes, opulent villas, and a seemingly…

Parsons Festival is an annual event series that showcases the creative and intellectual achievements of Parsons School of Design’s graduating…

Mayday! Mayday! From coast to coast, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded streets across the United States to commemorate May…

As Trump threatens to eliminate government-funded arts and culture agencies in a newly released budget proposal, a federal judge has…

Dara Birnbaum, a pioneer of the feminist and video art movements who probed, mimicked, and remixed mass media, died today,…

We can interpret the phrase “may day” in two ways: First, as the ancient May Day festival in Europe, which…

This month’s picks are about art’s ability to tell stories, and how those stories can reveal larger collective narratives. At…

The Siren is back! We have dedicated issue #2 to a satirical reflection on the first 100 days of MAGA:…

Even the figures in Katsukawa Shunchō’s 1789 woodblock print only buy from independent bookstores! (image public domain via the Metropolitan…

Italian police have seized eight helicopters and are investigating four pilots associated with a company offering aerial tours of Pompeii’s…

A 1,800-year-old, life-sized Greco-Roman statue looted nearly six decades ago from present-day Turkey has gone on its final display at…

As its title suggest, arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka:…

From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there’s a lot of variety in our list this week. While our…

LOS ANGELES — “Speak boldly!” says musician and composer Julius Eastman in the 1981 prelude to his musical composition, “The Holy…

What is color? The answer to that question is often that it’s subjective. But such vagueness can somehow still leave…

What struck me first about this year’s Photography Show, running through April 27 at the Park Avenue Armory, was the…

Painter and printmaker Tony Bechara, whose passionate support for artists helped mold New York City’s cultural landscape, died at his…

I only just learned about this, but International Crab Day is tomorrow, April 26, so there’s no better time to…

CHICAGO — Walking through an art fair can feel like swimming in the middle of Lake Michigan — there’s a…

‣ One museum in New Mexico is grappling with historical photos of the Navajo Nation, reframing them in the context…

After slashing critical grant programs for cultural institutions and placing the majority of its staff on leave, the National Endowment…

An enormous sculpture by Nick Cave is joining a growing collection of outdoor works at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and…

Celestial motifs and cosmological geometries strewn across a prismatic landscape comprise “Abstract Futures” (2025), the newest public artwork to grace…

The most representative photograph of Pope Francis — then just Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina — captures him…

In 1971, a seven-year-old Sandra Fabara moved with her family from a city nestled in an Ecuadorian rainforest to the…

If one theme stands out in this week’s list, it’s the presence of strong, talented women. With Patty Chang, Myrlande…

On February 26, the Washington Post reported that the Organization of American States (OAS) had canceled two major exhibitions at…

Western design has long obeyed the dicta of fin de siècle and early 20th-century Berlin and Paris — that ornament…

SAN FRANCISCO — Time folds unto itself and reflects historical and contemporary moments that have shaped society in Isaac Julien’s…

On Friday, April 18, Pratt Manhattan Gallery will open two new photography exhibitions: Black | Box by Dona Ann McAdams,…

Suellen Rocca was one of the original six artists who comprised the Hairy Who. The Chicago artist group exhibited three…

The early-blooming daffodils may bow their trumpets in defeat amid the frosty trickery following Fool’s Spring, but no amount of…

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums…

‣ For Studio International, writer and curator Yasmeen Siddiqui excavates the layered political dimensions of the work of artist Lee…

A portrait of Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both of his arms in an Israeli attack in Gaza, won the World…

Chants of “Guggenheim’s cheap!” “New York is a union town!” and “Up with the union, down with the layoffs!” reverberated…

After a heated bidding battle that went on for a record-breaking 95 minutes, a 700-year-old handscroll fetched over $32 million…

CINCINNATI and CLEVELAND — Last year, Shahzia Sikander created a trio of complementary works for her traveling career survey Collective…

As a small-scale painter, I’ve been interested in meticulous manicures since 2005, when my mom presented me with the holy…

In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Lord Henry, upon meeting the novel’s namesake character, exclaims, “You…

If art both reflects and critique the world around us, there’s more than enough to say at the moment —…

The title of Judith Linhares’s current exhibition at PPOW Gallery, The river is moving, The blackbird must be flying, consists…

In 1988, photojournalist and photo editor Aline Manoukian captured an image of a Palestinian militiaman holding a white kitten in…

Left to right: Kimberli Gant (photo Andar Sawyer), Candice Hopkins (photo Johnny Fogg), Caroline Ellen Liou (photo Emanuel Hahn), Hrag…

On April 26 and 27, the Other Islands Book Fair returns to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus, bringing together over 40 independent…

Staff members at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio are unionizing after 86% of workers voted in favor…

A video posted by the White House on April 11, 2025 appears to show a painting of Trump hanging in…

The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) holds what is arguably the most important collection of early graffiti…

‣ Identifying the color of your aura is trending, thanks to an ill-conceived TikTok filter. But for Believer, photographer Adalena…

LONDON — “The body as a battleground — that applies to everyone,” writes Galli. This statement, quoted in the exhibition text…

Art critic, educator, and photographer Max Kozloff died at the age of 91 on Sunday, April 6. He passed away…

Public auction sales fell 25% in 2024 amid a broader decline in the global art market last year, according to…

An international student enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence has had their visa terminated, as…

WASHINGTON, DC — Tiny ballet flats, palm-sized flip flops, velcro-strap sneakers with Frozen movie character illustrations.  Approximately 17,000 pairs of…

Is it hot in here, or is it just these protest signs? From New York City to Washington, DC, from…

It is not until the acknowledgments at the back of Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with…

Mary Cassatt, “Family Group Reading” (1898) at the Legion of Honor’s Mary Cassatt at Work, January 2025 (photo Lakshmi Rivera…

Following the seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs from an art exhibition in Texas in January, the state’s museums could face…

More than 1,800 academics, including art historians and art professors, have committed to boycotting Columbia University in a March 26…

Ahead of next week’s grant application deadline for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), organizations are in limbo following…

Applications for the 2026 Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion & Culture and Fashion & Design are now…

A paid undergraduate internship to train the next generation of museum professionals. A program to educate collections care professionals on…

If dreams were elaborate theatrical productions, what would their trailing wires, the bits that don’t make it to the stage,…

Karachi-based artist Amin Gulgee’s three-decade-long oeuvre spans metal sculptures, bold performance art, and collaborative curation. A well-structured new volume on…

In a Freudian posthumous twist, researchers discovered a portrait of Catalan artist Joan Miró’s mother concealed beneath his “Painting” nearly…

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums…

If the artist’s name wasn’t clearly printed on the wall labels, I would have thought that Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible…

In an interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, Met Gala co-chair Anna Wintour announced “Fasc-isms” as the theme for this…

LONDON — When the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan ascended to power in 1628, he inscribed a suitably inspirational verse into the…

Deborah-Joyce Holman’s “Close-Up” (2024), currently on view at the Swiss Institute, aestheticizes a Black woman’s mundane domestic activities in a…

This month, we recommend shows by several artists who provide singular, visionary, and radical ways of viewing the world —…

Deborah R. Grayson never expected to find her way back to printmaking. “I was actually a painter until the pandemic.…

Christophe Cherix (© 2021 The Museum of Modern Art, New York; photo by Peter Ross) The Museum of Modern Art’s…

Celia Paul is “a person in love with the romance of that which can never be,” or so says critic…

Palestinian artist and community organizer Dorgham Bassam Qreiqea, 28, was killed in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City amid the…

Monash University in Melbourne has “indefinitely postponed” an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi one month…

What did ancient mummies smell like? What types of scents, perfumes, and odors proliferated in the embalming workshops of Ancient…

In 2021, when the Frick Collection temporarily took over the Brutalist Breuer building that was once home to the Whitney…

Lawyers representing Venezuelan migrants who are being held in immigration custody, or who have already been deported to a mega-prison…

As March comes to a close, New York City ushers in Print Week with the 34th edition of the International Fine Print…

Pratt opens its doors, inviting visitors into its gallery spaces on the Brooklyn campus and Dock 72 to explore the…

Artist Nona Faustine, whose self-portraits memorialized under-recognized narratives and fearlessly confronted violent histories, died on Thursday morning, March 20, at…

Catherine Murphy is one of a handful of artists who changed observational painting between the 1960s and ’80s, when painting’s…

As of today, my Roth Contributory IRA balance stands at $3,372.30. Being that I’m 23, that number is not an…

TOKYO — At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a standing-room-only crowd watches the unfolding of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani’s…

After ordering the effective dismantlement of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) last week, President Donald Trump has…

MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — Luxury, legacy, and a touch of subversion — the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) returned to…

Gert and Uwe Tobia, “Untitled” (2012-13), lithograph with hand-coloring (© 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst,…

Los Angeles has cemented its status as a global art capital over the past two decades, with the arrival of…

Fred Eversley, who fused art and science to create captivating parabolic sculptures, died on March 14 at the age of…

Katherine Simóne Reynolds’s guest-curated exhibition, Held Impermanence, aims to illuminate competing desires held in constant tension and draws deeply upon…

In a new interview with Hyperallergic, Erik af Klint, board chair of the Hilma af Klint Foundation and the artist’s…

The expansive front gallery of the Drawing Center may get the most attention, but the smaller back space and the…

This is a week of big statements by artists and expanded possibilities by curators and gallerists, past and present. If…

Mitchell Johnson is exhibiting seven large-scale paintings in the lobby of the San Francisco skyscraper 425 Market Street from March…

Nick Cave has long been a flag-bearer of maximalism even as the art world tended toward minimalism. His Soundsuit sculptures,…

LOS ANGELES — “Witness” is a bronze cast of the bottom half of Kelly Akashi’s face. The surface of the…

This month, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) received the largest corporate donation it’s ever gotten for a single…

The trail of staff cuts trickling throughout cultural institutions in the United States appears to continue across the pond, as…

MIAMI — A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease and the loss of…

Raymond Pettibon with David Larsen, “Untitled (Joan had been…)” (mid-1990s), linocut (all images courtesy Getty Research Institute) LOS ANGELES —…

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American and second woman to hold the…

Japan Society is pleased to present Kotobuki: Auspicious Celebrations of Japanese Art from New York Private Collections, an exhibition that…

The Grand Penn Community Alliance (GPCA) presented its proposal for renovating Penn Station at the New York Historical on Tuesday,…

The Center for Craft is accepting applications for the 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship, offering six $5,000 awards to support research…

Widespread cuts to the federal workforce under President Trump may leave the General Services Administration’s (GSA) massive collection of public…

The not-for-profit Powerhouse Arts (PHA) pushes forward on its commitment to creative expression by introducing a new, print-focused fair: the…

An ongoing exhibition at the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, brings seven of…

Designer and multidisciplinary artist Silas Munro presents the latest iteration of his ongoing Black Grids project with the exhibition How…

I have this vague, flickering memory of neon orange billowing impossibly through threadbare trees like the penumbric trails of large,…

Deborah Kass, left to right, “Making Men 4” (1992) and “Puff Piece” (1992) Deborah Kass created the Art History Paintings…

We’re hosting a virtual town hall meeting for Hyperallergic Members on March 19 at 6pm (EDT).  We loved connecting with…

Largely derided as the pinnacle of feminine vanity and frivolity, the imported porcelain fever of early 18th-century Europe laid the…

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, has come under scrutiny after the institution laid off 13…

LOS ANGELES — Radical “Pop-Art Nun” Corita Kent is moving downtown. This Saturday, March 8, the Corita Art Center (CAC)…

Absurd edits of Vice President JD Vance have ballooned across social media in the week following the disastrous televised meeting…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for requiring grant applicants to…

For over three decades, textile artist Myrlande Constant has depicted scenes from Haitian history, religion, and daily life through the…

Anne Imhof’s three-hour performance at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan is overwhelmingly infantile, comically apolitical, excessively pessimistic about the…

After the recent frenzy of Art Week here in Los Angeles, this month’s selections focus on community and collaboration, tracing…

In an over two-minute speech on the stage of Los Angeles’s Dolby Theater on Sunday night, March 2, Palestinian journalist,…

A gilded brass reliquary bust of a martyred female saint (Southern Germany or Switzerland, c. 1500), brass with gilding and…

Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their…

Kathryn Freeman, “Living with Goats” (2023), oil on linen (courtesy Carrie Haddad Gallery) Although we celebrate his birthday in April,…

After being closed to the public for about a year, Manhattan’s New Museum will reopen this fall with more than…

During my first visit to the Outsider Art Fair in Manhattan yesterday, February 27, the overall experience was exactly what…

In a special oversight hearing at New York City Hall this morning, February 28, Brooklyn Museum workers, union representatives, and…

The Guggenheim Museum in New York will lay off 20 employees, around 7% of its staff, the institution announced today,…

In the three years since Russia invaded Ukraine, near-daily heavy drone strikes and missile bombardments have killed thousands of civilians…

Artist Andil Gosine would be setting up his exhibition Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine in Washington, DC this week if…

Treasures of the Medieval World at Luhring Augustine represents what galleries can offer that many museums do not: an up-close…

The pairing of paintings by Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz in Intersection at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects was a…

Philip Guston, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, a Black artist with a strict Southern Christian upbringing, came from…

Over 200 people, including current and former Brooklyn Museum workers and supporters, rallied outside the institution during a fundraising event…

The Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, has terminated an exhibition of works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African…

It’s 31 degrees outside, but the wind makes it feel like 19. When I arrived at the New York Supreme…

The fan kicked on with a loud drone. A giant red hand flopped forebodingly over the tape meant to protect…

Strewn about a dark room are objects that recall the wreckage of a plane. As I investigated the scene of…

The projection of Luigi Mangione portrayed as a saint on a building at the intersection of Canal and Lafayette Streets…

LOS ANGELES — As crowds descended on the Santa Monica Airport yesterday, February 20, for the opening of Frieze Los…

Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shooter Luigi Mangione appeared for a brief hearing at a Manhattan court today, February 21,…

Harry Gould Harvey IV, “Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread” (2025) at Post-Fair (all photos Sigourney Schultz/Hyperallergic) LOS…

At the end of its previous term, the Trump administration turned its attention toward the arts. A 2020 executive order…

A Mexico City exhibition of paintings portraying sexualized and queer Christian priests and nuns has elicited fervent complaints from religious groups…

The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria per the country’s request, marking the single largest return…

When wildfires swept through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena last month, the fate of the fairs participating in LA’s February…

A “black box” — variously a flight data recorder, theater, and camera — is essentially a repository for different modes…

Hundreds of artists rebuked the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in an open letter this week after the agency…

Sometimes we need to see the big picture to find meaning; other times it’s in the little things. And still…

Valentine’s Day may be over, but love in art endures — including an iconic Klimt embrace. Solve this and other…

LEIPZIG, Germany — My first impression of Marina Perez Simão’s recent oil paintings — 17 of which are shown at G2…

A drama lives within each painting by Raoul De Keyser. Even the sparsest works are entire galaxies buzzing with activity.…

Australia’s decision to drop Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi as its representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale has triggered an uproar culminating…

The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously…