Category: Arts Entertainments

I paid a visit to the Park Avenue Armory yesterday evening for the 36th edition of the Art Show, the…

In Pompeii’s ruins, buried beneath three meters of volcanic ash, was a two-millennia-old mosaic concerning the transitoriness of all things.…

“I hate gay halloween. What do you mean you’re Chappell Roan and a passenger seat?” by Motti and Britt Migs (photos…

LONDON — Wearable objects resembling empty skins, replete with openings, sleeves, eye holes, and zips, populate late artist Nicola L.’s…

LOS ANGELES — After LA County officials issued a controversial call for public art to decorate recreational vehicle (RV) encampment…

Audience engagement is never an afterthought for Indian artist Jitish Kallat, who often plays with participatory and public art in…

Artist Carol Cole Levin has donated over 270 artworks by more than 140 artists — including herself — to the…

Textiles become prints and prints become textiles in Line & Thread, a new exhibition at the New York Public Library’s…

In his 2022 book Model Minority Masochism, scholar Takeo Rivera argued that the influx of Asian immigrants to the United…

Artist Bing Davis opens the Democracy and the Arts launch at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation with a libation. Davis…

On view now at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History features the ambitiously scaled, hyperrealistic charcoal…

We really thought we’d seen it all in the final weeks leading up to a historic presidential election — that…

The much-despised and desired banana that split the art world is headed to the auction block next month, where it’s…

The death of a family member brought Miguel Martinez, a painter and teaching artist living in New York City, back…

Over 25,000 artists and cultural workers and counting have signed a new petition with a simple, one-line message: “The unlicensed…

A documentary photographer who said “Free Palestine” while accepting an award from the German Photographic Society (DGPh) earlier this month…

LOS ANGELES — “Maybe ‘apocalypse’ is the opportunity we are looking for, even if we don’t quite know it yet.”…

Eight months after removing Palestinian-American employee Phil Garip’s artwork from a staff show because it included the phrase “from the…

Gowanus Open Studios returned for its 28th edition this weekend with more than 400 artists, organizations, and businesses opening their…

Leonardo Dog Vinci was a little camera shy around his masterpiece, the “Momma Lisa.” (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) Thousands of…

Artists Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, Mark Bradford, and the late Ruth Asawa are among 20 artists who received the…

LONDON — The Decay of Beauty. The Beauty of Decay, a compact but ambitious exhibition at Colnaghi Gallery, examines the…

Communities on the Cranberry Isles, an archipelago off the coast of Maine named for its yearly cranberry harvests, have lived…

British photojournalist and educator Paul Lowe has been identified as the victim of a fatal stabbing in the San Gabriel…

Hours before a scheduled screening of a documentary about the 1948 depopulation of the Palestinian city of Lyd, Israeli police…

Lisa Schiff and Adam Singer (photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images) Manhattan art advisor Lisa Schiff, who was accused of embezzling…

In the thick of a variety of free art events in New York City this weekend, it’s worth mentioning that…

Left: “The Demolition Squad” by Ingo Arndt (Winner, Behavior: Invertebrates) (© Ingo Arndt, courtesy the Natural History Museum in London),…

‣ Video games, which I was never allowed to play as a child, may finally be shedding their notoriety and gaining…

SANTA FE — Monsters have long been of interest to artists and non-artists alike. They embody our fears, uncertainties, and…

Posted inComics Why did Jerry Lewis spend so much energy concealing The Day the Clown Cried, even in death?  Tagged:…

TAGHKANIC, New York — Immersed in the rolling hills and fall colors of Moh-He-Con-Nuck lands, Forge Project, a Native-led nonprofit…

As mid-October rolls around, the chill in the air signals the season of somber reflection. There’s much to consider in…

François Boucher, “Pastoral with a Couple near a Fountain” (1749) (© The Trustees of the Wallace Collection; courtesy the Wallace…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — What does it mean to find queer joy in an emergency? For Holly Hughes, it starts…

LOS ANGELES — Who’s afraid of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man? In Ghostbusters (1984), the bulbous, white mascot for a fictional marshmallow…

Vincent van Gogh’s “Chair with Pipe” (1881) at London’s National Gallery (image via Wikimedia Commons) The Chair This raw, unpainted,…

From mural art to fashion and music, the vibrance of the Chinese diaspora seeps from every pore of Manhattan’s Mott…

A neurological study commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, found that viewing artworks in person elicited…

Baby Moo Deng may only be two months old, but it’s never too early to learn a lesson in sharing…

‣ Despite not having gallery representation, Renée Cox has been pushing artistic boundaries for decades. Photographer Gioncarlo Valentine interviews her for…

Left: The newly authenticated work, attributed to Botticelli’s studio (© GrandPalaisRmn; photo by Tony Querrec, image courtesy Domaine national de…

It’s a good time for complexity in art. In both conceptual and material terms, our favorite shows of the moment…

Four visual artists — Justin Vivian Bond, Tony Cokes, Ebony G. Patterson, and Wendy Red Star — are among the…

DES MOINES, Iowa — Loss is intrinsic to the experience of being Black in America. This country’s centuries-long history of…

Early findings from a guaranteed income program for artists across New York State reveal that such initiatives can provide crucial…

Portrait of Richard Mayhew in his studio (all images courtesy the Estate of Richard Mayhew and Venus Over Manhattan, New…

If spring is the season of new beginnings, then fall is the opposite: the season of reflection. Let’s look back…

Two months after the stock market crash of 1929, an American Gold Rush heiress named Eila Haggin McKee purchased a…

On view at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico through March 17, 2025, Tristan Duke: Glacial Optics centers on a…

When I arrived at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan on Thursday, the opening day of the Affordable Art Fair (AAF),…

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in New York City has named the three winners of its Community Curation…

Over the past month, a Thai baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng has captured the hearts of millions. For many…

Water, land, sky, animals, and people were the central focuses of a prismatic projection presented by artist Jeffrey Gibson at…

Scientists may have found a way to measure real-time electrical activity in cats’ brains for the first time — using…

At the inaugural La Feria Latinx print media fair in New York City last weekend, I couldn’t always hear the…

I sent my first Moo Deng meme via Instagram on September 3 at 10:15 pm, before the Thai baby pygmy…

WILLIAMSTOWN, Massachusetts — After descending the stairs at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, visitors are welcomed into the…

LOS ANGELES — Simultaneous exhibitions of an individual artist’s work can be hard to pull off successfully. The shows’ conceits…

TORONTO — Director Lou Ye, a member of the sixth generation of Chinese cinema, a movement of filmmakers creating subversive,…

Carlos and Fernando Estrada-Lopez are social workers in Los Angeles, but in Gabriel García Román’s Queer Icons, they are a…

Barnard College’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to protecting academic freedom, published…

A sobering celebration unfolded in London’s Trafalgar Square on Wednesday, September 18, when the latest Fourth Plinth commission by Mexican…

The J. Paul Getty Museum kicked off its PST ART: Art & Science Collide event series last Sunday, September 15,…

Opening this Saturday, September 21, the third iteration of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) aims to acknowledge multiple truths…

Poised atop a column of Egyptian granite, the bronze “Lion of Venice” looks out on the sprawling Piazzetta San Marco.…

The second of two bodies buried in lead sarcophagi recovered from beneath the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has almost…

Detail of Michelangelo’s fresco “Ignudi” on the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel in Vatican City (c. 1508–12) (image via Wikimedia…

A Michigan art dealer accused of swindling seniors out of $1.6 million in a photography consignment scheme was sentenced to…

BERLIN — I first encountered Pia Arke’s video “Arctic Hysteria” (1996) in 2021 at the 34th São Paulo Biennial. In…

When I ventured out to see Aubrey Levinthal’s first New York exhibition in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19…

Around noon on Saturday, September 7, I found myself in a nondescript classroom at El Museo del Barrio giddily singing…

LONDON — The story of a nation’s origins can be so much messier than the day-to-day of its politics. Things…

An unexpected tragedy unfolded at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow, Scotland, when a 55-year-old man died on…

Stamps Gallery is proud to present Kelly Church & Cherish Parrish: In Our Words, An Intergenerational Dialogue, a major exhibition…

Doug Aitken’s Naked City at Borusan Contemporary presents a selection of seven artworks spanning from 2006 to 2024. Curated by…

Though he died at the age of 37 due to AIDS complications, David Wojnarowicz left a powerful legacy of avant-garde…

​​‣ Who were those two intelligent, poised journalists discussing art fairs on WNYC this week … oh, it’s Hyperallergic News Editor…

Books on our reading list this fall, including Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation and Mark: Sonya Kelliher-Combs (photo Hyperallergic) The…

LuYang, “DOKU – Animal #3” (2022), aluminum, LED lights, backlit fabric, 55 x 43 x 4 inches (139 7/10 x…

After I visited Surrealist at Tibor de Nagy, Jimmy Gordon’s debut New York exhibition, I did some research to learn…

On March 24, I was part of an international group of artists and activists who unfurled a monumental quilt measuring…

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Director Glenn D. Lowry has announced that he will step down from his post in…

Work on the long-awaited building project for the Lower East Side’s historic art squat ABC No Rio began at the…

The Noguchi Museum in New York City has terminated three gallery attendants who said they would not comply with a…

LOS ANGELES — In Conversation with the Cosmos is the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of late Filipino artist…

This month’s list encompasses comprehensive surveys of established artists and stellar solo shows from the next generation, marking the art…

Armory Show, mon amour, what happened to you? I hardly recognize you anymore.  You used to be the best of…

Less than six months ago, I was sustaining myself on dining-hall rice and beans and living in a dorm room…

“Are you here for the art show or the fashion show?” an event staffer asked me as I approached the…

For much of the day on Thursday, September 5, a wave of pleasant anticipatory energy resembling the first day of…

A lot of things can be said about an art fair, and which booth was the best is by far…

​​‣ The world of paleontology is juicier than you might think, and New York Magazine‘s Kerry Howley gives us the lowdown…

The Rabkin Prize recognizes the work of writers who are at the heart of our most essential conversations, help us…

CHICAGO — Over the span of merely 10 months in the Edo period, a Japanese artist who went by Tōshūsai…

The Pergamonmuseum, the largest of the five historical institutions in Berlin’s famous museum complex, has been closed entirely since last…

A painting attributed to the Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt went under the hammer for a record-breaking $1.175 million ($1.41…

VIENNA — When I think of Simone Fattal’s work, which I first saw in 2019 at MoMA PS1, I envision…

Carrie Rickey cried when her professor, artist Manny Farber, played Agnès Varda’s film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) for…

BRISTOL, England — Donald Rodney saw the world through metaphor. He suffered from sickle cell anemia throughout his life, meaning…

Every year on the first weekend of September, millions of Americans flock to beaches and barbeques to soak up the…

The history of the Salon, the juried exhibitions that defined European art trends from the 17th through the 19th centuries,…

Welcome to the 249th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Hema Shironi was, rather unusually in Sri Lanka, raised both Catholic and Hindu. Due to her…

Seed art by Mary Beth Leone-Getten at the Minnesota State Fair (all photos Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic) FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota — From…

‣ It’s been a big year for Venezuelan ceramicist and painter Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, who celebrated her 95th birthday and just…

A 27-foot-long container truck featuring a rotating display of artwork will hit the road next week from New York City…

Next Thursday, September 5 in Central Park, artist Edra Soto will unveil a new sculpture from her Graft series (2013–),…

In response to calls for disqualification, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) said it stands by the…

DIJON, France — “In a fabric, the intersection of thread during its weaving establishes an unbreakable pact between the two…

A guaranteed income program in Minnesota has doled out $500 a month to cohorts of urban and rural artists —…

British art historian and renowned curator David Anfam died at the age of 69 in London last Wednesday, August 21,…

Art history is a collaborative project, forever being written and revised. The legacies of artists are developed over time by…

Dindga McCannon, “Rasta Band” (c. 1990), mixed media quilt, dimensions variable (image courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London)…

Ready to take your practice and creativity to new heights? SVACE has the resources and expertise to help you go…

Market goers at Santa Fe Market (photo Erin Joyce/Hyperallergic) SANTA FE — As the sun beat down on attendees, this…

The art director of a family-friendly balloon art experience that traveled from Tel Aviv to Manhattan’s Upper East Side for…

LOS ANGELES — Just after dawn on a recent weekday morning, at the edge of a nondescript parking lot somewhere…

In times of change, art has the power to move us to see, reconsider, and reinvent, and New York City…

CHICAGO — Four Chicago Artists: Theodore Halkin, Evelyn Statsinger, Barbara Rossi, and Christina Ramberg at the Art Institute of Chicago…

The Washington Post eliminated its weekly In the Galleries art column effective immediately, as first reported in BmoreArt and confirmed…

Lavinia Fontana, “Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a Self-Portrait” (c. 1592–1604), 44 x 34 5/8 inches, held in private…

On April 1, 2020, it was abundantly clear that New York City was, by all definitions, not OK: Schools, bars,…

TORONTO — Star Trek’s vast transmedia universe often reminds me of the fandom’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” (IDIC) philosophy.  Star…

A year ago, amid curatorial research considering the missing datasets in the hidden work of mothering, I got stuck on…

Rap battles, Indigenous symbols reclaimed, Esther Pressoir’s alma mater, and more in the last mini puzzle of the summer. Natan…

Steve Wasterval’s mini painting of Transmitter Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, acrylic on canvas, 2 x 1 1/2 inches (~5 x…

As a bittersweet reminder that our scalding summer is coming to a close, the fall art fair season is turning…

LONDON — Shouts ring out, voices chant, hands clap, and children’s laughter bursts from every direction. If you close your…

The Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, will remain closed indefinitely after suffering damage related to Hurricane Beryl, per an announcement…

Italian officials and community members have decried the racist defacement of a mural depicting athlete Paola Egonu, who helped Italy…

During the 19th and 20th centuries, government programs in both the United States and Canada forcibly separated Indigenous children from…

Mark Zuckerberg reveals the new sculpture of his wife, Priscilla Chan. (screenshot Hyperallergic via Instagram) If you had all of…

‣ Late poet June Jordan played an essential role in pushing Audre Lorde and other fellow Black feminist writers to commit…

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich confirmed a forthcoming settlement expansion near a UNESCO Heritage Site in the Occupied West…

A group of 10 visual artists can proceed with copyright claims against four companies using text-to-image generative AI, a California…

Over the course of a seven-decade career, the one constant in Brenda Goodman’s practice has been drawing. The fluidity of…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Justo ahora (right now), María “Lulú” Varona’s second solo show at Embajada gallery, presents cross-stitched and…

The opening frames of the new Gladiator II (2024) trailer introduce us to Macrinus (played by Denzel Washington), the wealthy…

MALIBU, Calif. — On July 20, 1969, artist Lita Albuquerque and her friend were driving through the Tunisian Sahara Desert…

“‘Older’ is a euphemism, just like ‘elder’ and ‘senior’ and ‘golden’ — these are all terms that soft-pedal around a…

PARIS — The late Hungarian-born artist Vera Molnár found patterns everywhere: in architectural details, in optic art, even in dreams.…

Decades ago, I lived in an apartment only a few minutes’ walk from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. I have…

Marin Kosut once founded a gallery in an abandoned pay phone shell in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Now, the writer, sociologist, and…

Harvard University will not remove Arthur M. Sackler’s name from two of its campus buildings, concludes a 15-page report by…

PHILADELPHIA — Do you remember who taught you to type on a desktop QWERTY keyboard? There’s a chance it may…

‣ Wafa Ghnaim penned a must-read essay on the history and legacy of Palestinian garment and craft traditions, including tatreez embroidery.…

The first time Ron Tarver got on an airplane was at age 24 to interview for a staff photographer position…

Fifty years after Philadelphia’s “Young Meher” statue was first erected by Armenian Americans on the United States Bicentennial, the heroic…

PHILADELPHIA — At the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia last weekend, a new feature documentary directed by Blackfeet (Niitsitapi/Siksikaitsitapi) siblings…

Police arrested a New York City independent journalist this afternoon, August 6, for reportedly filming the vandalism of several Brooklyn…

Curator Álvaro Ibarra first encountered paño arte growing up in South Texas, where the square handkerchiefs bearing intricate pen drawings…

Russian anti-war activist and cartoonist Aleksandra “Sasha” Skochilenko is now free from a seven-year prison sentence as part of the…

Arts institutions are no strangers to the range of re-directs required to keep an organization from burning to the ground.…

“We know that most gatherings of artists, curators, dealers, and critics at museums, galleries, art societies, and socials are without…

She had just died, and I couldn’t stop looking at a photograph of her. She held me there: in her…

Welcome to the 245th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

Pepón Osorio with Zayvionne Bristow, Jacob Rodriguez, Lynoshka Santa, Coralis Torres, Chelsey Velez, Kiara Villegas, Dante Quiñonez, and Amy Donghee…

Those last days of summer can be an opportunity to explore artists we might otherwise overlook in the summer group…

August 2 marks the centennial anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth. As one of the most influential voices to come out…

‣ Beyond their architectural and social history, it turns out porches played a key role in early American epidemiology, the New…

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

Scientists say they have discovered the pigment that put the “Golden” in the Dutch Golden Age in Rembrandt’s paintings. New…

Dani Klebes, “Easy Riders” (2024), oil on canvas, 40 x 36 inches (photo by Jon Verney, courtesy the artist) August…

New York City’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is repatriating the remains of 124 Native individuals and 90 Native…

DALLAS — During my three-day visit to Dallas, my hotel hosted a conference on Conscious Capitalism. Each morning, I sat…

A performance involving French singer Philippe Katerine as Bacchus at the Olympics opening ceremony was incorrectly interpreted as a recreation…

Despite the never-ending information available on the internet, there are not many details about artist Edward “Ted” Fawcett Carey. A…

Art and literature work in tandem to fortify myths of single-handed brilliance, creating a reverence for the proverbial “solitary genius.”…

A young woman who was caught on camera posing suggestively on a statue of Bacchus in Florence earlier this month…

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans was established to support exceptional immigrants and children of immigrants in…

Enzo Lefort’s portrait of French long jump and triple jump Paralympian, “Arnaud Assoumani” (2023), photo on DIBOND (all images ©…

In August 2021, the United States ended its disastrous 20-year occupation of Afghanistan with a suitably slapdash withdrawal. The Taliban,…

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

Police were called to Manhattan’s Greene Naftali gallery on Tuesday evening, July 23, after an autonomous group of activists disrupted…

United States Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of protecting funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the…

WASHINGTON, DC — In protest of Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United States Congress today, Wednesday, July 24, thousands of…

At Art Bridges, we believe that everyone, regardless of their location, deserves access to American art. Art allows us to…

Egyptian police detained satirical cartoonist Ashraf Omar at his home in Cairo in the early hours of Monday, July 22,…

In 2012, the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts opened its doors to a one-of-a-kind artist residency for…

The 2024 Upstate Art Weekend was a large, sprawling affair that mapped over 140 spaces in the Hudson Valley region,…

Joanna Piotrowska, “A Most Gentle Touch” (2019), gelatin silver print, 11 4/5 x 9 2/5 inches (© Joanna Piotrowska; courtesy…

Art writer, museum guard, and artist Dereck Stafford Mangus (photo by Christopher Myers, courtesy the Baltimore Museum of Art) Dereck…

Berlin-based artist Rheim Alkadhi says she will pull her work out of London’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) if the…

Brian Eno has long resisted being the subject of a documentary. Filmmaker Rob Nilsson recently told the New York Times…

TORONTO — In its second iteration, the Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)…

Welcome to the 243rd installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

In 1924, the Morgan Library & Museum was incorporated as a public institution dedicated to sharing its collections with the…

“All hail our overlord…” (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, photo via Getty Images) China’s Shanghai Museum is not kitten around about…

Katherine Bradford “Siberian Shamanism” (2024), acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (photo Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic). For anyone who loves color…

Let’s face it — even the most diehard New Yorkers need a break from the stench of sidewalk garbage and…

Whether hosting a party or searching for something to watch on your commute, PAMMTV’s innovative video programming livens up any…

Van Gogh knew a thing or two about ear wounds. (post by Roshan_Rinaldi via X, all screenshots Hyperallergic) “Trump is…

Hilary Pecis, “Mango” (2024), acrylic on linen, 55 x 44 inches (image courtesy the artist and Timothy Taylor Gallery) There…

BERLIN — “Sun Tunnels” (1973–76), a monumental sculptural installation in the Utah desert, so overwhelmingly dominates discussion of Nancy Holt’s oeuvre…

Esther Inglis, excerpt from Proverbs of Solomon (1599) (all images courtesy the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) When…

BALTIMORE — Joyce J. Scott’s half-century retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art is an invitation to wander in her…

A little after noon on Tuesday, June 18, Brazilian artist Ilê Sartuzi entered Room 68 of the British Museum and…

One of the most iconic works of ukiyo-e is Hokusai’s 1814 print “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife,” which depicts…

What follows is an excerpt from a recent conversation between David Ebony and Michael Lobel. David is a writer, critic,…