Category: Arts Entertainments

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Käthe Kollwitz, “Self portrait” (1891–92), gouache on paper (all photos Alice Procter/Hyperallergic) Käthe Kollwitz is an artist’s artist. There’s a…

Among the most striking paintings within St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum in Russia is Leonardo da Vinci’s “Madonna Litta” from around…

Moss Galleries is proud to present a retrospective honoring the extraordinary talent and artistic vision of abstract painter Judith Rothschild…

Artist Shahzia Sikander’s monumental sculpture “Witness” (2023) was beheaded in the early hours of Monday morning, July 8, on the…

The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse delves into the fascinating journey of how a single Classical vase rose to legendary…

A recently excavated Ancient Roman shrine in Pompeii revealed idyllic blue wall frescoes as well as an ample amount of…

Site Santa Fe, in collaboration with artist Teresita Fernández and Holt/Smithson Foundation, presents the exhibition Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson.…

VENICE — In “ROMANTIC IRELAND,” a multi-channel video installation produced by Eimear Walshe for the Irish Pavilion at this year’s…

Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World by Chris Gavaler and Nat Goldberg (image courtesy Bloomsbury)…

Abigail Dudley, “Emmanuel” (2023–24), oil on linen, 32 x 36 inches (all images courtesy Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects) Abigail…

Walton Ford, “Zürichsee” (2015), watercolor, gouache, and ink (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) New York’s art world is a zoo this summer.…

CLAVERACK, New York — It is no secret that the art world can be a lonely place. There is something…

Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong, celebrated for her contributions to painterly figuration and for her role in Europe’s avant-garde Situationist…

American curator Norman Kleeblatt (photo by Nikolai Devera) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world…

Ari Moore is a Buffalo-based artist, teacher, and activist. (all images courtesy the artist) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride…

Not everyone can flee the hot mess of summer in New York City — it ain’t all “what pleasure, what…

Seattle Art Fair returns to Lumen Field Event Center this July 25⁠–28 with notable presentations from the Pacific Northwest’s leading…

If you’re struggling to do anything beyond basking in whichever air-conditioned spaces or cooling centers you can find this summer,…

Grant Wood’s masterpiece reimagined for the 2024 election season (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, all social media screenshots by Hyperallergic) President…

Activists with ACT UP and Jewish Voice for Peace carried out an art-filled action at the AIDS Memorial (photo by…

Upon approaching La MaMa Galleria, I knew I would be in for a treat. The gallery’s front window shows a…

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. When Deborah…

‣ Kellie B. Gormly writes for Smithsonian Magazine about Edythe Eyde — also brilliantly known as “Lisa Ben” — who founded…

Mayor Eric Adams and City Council are set to publish New York City’s adopted budget for the 2025 fiscal year…

Jonathan Yeo, “Sir David Attenborough” (2024), oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 39 3/5 inches (© Jonathan Yeo studio, 2024;…

Kay Turner in a performance promotion for the What a Witch performance series (photo collage by Vanessa Haney, all images…

Caravaggio, “Young Sick Bacchus” (1593), oil on canvas, 26 x 21 inches (image via Wikimedia Commons) Due to the inherent…

Hundreds of visual and performing arts spaces across Florida were shocked to learn that Republican Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed $32…

Installation view of Arlene Shechet, “Bea Blue” (2024) (photo by David Schulze, courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery) With the…

American photographer, artist, and activist Nan Goldin (photo by Max Cramer, courtesy the aritst) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride…

Paula Allen, “Havana, Niurka” (2007) (all photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) DETROIT — The Mighty Real/Queer Detroit biennial isn’t notable just because…

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Artist Marlene…

Artist and gallerist Chaim Peri is among four Israeli hostages confirmed dead in Hamas captivity, per a notice from the…

Welcome to the 239th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

WARSAW — Walking into A Tiger came into the Garden: Art of Maria Prymachenko at the Museum of Modern Art…

Philip Guston’s “Sunrise” 1979 and Martha Diamond’s “Central Character” (1983) at the Portland Museum of Art (photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) The…

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. In 1989,…

‣ For the Cut, Nell McShane Wulfhart narrates the life of Bonnie Erickson, the woman who created Miss Piggy, the…

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — Entering Hand to Mouth, visitors are greeted by Todd Anthony Johnson’s six-minute performance video, “FIELD HOLLA” (2015).…

“The Star” from the Mixed Signals Tarot deck (all images from the Mixed Signals tarot deck designed by M Eilo;…

Two members of the Just Stop Oil climate advocacy group were arrested on Wednesday, June 19 after dousing parts of…

Like many people who grow up in Brooklyn, Adama Delphine Fawundu remembers spending much of her childhood and adolescence in…

It feels like art is everywhere in the city — from a new gallery in Brooklyn to an Upper East…

Where did early Christians come together to worship? Later tales of these gatherings focus on converts meeting within so-called “house…

LOS ANGELES — An ad-hoc group of artists, art workers, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) students and faculty…

In 2022, the Brooklyn-based arts nonprofit WORTHLESSSTUDIOS hosted 1-800 Happy Birthday, a posthumous tribute to 12 Black and Brown individuals…

On a bright, sunny day in Victorian England, a little curly-haired May Morris gleefully handed a ball of wriggling worms…

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This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. “It’s so…

Artist and trans woman Jamie Diaz has been granted parole after serving nearly 30 years of a life sentence in…

Two activists from the animal rights and agricultural sustainability group Animal Rising tagged Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of King Charles III…

Joanne Greenbaum began making ceramic sculpture in 2004, after enrolling in a ceramics class at Greenwich House in New York…

Paul Wong in “Parade – Pedestrian Protest” (2021), as part of Pride in Chinatown (all images courtesy Paul Wong) This…

Large swaths of the global art world remain little known to many of us in American and European art communities.…

Portrait of Harmony Hammond (2019) (photo Clayton Porter, courtesy the artist) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring…

Welcome to the 237th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

SAN FRANCISCO — Early on Thursday evening, June 6, right before the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s first-ever open-call exhibition opened to…

Gaza looms large over Jenny Holzer’s new exhibition Light Line at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. And yet, the…

In the old Pfizer factory building at the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Broadway Triangle in Brooklyn, The Bishop Gallery’s first-floor…

‣ Chinatown’s Yu and Me Books is a hub for Asian-American writers, artists, and lovers of literature, and Jordyn Holman writes…

A dozen staffers at the University of the Arts (UArts) have filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Philadelphia arts…

Experts’ fears regarding Azerbaijan’s accelerated destruction of Armenian cultural heritage sites across Artsakh (also known by the Russian name Nagorno-Karabakh)…

After a massive pro-Palestine action yielded dozens of arrests at the Brooklyn Museum last Friday, May 31, activists are decrying…

French authorities have charged performance artist Deborah De Robertis over her intervention involving the tagging of Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin…

Linda Mussmann (photo by David McIntyre, courtesy Time & Space Limited) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring…

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Carol Ockman…

Students and faculty of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts (UArts) rallied outside the school’s Hamilton Hall today, June 3, to…

Happy Pride Month! As we mark the 54th annual celebration, which began after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York,…

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. Artist and…

Alison Croney Moses has been selected as the recipient of the annual BMC Prize, a grant for artists working in…

“I wish you well,” Gwyneth Paltrow tells convicted felon Donald Trump in a popular online meme (screenshot Hyperallergic) As we…

At least 20 demonstrators were arrested this afternoon, May 31, during a massive protest against Israel’s war on Gaza at…

VENICE — While biennials have practically metastasized across the globe, the Venice Biennale is the OG — the first ever…

Welcome to the 236th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

‣ Writer Elisa Wouk Almino, former Hyperallergic senior editor, interviews photographer Catherine Opie for the Los Angeles Times’s Image magazine about…

HUDSON, New York — I first saw Lothar Osterburg’s work in a group show in 2022, Still Life and the…

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

For this edition of Hyperallergic’s video essay column, we’re doing something a little different. Rather than the usual list of…

In this time of multiple global wars, genocides, and force displacements, art has a particularly important role to play in…

LOS ANGELES — Fleeting landscapes of the natural world and the body in motion are currently tucked away on a…

Victor Pascual, “Free Palestine” (designed 2023–24), digital artwork, 1080 by 1350 pixels (image courtesy the artist) On October 13, 2023,…

The naked body — or parts of it — appear a few times in Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art…

Quinten Massys’s “The Madonna of the Cherries” (1520s) before and after restoration (images courtesy Christie’s) A newly restored work by…

Late artist Joe Zucker (courtesy David Nolan Gallery) Joe Zucker, who passed away on May 15 at age 83, once…

After Jonathan Yeo’s “Portrait of His Majesty King Charles III” was unveiled at Buckingham Palace on May 14, its bold…

Elias Rischmawi, “Bonding Ritual, Miami” (2020) (courtesy the artist and Tunnel Projects) MIAMI — In The Poetics of Space, Gaston…

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This week, a compelling three-part limited series, Pompeii: The New Dig, premiered on PBS. Originally shot for the BBC, the…

Billionaire art collectors and art-world stakeholders discussed ways to get police to disband pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia University, according…

A group of School of Visual Arts (SVA) students and alumni staged a moving pro-Palestine demonstration last night, May 16,…

A group of fine arts students at Parsons School of Design has withdrawn artwork from their BFA thesis exhibition amid…

In the middle of her commencement speech, actor and poet Amanda Seales stepped away from the rostrum and turned around…

‣ This week marked 39 years since the Philadelphia police bombed the MOVE Black liberation group, killing 11 people and…

On May 6, two feminist activists entered Centre Pompidou-Metz in France and spray-painted Gustave Coubert’s 1866 work “The Origin of…

In the months preceding its release, Legacy Russell’s Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us (2024) generated…

Forge Project 2024 fellowship winners (clockwise from top left): Delbert Anderson (Navajo/Diné), Schon Matthew Duncan (United Keetoowah Band of the…

On the night of May 6, between dress adjustments, pearl placements, and camera flashes at the controversial Met Gala, 27…

Every May 15 for the last 76 years, Palestinians around the world commemorate the Nakba (Arabic for “the catastrophe”), during…

DETROIT — Above a little snarl where Detroit’s major freeways meet in the middle of the city, a towering mural…

Burning Man has removed a pro-Palestine artwork from its website days after a Change.org petition called to take it down.…

George Frederic Watts’s 1868 portrait of Thomas Carlyle at London’s National Portrait Gallery (all photos Michael Glover/Hyperallergic) LONDON — “It’s…

Louise Nevelson on the cover of the May 1979 issue of ArtNews with an annotated note to her granddaughter (image…

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, “Replenishing” (2001), composition of seven Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs, 88 1/2 x 66 inches (image courtesy the artist) Mother’s Day,…

I think most people have a memory of the first time they encountered something that seemed grown up and cool.…

The European Fine Art Fair, best known as TEFAF, is all about decadence. Its ninth New York edition, running through…

The Independent is 15. Hip, chic, and so boutique, the Manhattan art fair doesn’t want to grow up. It wants…

This afternoon, May 9, 21 undergraduate students affiliated with the Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD) Students for Justice in…

At least 100 demonstrators from student groups at New York City art schools gathered in Manhattan’s Cooper Square this afternoon,…

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen’s Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and…

The work “Prayers to Nana Buruku altar” (2017) was flagged by Providence College administrators for containing imagery offensive to the…

I first found out about the New York City-based artist collective Shanzhai Lyric a few years ago, after asking a…

VENICE — Tongan artist Latai Taumoepeau’s installation “Deep Communion sung in minor (ArchipelaGO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL)” features a…

Political cartoons abound, long-lost sculptures resurface, and strange monarchical monuments crop up in this month’s puzzle. Related Natan Last’s essays,…

As celebrities posed for the cameras on the Met Gala red carpet, hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters marched across Manhattan’s Upper…

GLENDALE, Calif. — By the time a product arrives in the public sphere, it often bears little trace of what…

In his nonfiction features, director D.W. Young explores New York City through hyper-niche perspectives. 2019’s The Booksellers delved into the…

From an occult Renaissance manuscript to the history of eyeliner, we’ve got you covered for books to read this summer.…

Remember when Frieze New York was new? It feels like eons ago. Back in 2012, the import of London’s latest…

Pro-Palestine activists staged a demonstration during the Whitney’s “Free Friday Night” event on Friday, May 3. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic…

Hundreds of students, faculty members, and New York University (NYU) community members marched outside of the university’s Elmer Holmes Bobst…

A student paints outside the School of Visual Arts (SVA) on May 2, 2024. (all photos Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic unless otherwise…

The brightly colored, angular abstractions of South African artist Esther Mahlangu, inspired by the Ndebele visual tradition, captivated me as…

Hours before mass arrests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) late last night, April 30, a…

Maybe it’s something in the springtime air — all the new growth and wild nature — but fantastical landscapes and…

This year, Cuba will not celebrate May Day with a parade in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution. It is only…

Dozens of students took over Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall earlier this morning, April 30, renaming the building “Hind’s Hall” in…

Marcelle Reinecke, “Detour” (2024), acrylic and flashe on panel, 20 x 16 inches (image courtesy the Ruffed Grouse Gallery) In…

The Chicago-based human rights organization Justice For All has filed a submission with the International Criminal Court (ICC) arguing that…

VENICE — The 60th Venice Biennale’s theme of “Foreigners Everywhere” includes a number of communities historically overlooked in art, like folks…

Faith Ringgold, “Picnic on the Grass Alone: The American Collection #12” (1997), acrylic on canvas with painted and pieced fabric (all…

LOS ANGELES — John Lithgow has an illustrious acting career going back five decades, with memorable roles on stage, screen,…

At a high-traffic corner of the New York Art Book Fair (NYABF), I found myself blinking at an arrangement of…

After a stint in a soulless Midtown Manhattan space last year, the world’s longest-running photo fair returns this weekend with…

The Gaza solidarity encampment at the City College of New York on Friday, April 26, 2024 (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) As…

A protester holds up a print of artist Pilar Veiga’s viral illustration in support of public education at the march…

On Tuesday morning, April 23, less than a week after more than 100 Columbia University students were suspended and arrested…

The release of the English translation of the 2016 photo book Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the…

Inigo Philbrick (photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) The Sony-owned production company Bad Wolf has secured the rights to a…

Caravaggio, “Death of the Virgin” (c. 1601–06), oil on canvas, 12 1/10 x 8 feet, held at the Louvre Museum…

VENICE — Beyond the Giardini’s national pavilions and the central exhibition at the Venice Biennale, visual culture abounds throughout the…

Bruce Yonemoto, “Untitled, 1” (2023) in the exhibition Scratching at the Moon” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (courtesy…

“Birds flying high, you know how I feel …” The opening line of the song “Feeling Good,” popularized in the…

Spyglass, part one of New York University’s (NYU) annual MFA thesis exhibition, opens with a work that showcases its own…

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” blared outside the Guggenheim Museum in New York City today, April 19, as around 20…

Soaking in the din of skateboards, stoners, shrieks, and street performers, a black turtle bean gradually germinates in the palm…

VENICE — I arrived at the Venice Biennale preview on Tuesday morning, April 16, a bit later than many of…

‣ Edward Thomas offers an analysis of the Civil War in Sudan for the Middle East Research and Information Project,…

VALLADOLID, Spain — The story of Spanish art in the 20th century has long been dominated by male artists working…

Swifties are swarming The Grove in Los Angeles in a days-long hunt for clues about Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album…

VENICE — A group of over 100 artists, art workers, and activists protested outside the Israeli and United States pavilions…

This month we’re featuring a poet who paints, a painter who tapes, a legendary feminist, and two sculptors who have…

Her face has gazed over midtown Manhattan traffic, hordes of tourists, and guests coming and going from the famed Plaza…

Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution…

It’s difficult to imagine a time when images of our faces were not only rare and expensive, but treated almost…

Faith Ringgold, a larger-than-life visual artist, quilter, storyteller, and activist, has passed away at age 93. Her death was confirmed…

Much as one might visit a prospective apartment at various hours of the day to gauge the quality of light,…

TULSA, Okla. — What would you do if you thought it was your last day? Philadelphia-based artist Lex Brown asks…

A sketch by Almallah in Border Wisdom (2023) (all images © Ahmad Almallah, 2024; courtesy Winter Editions) In his second…

I keep hearing people call the Whitney Biennial “safe.” It’s usually art-world people and critics, who tend to say it…

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered exceptionally preserved frescoes depicting legendary subjects of the Trojan War myth in a banquet hall…

‣ Elsa Delmas and the investigative team at Le Monde visualized the physical impact of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, detailing…

Santa Clara Pueblo artist Rose B. Simpson’s first New York City solo public artwork has arrived in Manhattan. Seven 18-foot-tall…

Big Apple brainiacs can test their knowledge of New York history and geography this week at one of the city’s…

IRVINE, California — Inside the Beall Center for Art + Technology, a trio of office chairs huddle together, as if…

In 1969, sending art over the telephone seemed far-fetched. It required extensive back and forth coordination, specialized engineers, and a…

Dinh Q. Lê, a multi-media artist whose work challenged global perceptions as well as internal censorship and exploitation in southern…

Millions looked skyward today, April 8, as the moon eclipsed the sun from Mexico’s Pacific Coast to Canada’s eastern shore.…

LONDON — The Wellcome Collection is an unusual place. I mean that sincerely as a compliment. It’s a rare example…

Archibald J. Motley, “The Liar” (1936) (all photos Zoë Hopkins/Hyperallergic) In the galleries of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism…

Only meters from Al-Shifa Hospital, the Shababeek for Contemporary Art building and other surrounding buildings were leveled during the Israeli…

‣ Setting the record straight on overwhelmingly White male architectural history, writer Prinita Thevarajah delves into the work of three women…

LOS ANGELES — Michelle Lopez’s “Correctional Lighting” (2024) is one of two massive sculptures that greet the viewer as they…

There was a time when I was quite excited to see Arcmanoro Niles’s paintings that utilized glitter to render the…

A new street sign commemorating New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) was added to East 23rd Street between Second…

If you’ve ever tried to photograph a solar eclipse, you know it’s tricky. (edit Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic, eclipse photo via Wikimedia…

Art museums are ostensibly public spaces, but generally, they function in a private manner, like corporations, at least until the…

A signed Andy Warhol screenprint of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong is mysteriously missing from a California collection. The 1972…

This month’s selections of art to see in and around Los Angeles examine the human condition through a range of…

In “Northern April” (1928), the great American poet, playwright, and feminist Edna St. Vincent Millay writes: “O April, full of…

After jointly presenting a show of 1913 Armory Show exhibition artists this past fall, Lincoln Glenn and Graham Shay 1857…

‣ The weird sales practices of Birkin bags are the stuff of legend and nightmares, so it’s interesting that there’s a…

Nits and fleas bedeviled the viscous skin of the 14th-century German Dominican mystic Henry Suso, who, slick with puss and…

Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), hand-woven tapestry with embellishments (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches Sam Dienst,…

Two museums bookend Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, a 2021 archival anthology edited by Howie Chen about the eponymous and…

Artist Richard Serra, whose monumental inhabitable sculptures warp our sense of space and time, died at his home in Long…

The British Museum is suing its former Senior Curator Peter Higgs over serious theft allegations. The London museum was granted…

A new feature raises concerns about content moderation and being silenced on Meta’s various platforms. (meme by Hyperallergic) Technology conglomerate…

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has apologized for preventing two visitors from entering the institution with…

On a sunny but cold Sunday afternoon, hundreds of pro-Palestine activists unfurled a massive quilt on the steps of the…

Mrs. Rabbit pours tea for Peter Rabbit while her other children watch. (1902–1907) (© Victoria and Albert Museum; image courtesy…

After a nearly year-long and highly publicized search, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has appointed its…

This week, the New Museum in New York City announced its temporary closure through early 2025 for a site expansion…

Thousands of Palestinian families are looking to evacuate into Egypt as the Israeli military has forced over a million civilians…

New Red Order: Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Adam and Zack Khalil (Ojibwe) with Riley Hooker, The World’s Unfair series (2023), posters…

‣ Powerhouse photorealist painter and longtime New York artist Audrey Flack, now 92 and still painting, talks with Curbed‘s Wendy…

A new bill introduced in the United States Congress yesterday, March 20, aims to establish a Smithsonian museum of American…