다양한 연령층이 강남달토에 오는 편이야?
다양한 연령층이 다양한 연령층이 강남달토에 오는 편이야? 이 질문은 강남달토를 처음 방문하려는 사람들에게 흥미로운 포인트가 됩니다. 많은 카페나 레스토랑이 특정 연령층을 타깃으로 하는 경우가 많지만, 강남달토는 남녀노소 누구나 편하게 즐길 수 있는 공간으로 알려져 있습니다. 실제로 강남달토를 방문해 보면, 젊은 대학생부터 직장인, 가족 단위 방문객, 심지어 중장년층까지 다양한 연령층이 함께 어울려 있는 모습을 쉽게 볼 […]
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In the fast-paced world of decentralized finance (DeFi), markets evolve rapidly, opportunities emerge constantly, and new protocols are launched every day. For anyone involved in this space, whether as a professional, investor, or enthusiast, one trait stands out as essential for long-term success: resilience. Resilience—the ability to adapt, learn, and thrive amid market fluctuations—is at […]
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Laura James Paints What America Wants to Forget
“Make work.” Laura James shared this concise yet powerful mantra with me during a visit to her Bronx studio in West Farms. A poster bearing the phrase hangs on her wall — a nod, she explained, to the influence of Marcus Garvey’s industrious philosophy. James doesn’t seek institutional permission; she makes art relentlessly, owns the […]
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Arewà Basit on Her Amy Sherald Portrait and Alchemizing Trans Joy
In the international queer community, Arewà Basit is known as a dancing, singing don-diva who makes music, performs in drag, and co-leads the Black queer production organization Legacy. These days, she’s also making headlines for being the subject of a “controversial” artwork by Amy Sherald. The controversy in question: a painting depicting her as the […]
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Independent Art Fair Partners With Sotheby’s, Raising Larger Market Questions
The art world has seen its fair share of eyebrow-raising brand collaborations in recent years. Damien Hirst made a bag for Prada festooned with bejeweled insects. Shepherd Fairey displayed his street art works on digital TVs in a partnership with LG Electronics at Frieze LA. And this spring, Takashi Murakami teamed up with Louis Vuitton […]
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What Does Anselm Kiefer Have to Do With Van Gogh?
LONDON — Demonstrating “influence” between artists is a thorny enterprise. Side-by-side comparisons can often reveal how one individual or movement’s technical practice or iconography was taken up and/or further developed by another, furthering art historical progression — yet confirmation bias can underpin curatorial efforts, resulting in an optimistic assertion of direct influence where coincidence may be […]
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Art Loves You Back When People Don’t
Obsession often does an artist good. That idea she can’t stop thinking about, that uncompleted project that keeps her up at night — such fixations compel her to create, focus her efforts, and keep her returning to the desk, the stage, the studio. But not all obsessions are equally generative. Stephanie Wambugu’s stimulating debut novel, […]
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Art on Paper Leaps Off the Page
As I circled around the dozens of booths along the three wide lanes at Art on Paper on Thursday, September 4, one stood out above the rest. On the bare white walls were Moleskine journals, much like the small ones I use, except these were spread open to Nicolas V Sanchez’s ballpoint pen drawings of […]
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Robert Grosvenor, Who Refused to Be Defined by Genre, Dies at 88
Robert Grosvenor, whose work resisted artistic classification for more than six decades, died in Long Island, New York, on Wednesday, September 3, at the age of 88. His death was announced by Paula Cooper Gallery, which has represented the artist since the gallery opened in 1968. Grosvenor was primarily known for large-scale abstract sculptures, although […]
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How New Collector Habits Are Shaking Up Art Fair Season
Eduardo Holgado encounters most of his art on Instagram now, perusing posts from galleries and artists before ever setting foot in a fair. But when it comes time to buy, the collector, who is in his early 30s, still needs to experience the work in person. It’s Thursday, September 4, day one of the Armory […]
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At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight
Calling Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka’s solo presentation at the Armory Show a “booth” feels somehow wrong, like a reduction of the all-encompassing sanctum that she and Toronto gallery Patel Brown assembled for the Manhattan art fair. Suspended gently from wooden rods are billowing linocut and gyotaku prints on handmade Japanese washi paper in deep indigos and […]
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Curator Targeted by Trump Tapped to Lead Milwaukee Art Museum
Historian and curator Kim Sajet, who recently left her longtime post as director at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after President Donald Trump claimed he had fired her, will be the next director of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), the institution announced yesterday, September 3. Sajet will assume the new role on September 22, succeeding […]
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Smithsonian Secretary Responds to Trump’s Museum Crackdown
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch sent a letter to the Trump administration responding to a list of demands the White House presented last month as it attempts to assert control over the institution. Bunch’s direct response to the White House comes more than three weeks after the administration attempted to compel the museum and research network […]
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Eight Arts Writers Awarded 2025 Rabkin Prizes
Left to right: Tempestt Hazel, American Meredith, Jessica Lynne, Nicole Martinez, Paul Chaat Smith, Eva Recinos, Brandy McDonnell, and J Worham (photo by Kevin J. Miyazak, courtesy Rabkin Foundation) The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation named eight arts writers as recipients of its prestigious annual prize in recognition of the contributions of visual arts journalists. […]
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Elizabeth Foundation Makes Offer on Iconic Chelsea Artist Building
A view of the 508-534 West 26th Street building complex in West Chelsea, Manhattan (photo Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) An esteemed nonprofit wants to turn a West Chelsea arts building on the market into an artist residency program while keeping longtime tenants in their studios. The Wolff Building at 508-534 West 26th Street was listed on the […]
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The Art Crossword: Museum-Lover’s Edition
PM_Config.PM_BasePath = “https://cdn2.amuselabs.com/pmm/”; We love a good museum visit, and we’re guessing you do, too — test your knowledge with this month’s puzzle to kick off fall, with clues on Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda, the Parisian railway station that became an art museum, LA’s storied art museum and research center, and more.
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Marian Spore Bush Was Nobody’s “Visionary Artist”
“Who was Marian Spore Bush?” The question begins an essay by Bob Nickas, who curated the exhibition Marian Spore Bush: Life Afterlife, Works c. 1919–1945, currently at Karma. The artist’s first solo exhibition in almost 80 years, it feels extraordinarily modern in both style and content. Vivid, saturated watercolors of flowers and Christian allegories in […]
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The Prescient Politics of Nancy Buchanan’s Art
LOS ANGELES — Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan: A Retrospective at the Brick, a comprehensive survey of the LA-based artist’s work, is as sprawling and diverse as the city she calls home. Buchanan studied art at the University of California, Irvine, from 1965 to 1971, along with fellow classmates (and single mothers) Barbara T. Smith and Marcia […]
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Decode the Art Fair Lingo With Our Armory Show Bingo Card
Each year, come September, we all pretend the world isn’t burning and put on our best oversized shirt to work our way through the maze of booths that is New York’s Armory Show. For those of you who want to know where to go and what to see, here’s our guide to the fall’s fairs. […]
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The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
LONDON — Some of the Courtauld’s previous exhibitions have suffered from insufficient curation. Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams, Eva Hesse, on the other hand, strikes the exact right balance. Drawing on scholar Jo Applin’s research, curator Alexandra Gerstein has taken as a starting point the work of feminist curator and critic Lucy Lippard, who coined the titular […]
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The Artist Whose Fauci Portraits Enraged the White House
In 2019, Hugo Crosthwaite became the first Latino artist to win the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) prestigious triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Tijuana-born and San Diego-based illustrator received the contest’s grand prize: $25,000 and a portrait commission for the museum’s permanent collection. He chose to depict Anthony Fauci, then the director of the […]
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World’s Largest Van Gogh Collection Faces Uncertain Future
Since 1973, Vincent van Gogh masterpieces including his beloved sunflowers, wistful wheatfields, and self-portraits have been housed in Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. The institution was established via a historic 1962 agreement between the painter’s nephew and the Dutch government to ensure the long-term preservation of hundreds of paintings, drawings, and letters comprising van Gogh’s oeuvre. […]
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Facing $15M Budget Deficit, CalArts Lays Off Workers
A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at one of the best-known arts schools in the country as the institution grapples with rising costs. The Santa Clarita-based private arts school laid off nine administrative employees in July, including five unionized workers and four non-union workers, […]
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The 2025 NY Art Book Fair Returns to MoMA PS1
Initiated in 2006, the NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is a celebration and international gathering for artists’ book publishers to distribute their work, connect with broad audiences, and nurture new and longstanding relationships. This year’s fair marks an exciting and long-awaited return to MoMA PS1, Printed Matter’s venue partner from 2009–2019, a pivotal decade in […]
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Facing $15M Budget Deficit, CalArts Lays Off 12 Workers
A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at one of the best-known arts schools in the country as the institution grapples with rising costs. The Santa Clarita-based private arts school laid off 12 administrative employees in July, including five unionized workers and seven non-union workers, […]
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Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
SAN MARINO, Calif. — Standing in the gallery of Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight, you are bathed in oceanic, cobalt blue light. The buzz of neon lights drones in the background. It’s hard to say if the temperature has truly dropped, or if it’s psychosomatic, that the atmosphere has cooled your skin just by the power […]
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Smithsonian Latino Gallery Quietly Closes for Nine Months
The Molina Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which has served as the home of the nascent Latino museum, will stay closed until April 2026. (all images courtesy Felipe Galindo) On Friday morning, August 22, illustrator Felipe Galindo Gómez opened his email to find a note from his friend. “Have […]
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Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?
LONDON — Of all the YBAs (Young British Artists) of the 1990s — including upstarts like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, mouthing off petulantly to the art establishment with dead livestock and unmade beds — it is Jenny Saville who has been most entrenched in the history of art. It is also Saville who can […]
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An Insider’s Guide to NYC’s Fall 2025 Art Fairs
It’s about that time of year when the slight crisping of the air signals that the balmy summer is departing, but hasn’t disappeared just yet. Suddenly, the fluorescent lights, lively chatter, and overpriced opening wine flowing onto the New York City streets beckon the passerby who has spent all summer tanning in Central Park. It’s […]
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Amy Sherald Speaks Out on Cancelling Her Smithsonian Show
Amy Sherald, the painter most widely known for her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, detailed her decision to withdraw her exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) amid concerns over censorship at the institution in a new opinion piece. On MSNBC’s opinion blog last Sunday, August 24, Sherald condemned the Trump administration’s […]
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A Landmark Raphael Retrospective Is Coming to The Met
Raphael, “The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna)” (1509–11) (image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) “How generous and kind Heaven sometimes proves to be,” mused Italian Renaissance artist and historian Giorgio Vasari, “when it brings together in a single person the boundless riches of its […]
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Dust Storm Blows Away Ukrainian Artwork at Burning Man
Ferocious desert stormwinds have swept away a colossal Ukrainian artwork within hours of its installation at the annual Burning Man cultural festival in Nevada. A visual metaphor for the impending threat of war, the 50-foot-tall (~15.2-meter-tall) inflatable “Black Cloud” was destroyed shortly after debuting at the Black Rock Desert event yesterday, August 24, on Ukraine’s […]
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Colorado Town Settles With Native Artist Who Brought Free Speech Lawsuit
Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta painter Danielle SeeWalker has settled a civil rights lawsuit with the town of Vail, Colorado, more than a year after the municipality cancelled her artist residency over a pro-Palestine artwork. Brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado, the suit claimed that the town had violated the artist’s constitutional right to […]
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The Life-or-Death Art of Hamad Butt
LONDON — There is something both frightening and fascinating about a sculpture that could kill you. Hamad Butt’s Familiars (1992) is a series of three sculptures that, if broken, could toxify the air and cause significant harm. “Familiars 3: Cradle” resembles a huge Newton’s cradle, common as a desk toy, wherein a ball is dropped […]
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Sandra Poulson’s Haunted House
The Surrealists understood that so much depends on context: What is ordinary lining a glove, for instance, becomes grotesque in a teacup. Angolan artist Sandra Poulson — who studied fashion in Lisbon and London, and lives between the latter, Angola’s capital, Luanda, and Amsterdam — operates under a similar ethos of off-kilter recontextualization. In her […]
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Erasure of Rainbow Memorial for Pulse Shooting Victims Raises Alarm in Florida
The Orange Avenue crossing before and after it was paved over (image courtesy Office of Mayor Buddy Dyer) Orlando residents and Florida public officials are decrying the state’s removal of a rainbow crosswalk memorial honoring the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. Late Wednesday evening, August 20, state officials reportedly paved over a multicolored […]
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Kenny Nguyen: The Divine Eye
Kenny Nguyen: The Divine Eye is an evocative, large-scale installation that invites viewers to engage with the rich spiritual and cultural history of Vietnam through the lens of Caodaism. Rooted in the synthesis of Eastern and Western philosophies, Caodaism — a syncretic religion founded in Vietnam in the 1920s — serves as both inspiration and […]
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Ancient Sculptures Recovered From Sunken City Off Alexandria
Pieces of limestone buildings, marble and granite royal statues, and the remains of a merchant ship are among the relics of an ancient sunken city retrieved by Egyptian authorities off the shores of Alexandria. Dating back more than 2,000 years, the artifacts were reportedly hoisted from a submerged archaeological site in Abu Qir Bay yesterday, […]
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The Mesmerizing Wonder of Wabanaki Weaving
GREENWICH, Conn. — Jeremy Frey weaves slim strips of wood into mesmerizing patterns and color combinations with extreme precision. In each impeccable vessel, ancestral Wabanaki basketmaking traditions crisscross with the Passamaquoddy artist’s distinctive creative vision, and wood harvested from ash trees, sweetgrass, and other foraged materials turn kaleidoscopic, with dizzying geometric patterns and colorwork. A […]
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Trump Targets LGBTQ+ History, Migrants, and More in Chilling Smithsonian Hit List
Rigoberto A. González, “Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas” (2020) was among the artworks targeted in a statement from the White House on August 21, 2025. (photo courtesy the artist) In the wake of Trump’s Truth Social rant earlier this week, in which he accused the Smithsonian of focusing too much on “how […]
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A Cézanne Celebration as Sweet as a Bowl of Apples
The south of France is known for its idyllic coastal climate, lush vineyards, and charming villages that date back to Roman times. But for now, the region wants you to think of Paul Cézanne, a Provence native son whose focus on the underlying geometrical shapes of objects and multiple viewpoints within a painting inspired many […]
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Did This 19th-Century Painting Inspire Taylor Swift’s New Album Art?
John Everett Millais, “Ophelia” (1851-2) (image via Wikimedia Commons, PDM 1.0) A 19th-century artwork that has inspired artists from Surrealist Salvador Dalí to contemporary painter Ed Ruscha may be the influence behind the cover for Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album, The Life of A Showgirl. The dramatic teal green and reddish-orange cover art, shared by Swift […]
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Rashid Johnson Is “Not Afraid to Be Vulnerable”
Four months into the run of his career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contemporary artist Rashid Johnson appeared on CBS Sunday Morning this week to discuss 30 years of art making. Johnson sat down with the network’s Alina Cho at his studio and the museum amid his exhibition A Poem for Deep Thinkers, […]
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Mickalene Thomas Accused of Harassment and Nonpayment by Ex-Fiancée
Mickalene Thomas’s former fiancée and business partner has accused the contemporary artist of sexual harassment, nonpayment, and workplace retaliation in a lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court on August 8. Racquel Chevremont is seeking at least $10 million, as well as interest and attorneys’ fees, in “redress for years of exploitation, nonpayment, and […]
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Senator Seeks Probe Into MoMA Trustee Leon Black’s Epstein Ties
Leon Black at the Museum of Modern Art’s film benefit on November 19, 2018 (photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) A Democratic senator and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee is calling for a probe into the embattled financier and Museum of Modern Art trustee Leon Black over payments he made to sex predator Jeffrey […]
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Dispatches From the Ever-Evolving Santa Fe Indian Market
SANTA FE — Every third weekend in August, New Mexico’s capital becomes a hub of Indigenous creativity for the Santa Fe Indian Market, hosted by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA). This year, the air felt charged as lightning propelled down from monsoon-filled clouds at the start of the weekend, but it didn’t take […]
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Art and Resilience Aligned at This Year’s BlackStar Film Festival
The 14th iteration of the BlackStar Film Festival returned to Philadelphia from July 31 to August 3 with a robust program championing independent Black, Brown, and Indigenous film and media artists. BlackStar’s commitment to uplifting such voices is especially resonant due to the Trump administration’s sweeping dismantling of DEI measures; the festival’s 92 films from […]
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Agnès Varda’s Photographic Odes to Queer Paris
PARIS — The bowl cut, the cats, the heart-shaped potatoes. The predilection for loopy plots and faces hidden in household objects. Whether posing with angel wings or swallowed by a giant Muppet-like coat, the late artist and filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928–2019) has long been a patron saint of the unabashedly eccentric. A master of self-invention, […]
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It’s Time to Rethink the 50/50 Split With Art Galleries
Why should the creator of the artwork only get 50%? (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) August is when the capitalist parts of the art world go to sleep. This summer’s pause by the Art Dealers Association of America’s Art Show (ADAA) makes that quiet feel even heavier. The fair has long been a commercial anchor for […]
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Dana Awartani’s Gentle Reparation of Gaza
BRISTOL, England — Last year, Bristol’s Arnolfini cancelled two Bristol Palestine Film Festival events, leading to controversy and a boycott. After mediation with local groups such as Bristol Artists for Palestine, Arnolfini issued a statement apologizing for the decision and committing to upholding Palestinian freedom of expression in the future. Their current exhibition, Standing by […]
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Trump Wants “American Exceptionalism” at the Smithsonian. Will He Get It?
The Trump administration will begin a “comprehensive internal review” of the Smithsonian Institution, including an examination of exhibitions, curatorial processes, educational materials, and programming related to the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding. In a letter addressed to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch yesterday, August 12, White House officials asked the institution to turn […]
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For $9.5M, Rothko’s Former Home and Studio Could Be Yours
Mark Rothko’s former apartment and studio in Manhattan’s Lenox Hill, where he created the paintings for his renowned Rothko Chapel in Texas, is back on the market. Sotheby’s Realty is asking $9.5 million for the red-brick converted carriage house at 157 East 69th Street, according to a listing. Built in 1884 by German-American architect William […]
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A Photographic History of Queer Intimacy
LOS ANGELES — A circa 1848 daguerrotype featuring a nude lesbian couple engaging in foreplay meets Matías Sauter Morera’s AI-assisted fictional portrait of what he terms a “pegamacho,” a rural heterosexual Costa Rican man known to have discreet sexual encounters with gay men, in Queer Lens: A History of Photography at the Getty Museum. This […]
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Visitors Can’t Keep Their Hands Off This Eggplant Artwork
Museum visitors in Singapore have reportedly had difficulty keeping their hands off a wall installation consisting of dozens of mounted eggplants. The artwork, “Still Life” (1992/2025) by Suzann Victor, is part of the ongoing exhibition Singapore Stories: Pathways and Detours in Art at the National Gallery Singapore (NGS). The Strait Times reported earlier this month that visitors had […]
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Kasmin and Clearing Galleries Announce Closures
The wave of gallery closures that has roiled the art world in recent months continues this week with the back-to-back announcements of the shuttering of Kasmin and Clearing galleries. Manhattan’s Kasmin Gallery, which represents artists including Joel Shapiro, Diana Al-Hadid, Judith Bernstein, and the estates of William N. Copley and Jackson Pollock, will close its […]
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A Moving Encounter With the Art of Bernard Williams
CHICAGO — Nearly every summer in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, some genuinely dumb public art is trotted out for the entertainment of visitors and residents alike. Sometimes it’s life-size fiberglass cows, other times giant butterflies. The most dreadful ones are readymade kits of vibrant junk that cities can mail-order to jazz up their shopping […]
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Kour Pour Reclaims the Geometry of Abstraction
Kour Pour, “Twice Removed” (2025), acrylic, block ink, and esphand on shaped canvases (all images courtesy Kour Pour Studio, unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — For artist Kour Pour, challenging the Euro-American art historical canon has been a decade-long pursuit. In 2015, the artist began a research project titled “Re-Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925” that was later […]
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Haunted by the Gray
Amy Sherald, “As American as Apple Pie” (2020) in Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hyperallergic) Once, when I was involved in a romance that was slowly coming to a close, I described to my then-partner that I felt like my life was losing color. On seeing Amy Sherald’s […]
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New York City Shows We Love Right Now
If we need anything from art at this dire time, it’s faith and fun. The shows below encourage flights into the imagination or nurture hope for the future. Artist Tove Jansson and her Moomins creations are nothing if not beacons of warmth and inclusivity, while EJ Hill’s installation and endurance performance transforms 52 Walker gallery […]
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The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: Public Art Edition
Public art has no single form — it’s that mural you pass on your daily commute, the sculpture gracing your favorite local park, a statue installed near a busy intersection. Test your knowledge of public art gems from around the world in this month’s themed puzzle, from the Windy City to Paris. Natan Last’s essays, […]
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Three US Museums Receive Trove of 64 Modern Artworks
Amedeo Modigliani’s “Jean Cocteau” (1916) was gifted to the Brooklyn Museum as part of a major donation. (all photos by Bruce White, courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) Three major museums in the United States will receive the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation’s complete collection of modern, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist artworks, the organization announced today, August 4. […]
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Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art
LOS ANGELES — “The art department is one excellent example of how the arts of peace become the arts of war,” says the narrator of a United States Army film production over documentary footage of male figures drawing before it cuts to a clip of an animated cartoon plane “learning” to fly. The short video […]
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Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing
HOUSTON — To say that I’m drawn to Jillian Conrad’s art might sound like an all-too-easy pun in a review of a show that explores drawing, but the sentiment holds. Since the early aughts, I’ve been following the psychic line of her practice. Conrad’s work marks the distance between what we see and how we […]
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Opportunities for Artists, Writers, and Art Workers in August 2025
Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox each month. Sign up here! If you find this list valuable, consider becoming a Hyperallergic Member to help us make it possible every month. […]
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Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment Reference
The Smithsonian Institution has removed a label from the National Museum of American History exhibition The American Presidency that referenced Donald Trump’s two impeachments. The news of the removal was first reported this week by the Washington Post and confirmed to Hyperallergic by a Smithsonian spokesperson. The exhibition alteration comes months after the Trump administration […]
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Homeland Security’s Genocidal Aesthetics
The Department of Homeland Security posted John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress” (screenshot Hyperallergic, via X) Prussian painter John Gast’s 1872 composition “American Progress,” now held by the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, isn’t very good. An unsubtle celebration of Manifest Destiny, the 19th-century American mania for westward expansion at the […]
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Raymond Saunders, Who Made the Color Black His Own, Dies at 90
Portrait of American artist Raymond Saunders (1970s) (photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images) Raymond Saunders, whose collage-based paintings and installation works grappled with the complexities of lived experience, racial identity, and broader sociopolitical structures, died on July 19 in Oakland, California. He was 90 years old. The news of his death was announced in a joint […]
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How My Museum’s Celebration of America’s 250th Birthday Got Complicated
A visitor leaves a “birthday wish” for the United States’ 250th Anniversary at the New York Historical (photo courtesy the museum) I work at the New York Historical, a national history museum in New York City, and am tasked with helping to build thoughtful programming on how to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026. […]
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Anti-Gentrification Protest Targets Mexico City Contemporary Art Museum
MEXICO CITY — A group of anti-gentrification protesters vandalized the contemporary art museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on Sunday, July 20, as demonstrations against rising housing prices and the growing displacement of local residents continue across the city. Black bloc protesters graffitied and broke windows on the campus before arriving at […]
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New York City and Upstate Shows to See Right Now
Sometimes it seems like the art world has a short attention span, skipping from one trend to the next, so it’s satisfying to find exhibitions that hold onto histories and memories. In different ways, the shows below all maintain a connection with the past. For artists Candida Alvarez and Thomas Holton, this may mean summoning […]
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Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting
Wesley LePatner (image courtesy Blackstone) Wesley LePatner, an elective trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Blackstone executive, was among the four individuals killed after a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building yesterday evening, July 28. LePatner, who is survived by her husband and two children, was elected by The Met’s […]
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A Glimpse Inside the Dizzying Psyche of Daniel Johnston
A drawing by Daniel Johnston (image courtesy Daniel Johnston Trust, all others Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic) I was in my second year of college when I first heard about the alternative folk artist Daniel Johnston. It was the fall of 2017, two years before his death, and a classmate I liked wanted to show me a song. […]
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A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”
LOS ANGELES — From the 1920s to ’60s, the Catskill Mountains, with its woody resorts and bungalows, were a playground for middle-class Jewish families traveling Upstate from New York City. Dads grilled while lounging mothers shielded beehive hairdos from their children’s poolside splashing, and dinners were marked by heaps of sour cream on plates of […]
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How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art
Helen Chadwick, latex costume used in “Domestic Sanitation” (1976) (© Estate of Helen Chadwick) It is perhaps a testament to the enduring power of the titular British artist’s oeuvre that, even at a substantial 272 pages, Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures still feels as if it is only scratching the surface of her work and life. […]
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BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World
Still from Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez’s TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025), which will kick off this year’s BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia (all images courtesy BlackStar Film Festival) A prolific storyteller, transformative educator, and devoted political activist, Toni Cade Bambara dedicated her life’s work to countering hegemonic institutional power […]
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10 Bay Area Art Shows for the Dog Days of Summer
I spent a few weeks abroad this summer, and it was a relief to be away from the United States and its deluge of bad news — but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss San Francisco and its thriving art scene. If you’re similarly playing catch-up, look no further than this list […]
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Refik Anadol’s Soulless AI Tribute to Leo Messi
Refik Anadol set himself up for failure. For his latest work, the artist best known for his shapeshifting AI installation at the Museum of Modern Art set out to immortalize a moment of sports legend: Lionel Messi’s 2009 towering header goal for FC Barcelona, which helped clinch its victory against Manchester United in the UEFA […]
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lays Off 12 Workers
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the umbrella institution overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums in the city, laid off 12 workers, citing a 20% drop in museum visitors since the pandemic and “increased operational costs.” The layoffs affected approximately 3.5% of FAMSF’s total workforce, which comprises roles funded by […]
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A Hollywood Hills Gallery-Home Is Reborn as an Artist’s Residency
LOS ANGELES — In 1933, German-Jewish artist, art collector, and art dealer Galka Scheyer commissioned architect Richard Neutra to build her a house in the Hollywood Hills. Scheyer had moved to the United States in 1924 with the goal of promoting European modern art, specifically a group of artists known as the Blue Four: Lyonel […]
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Andres Serrano Proposes Trump Altar for the Venice Biennale
New York City-born artist and provocateur Andres Serrano wants the United States Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale to showcase his apparently uncritical display of more than a thousand Trump memorabilia items, including a flattering, warm-hued portrait of the president he took in 2004 as part of his series America. Serrano, who rose to notoriety […]
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Amy Sherald Cancels Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship of Trans Artwork
A visitor with Amy Sherald’s painting “Trans Forming Liberty” (2024) at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) The painter Amy Sherald has rescinded her upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, citing censorship concerns. The artist told the New York Times that she learned the museum was […]
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Chance Encounters at Upstate Art Weekend 2025
The month of July brings Upstate Art Weekend (UAW), an annual summer cornucopia of art in the region. Launched in 2020 with 23 organizations, UAW has expanded to include more than 155 participants located across the map, from Nyack in the south and Kinderhook in the north to Roscoe in the west and Wassaic to […]
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Trump Withdraws US From UNESCO, Again
President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the second time in the government’s latest blow to global cultural heritage preservation. In a brief statement posted to the Department of State website on Tuesday, July 22, spokesperson Tammy Bruce said UNESCO’s recognition of Palestine as […]
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Chicago Nonprofit Celebrates a Decade of Serving Unhoused Artists
CHICAGO — Do people need art? I know I always have, as something to enjoy, discuss, learn from, be puzzled by, and sometimes create. Obviously, I need food, shelter, and clothing first, but beyond that, art has given me a myriad of ways through which to engage with the world in all its fantastic, boring, […]
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Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
A day after Independence Day in the United States, the world’s richest man announced on X that he would form a new political party called the America Party. A follow-up from Elon Musk revealed that he intended to break up the current “uniparty” system through the use of an Ancient Greek military tactic, “a variant […]
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How “Coldplaygate” Became the Meme of the Summer
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” reimagined for the moment (via @memequeen and @esixus on Instagram, all screenshots Hyperallgic) As we all vie for a distraction from the world’s woes, an alleged affair exposed via the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert has become the meme of the summer. Over the past week, the internet has been reveling […]
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Art Bridges Supports Museums Nationwide
Most American art lives in storage. Many museums, especially those in underserved regions, don’t have the resources to borrow or lend works. That’s where Art Bridges comes in. What We Do By partnering with museums across the United States, Art Bridges breaks down barriers to sharing, borrowing, and exhibiting artworks, ensuring that communities across the […]
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“The First Homosexuals” Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life
CHICAGO — The history of art, stated curator Jonathan D. Katz, “is both the world’s largest archive of the history of sexuality and its least tapped.” This may be a good place to begin to unpack the immense, important, ambitious, challenging, and intellectual exhibition The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869–1939 at […]
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Required Reading
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The Renaissance, But Make It “Game of Thrones”
A documentary can sometimes tell a viewer more about the time it was made than the one it recounts. This holds especially true for films about the Renaissance, which has been so meticulously covered that new revelations are farther and fewer between. The three-part BBC docuseries Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, currently airing and […]
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Artists and the Alchemy of Color
Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on August 12, 2025, for a virtual conversation with two renowned artists about the materiality of paint: Rina Banerjee and Ellie Irons. The speakers will delve into the particularities of working with different pigments and surfaces, the process and chemistry behind creating their own paint, and how they […]
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An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness
Few of Japan’s great photographers had a career as bold and multifaceted as Masahisa Fukase. Though largely defined by his black and white magnum opus Ravens (1986), a book of photographs in which the photographer casts himself as the grim black bird, Fukase managed to express facets of himself through many different proxies. He shot […]
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Trump Gifted Epstein a Lewd Drawing on His Birthday, Report Says
A crude sketch of a naked woman allegedly hand-drawn by President Donald Trump was in a salacious 50th birthday album gifted to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Wall Street Journal report published yesterday, July 17. The lewd drawing was part of a typewritten birthday note bearing Trump’s alleged signature that was addressed […]
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Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life
SAN FRANCISCO — Ruth Asawa’s infant son, Paul, lies on a blanket in a tender ink drawing entitled “Untitled (FF.1234, Paul Lanier on a Blanket)” (c. 1962–63). Paul takes up just a small portion of the overall composition, his clothing rendered through hatch marks that blend in with those filling the rest of the picture […]
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Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan Banana Invests $100M in Trump Crypto
Crypto mogul Justin Sun is — unsurprisingly — making another controversial investment decision, and this time, we wish it were just an overpriced fruit duct-taped to a wall. Last Wednesday, July 9, the notorious buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” (2019) announced that he is purchasing $100 million worth of President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency token, $TRUMP. Already […]
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Yale Art Gallery Withdraws Federal Grant Requests After Trump DEI Ban
The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven has withdrawn two federal grant requests for a forthcoming Southeast African art exhibition in the wake of Trump’s bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming and initiatives. To cover the $200,000 funding gap, the oldest university art museum in America will rely on its endowment to […]
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Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art
HAMBURG, Germany — Only July 9, 1975, the artist Bas Jan Ader, age 33, set sail from Cape Cod, intending to cross the Atlantic in a 12.6-foot vessel called Ocean Wave and then mount an exhibition at the Groninger Museum in his native Netherlands. The journey was, famously, never completed. The battered boat was found […]
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10 Upstate Art Weekend Destinations Worth the Trip
It’s that time of the year again when the sweltering, swampy heat of New York City has even the cockroaches stumbling down its sidewalks. For those who find themselves among the swarms of city folk hopping aboard the Hudson Line this week to catch their breath and clear their heads in the Catskills, be sure […]
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Artists Decry Centre Pompidou’s Cancellation of Caribbean Art Exhibition
Nearly 150 artists, curators, and other cultural figures signed an open letter denouncing the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s decision to abruptly call off an exhibition centering on contemporary Franco-Creole, Caribbean French, and Guyanese art. The cancellation, which was formalized in a June 10 notice, followed months of planning and a series of tense text message exchanges between […]
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Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
Julia Margaret Cameron, “Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!” (1867), carbon print (© The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A) One word that kept coming to mind as I thought about the shows below is “visionary.” Whether it’s reimagining the ways that women are discussed in literature or centered in photography, or […]
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Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way
The sky has been a source of inspiration for artists since time immemorial. But our collective understanding of just how far into the past artistic representations of this expanse may reach — and how faithfully they reflect actual cosmology — is an ever-changing picture. New research published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage […]
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The Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House
The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens frames the story differently depending on who is doing the looking, and how. So what are we to make of the images of a woman in a glass house, the history of which has been obscured by […]
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A View From the Easel
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Shamim M. Momin Is the Bronx Museum’s New Director
Shamim M. Momin will begin her tenure as director and chief curator of the Bronx Museum. (photo by Sue de Beer, courtesy Bronx Museum) Shamim M. Momin, cofounder of the public art nonprofit Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), will lead the Bronx Museum beginning this September. The museum announced Momin’s appointment as director and chief […]
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Buffalo Museum Cancels Event After Backlash Against Texas Flood Cartoon
The Buffalo News published a cartoon about the Texas floods that sparked outrage from some audiences. (screenshot Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic via @adamzyglis on Instagram) An event that spotlighted the work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Buffalo History Museum was postponed this week following mounting public backlash, including alleged death threats, over a recent illustration […]
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Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway
One of the best parts about aging, as an artist and a woman, is finding untapped confidence and reaching the absolute heights of your technical abilities and means of expression. Unless you are photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose recent Vogue cover shoot with actor Anne Hathaway, in support of her forthcoming A24 film Mother Mary, has […]
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What Were Federal Agents Doing at a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?
Federal agents paid an unexpected visit to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (NMPRAC) in Chicago earlier this week in what the museum has described as a “targeted” attempt to intimidate staff and visitors ahead of a lineup of Latine cultural celebrations. Security footage shared with Hyperallergic shows two individuals, one wearing […]
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Why Take a Selfie in 2025?
I thought my days of writing about selfies were over. My book The Selfie Generation (2017) had done its job: It chronicled the form’s rise into the mainstream, from becoming Oxford Dictionaries’ “Word of the Year” in 2013 to transforming TV shows, pop psychology, marketing, and visibility for marginalized people. Today, the selfie has become […]
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Penn Museum Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
On the heels of a historic municipal work stoppage that left Philadelphia’s streets drowning in mounting garbage piles, unionized staff at the Penn Museum are inching toward a strike to obtain higher wages from the University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in the city. Members of Penn Museum Workers United Local 397, which represents […]
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Moki Cherry, the Swedish Designer Who Blurred Art and Life
Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry had a boundless art practice that extended out to the literal walls of her daily existence. This fall, a retrospective at the Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) in Philadelphia will explore the breadth and scope of this kaleidoscopic and eclectic artist through her fiber works, costumes, ceramics, sound and […]
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New App Turns Mobile Boarding Passes Into JD Vance Memes
It’s been nearly a month since 21-year-old Mads Mikkelsen was denied entry into the United States after border agents discovered a bloated JD Vance meme and a photo of a pipe on his cell phone. Though Mikkelsen is back at home in Norway instead of visiting his friends and exploring US national parks with his […]
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When Art Meets Nature
For the first time, the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery Singapore have come together to present When Art Meets Nature, a children’s art exhibition open from July 2 to November 9, 2025, at the Taoyuan Children’s Art Center. Interactive installations, audiovisual works, multi-sensory explorations, and immersive environments present a view of […]
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The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: July 2025
Answer: They’re in this month’s crossword! Dig into our July art puzzle with more clues on the French term that gave Fauvism its name, Ai Weiwei’s infamous photo series, the Central Park Fountain designed by a queer 19th-century sculptor, and more. Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, […]
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Bard MFA Presents the Class of 2026 Thesis Exhibition
The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents Double Take: the Class of 2026 Thesis Exhibition, which brings together the culminating work of third-year MFA candidates at the Bard Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery in Red Hook, New York. Thesis events will begin with performances at Olin Hall on the Bard […]
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10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York July 2025
As another Independence Day comes and goes, and our nation is increasingly compromised, we lean ever further into our collective dedication to art and the creative courage it delivers throughout the season. This July, the bounty of exhibitions in Upstate New York includes a solo show of abstract paintings by Philip Gebhardt and spiritually infused […]
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Trump Seeks to Defund Institute of American Indian Arts
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the only four-year school devoted to contemporary Indigenous arts, could lose all of its federal funding beginning October 1 if President Trump’s proposed federal budget is passed. Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal suggests completely eliminating funding for the IAIA, which received approximately $13 million in the prior […]
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10 Shows to See in Los Angeles July 2025
A refusal to adhere to distinct categories, a breakdown of hierarchies, and an embrace of hybridity are a few common threads among this month’s exhibitions. At Karma, Mungo Thomson plumbs the depths of mundane visual culture to create entrancing stop-motion videos. A Llyn Foulkes survey at The Pit celebrates this LA legend, a master of […]
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A View From the Easel
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An Artist’s Fourth of July Muppets Parody
To our friends of the human persuasion: Ten years ago the Muppets made a show called The Great Moments in American History. We really do wish that we could make a sequel. But we’re too worried about the direction this country is heading. No PBS? Banned books? ICE raids at kids’ schools? Yikes! It’s not […]
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What Can History Museums Offer in the Trump Era?
“May we wake up from the nightmare that is our current leadership by voting for leaders who care about the people and fulfill our potential as a great country.” — Shelly, Washington, DC “Happy Birthday, America! We’re back baby!!! GOD Bless America.” — Sarah, Tennessee “I pray that our 250th anniversary will not be our […]
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Five Art Books for Your July 2025 Reading List
Take a moment to recall the last time you heard the sound of the ocean. Maybe it’s been years, or perhaps you’re listening to its roar right now. Wherever this summer brings you, I hope you’ll find something meditative in the pages of this month’s art books. A new title on Edith Farnsworth, owner of […]
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Khaled Sabsabi Reinstated as Australia’s Venice Biennale Artist
Artist Khaled Sabsabi (left) and curator Michael Dagostino (right) (photo by Anna Kucera for Creative Australia) Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino will represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale after Creative Australia, the selection body for the country’s pavilion, reversed a controversial decision to drop the pair earlier this year. The organization’s board […]
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Lorde Shocks Fans With Nude Vulva Photo by Talia Chetrit
In the lead-up to the release of Lorde’s fourth album, Virgin, this past weekend, the singer’s social media was riddled with hints of what might come. Lorde, whose real name is Ella Marija Yelich-O’Connor, stoked hysteria in New York City’s Washington Square Park in April after she debuted her single “What Was That?” on top […]
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A Mother and Daughter’s Lifelong Art Collaboration
AUSTIN — Nora Naranjo Morse and Eliza Naranjo Morse: Lifelong at the Blanton Museum of Art is part of In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships, a larger project at the museum that looks at the relationships between three artist pairs: the Nanranjo Morse mother and daughter duo, Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi, and José Guadalupe […]
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After Pressure, City Saves Jobs at Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum will not be moving forward with layoffs of over a dozen workers thanks to $2.5 million in new funds from New York City Council, which approved the money as part of budget negotiations for the 2026 fiscal year yesterday, June 30. Facing a growing deficit, the Brooklyn Museum announced its intent to cut around 47 full- and […]
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Tracing Queer History Through NYC’s Public Parks
This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2025 Pride Month series, spotlighting moments from New York’s LGBTQ+ art history throughout June. Whether serving as sites of protest, celebration, communal mourning, or remembrance, public parks have always played a vital role in the history of New York City’s LGBTQ+ rights movement. Across the five boroughs, from the “People’s Beach” at […]
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Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction
HOUSTON — On April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Joe Overstreet began a new painting. The piece that would become “Justice, Faith, Hope, and Peace” (1968) takes its title from King’s impassioned words, which Overstreet interprets as colliding angles, target-like rings, and diamond-shaped central panels, diverging from the rectangular […]
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Behind a Flight Attendant’s Painted-On Smile
On my second visit to Hello Goodbye at Dimin, ceramicist Michelle Im’s first solo exhibition in New York, her terracotta flight attendants were much smaller than I remembered. Perhaps it was the press release’s reference to the Xi’an terracotta soldiers that made me think they were larger, or the combined presence of their multiplicity. Im’s […]
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The $90,000 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants and the children of immigrants in the US pursuing graduate studies — including MFAs and other full-time degrees — with up to $90,000 in funding. Each year, 30 outstanding New Americans are selected for their potential to make significant contributions to American society, culture, […]
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Lisa Yuskavage’s Genre-Defying Works on Paper Presented at the Morgan Library & Museum
Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is the first career-spanning museum exhibition dedicated to the drawings of the acclaimed contemporary artist. On view through January 4, 2026, this show at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City highlights more than three decades of Yuskavage’s intimate and inventive works on paper. Yuskavage is known for her charged […]
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Tourist Denied US Entry After ICE Found JD Vance Meme on His Phone
Mads Mikkelsen, a 21-year-old from Norway, was denied entry to the United States earlier this month after immigration officers uncovered a popular meme featuring a chubby, bald Vice President JD Vance on his phone. In an interview, Mikkelsen told Hyperallergic that he arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 11 from Norway for a […]
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Anna Wintour to Remain Met Gala Chair
After nearly four decades of reigning with an iron fist, Anna Wintour is stepping down from her fiery throne as editor-in-chief of American Vogue. According to an announcement yesterday, June 26, by the magazine, the British-American fashion media executive will continue in her roles as global editorial director for Vogue and chief content officer for […]
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Required Reading
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Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer of Lived Experience, Dies at 95
Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon, who tirelessly trained her lens on the social inequalities, painful struggles, and human resilience to which she bore witness around the world, died early Monday morning, June 30, at the age of 95. The news of her death was announced by Stephen Bulger Gallery, which has exhibited her work since 2007. […]
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Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake
SAN FRANCISCO — There’s nothing nicer than going into a major museum show like Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art at the Legion of Honor filled with wariness around its (obvious?) premise and leaving not just convinced, but charmed. To be clear, I was already a Thiebaud fan. Colorful and fun, while deeply earnest about […]
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The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph
Before the telephone rendered it obsolete, the optical telegraph was somewhat of a national fixation in 19th-century France. Petrified by the unknown, Parisians smashed an early version in 1792. Politicians were suspicious of what the author calls “mechanical monsters, secretive and strange,” in the aftermath of the French Revolution. And this “angular and winged” device’s […]
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Stunning Photos of the Cosmos From the World’s Largest Digital Camera
Millions of iridescent stars, far-off remote galaxies, and swarms of hurtling asteroids are just a few of the cosmic phenomena captured in the first images taken by the world’s largest digital camera. The Vera Rubin Observatory, a new United States-funded astronomy facility stationed in central Chile, shared its inaugural findings with the public at an […]
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This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum
I don’t tell this story often, and have never told it in such detail publicly before. However, given our current moment of crisis in the United States, only a few months into the second Trump administration, it seems an important story to tell. It is a set of experiences that were horrible to live through, […]
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Chloë Bass Eschews the Clichés of Mixed-Race Art
Chloë Bass likes to people watch, and our emotions are her medium. She’s part of a lineage of artists across fields who critically explore race and social performance, eschewing simplistic narratives — from writer Danzy Senna to the late conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady. Bass’s practice of using text with assemblage, mirrors, and urban signage embodies […]
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Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
Artist’s voices aren’t always easy to listen to. Sometimes it’s because they’re speaking to uncomfortable realities that shape our societies and lives. In other cases, the art may be part of that uncomfortable reality, reflecting rather than critiquing harmful perspectives. The solo exhibitions below all represent artists with strong individual visions and voices, some more […]
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Visitor Tears Hole in 17th-Century Painting at Uffizi Galleries
It seems that every summer, a handful of tourists visiting Italy wreak havoc on archaeological sites and fine art exhibitions nationwide. This Saturday, June 21, a visitor to the Uffizi Galleries in Florence tore a hole in a 17th-century portrait after stumbling backwards during an attempt to mimic the subject’s pose for a photo. Widely […]
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The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati
TUNIS — It was early spring in Tunisia, and shockingly bright bougainvillea were exploding, the sky was a bright cerulean blue, and the Mediterranean a span of endless turquoise. That riot of vibrant color outside was also found inside, at the B7L9 Art Centre, host to The Birds Are Chirping Above The Tree, the first solo […]
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Ringling Museum Will Stay Under Florida State University, for Now
The sculptures outside the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, breathe a sigh of relief as DeSantis’s proposal to transfer the museum is dropped. (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, photo via Getty Images) Sarasota’s John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art will remain under the stewardship of Florida State University (FSU) for the upcoming fiscal year after […]
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Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
To liberally paraphrase Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Locksley Hall,” in the summer, a young artist’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of the forthcoming 2026 Venice Biennale. With the application for proposals for the United States Pavilion (focused on “American Values”) open through the US State Department until July 30, so many proven, conscientious, and qualified […]
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An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art
LOS ANGELES – I remember when the smoke plume from the Palisades and Eaton fires left LA in January, its black veil drifting out to sea like a hand loosening its grip. Recently, it feels like the smoldering mass has returned as an ICE-shaped fist tightening from the coast to the San Fernando Valley. Fire […]
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Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze
Alice Austen, “Trude & I masked, short skirts” (August 6, 1891); Collection of Historic Richmond Town, Alice Austen Photograph Collection (all images courtesy Historic Richmond Town, unless otherwise noted) Clear Comfort, the home where photographer Alice Austen grew up and lived for the majority of her life, was not one of the large estates the […]
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30 NYC Monuments of Black Americans You Should Know
Elizabeth Catlett, “Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison” (2003) (all photos by David Jacobs, courtesy David Felsen) In Upper Manhattan, amid the vibrant green foliage of Riverside Park, the whiz of rushing cars from the West Side highway, and the hum of bustling Harlem apartments, a 15-foot-tall bronze depicts the hollow outline of a […]
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For Glenn Ligon, Language Is Material
The Brant Foundation’s Glenn Ligon isn’t a deep dive into the artist’s career, but it is a concise overview that does something rare: it gives the art space to connect with the viewer. The show’s eight works, all drawn from the Brant’s collection, are spread across four stories, two of which are dedicated to one […]
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Museum of the American Latino Could Vanish Under Trump
The National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) and the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, DC, are on the chopping block as the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institution. President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal does not include funding for NMAL nor the Anacostia Community Museum, which opened in 1967 with the vision of […]
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Rain Couldn’t Dampen the Spirit of Brooklyn Pride
You can’t spell “rainbow” without “rain.” Despite less-than-ideal weather, Brooklyn Pride Day kicked off without a hitch this past Saturday, June 14, with its annual celebration convening local queer community members and allies for family-friendly festivities in a 14-block stretch along Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue. Beginning at noon and carrying on well after the sun […]
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Louvre Museum Shutters as “Exhausted” Staff Go on Strike
Thousands of visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris were stuck in hours-long lines outside the institution today, June 16, when the museum shuttered for part of the day due to an unplanned staff strike. The spontaneous work stoppage, which involved gallery attendants and reception and security workers, focused on claims of poor working conditions […]
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Preserving the Age-Old Art of Malaysian Shadow Puppetry
KELANTAN, MALAYSIA — A puppet with flowing hair and a sharp-toothed grin came soaring into view as background singers shrieked, cackled, and whooped. Illya Sumanto spread her arms wide, making the beautiful ghost Pontianak glide across the screen, surfing on a banana. “To play Wayang, you need big movements, but traditionally, women [in Southeast Asia] […]
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Ali Banisadr Paints a World in Calamity
KATONAH, New York — In calamity and in commotion — that’s where I begin when I visit Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist at the Katonah Museum. The show includes paintings that are almost 7 by 10 feet and much smaller ones, such as “Black” (2007), which, at 28 by 24 inches, still manages to stagger me. […]
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The Des Moines Art Center Presents Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa features more than 30 works showcasing nearly two decades of the artist’s paintings, drawings, and multimedia installations that transport viewers through time and space, creating opportunities for wonder, reflection, and enlightenment. On view through September 21, Firelei Báez explores the multilayered legacy of colonial histories […]
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National Portrait Gallery Director Quits After Trump “Firing”
Kim Sajet, who has led the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) for over a decade, has resigned from her director position, weeks after President Donald Trump claimed he fired her for being a “highly partisan person” and a “strong supporter of DEI.” Sajet’s departure was first announced in an internal memo that Secretary Bunch sent […]
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Indian Craft Shop Closure Leaves Complicated Legacy
WASHINGTON, DC — The Indian Craft Shop, which has presented the handmade arts and crafts of federally recognized American Indians since 1938, closed on June 6. Located just blocks from the White House, it has had a historic presence in the main hallway of the massive Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building for […]
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LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters
Protesters with signs designed by artist Patrick Martinez in downtown LA on June 8, 2025 (photo courtesy Patrick Martinez) LOS ANGELES — In response to the ICE raids and subsequent protests that began last week in Los Angeles, several arts organizations have made statements in solidarity with immigrants and activists. On Monday, four art spaces located […]
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Nadya Tolokonnikova Builds a Prison of Her Own
LOS ANGELES — Police State, a 10-day durational performance by activist, artist, and Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova, transforms the cavernous warehouse of the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles into a site of carceral confinement and government surveillance. Since last Thursday, June 5, Tolokonnikova has occupied a recreation of a drab, […]
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A Visual Archive of Diasporican Liberation
As a conceptual artist myself, I instinctively approached Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology (2025) with an eagerness to explore the visual storytelling within. I wanted to know: What is represented here? Is this anthology mostly painting and sculpture, or does it delve into photography, community, and performance art — mediums that often […]
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Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Arch Reopens After $8.9M Restoration
After nearly two years of extensive restoration, the soaring Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, has reopened to the public. The completion of the nearly $8.9 million project was celebrated last week in a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the New York City Department of Parks and the Prospect […]
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Defining Photos From LA’s Historic Anti-ICE Protests
Flaming self-driving Waymo cars, “Death 2 ICE” spray-painted across the entrance of a boarded T-Mobile store, highway overpasses dotted with anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) graffiti, swaths of police cars lined up. These are some of the scenes captured by photojournalists during mass protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles over the weekend. The demonstrations […]
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The Dark Side of Education
In Gordon Parks’s photograph “Radio Technicians’ Class, Daytona Beach, Florida” (1943), two rows of students gaze obediently at their professor, whose back is to the viewer. Headphones on and books open, the class is engaged, even enraptured. The work is part of a series of images Parks made while working as a photographer for the […]
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Jim Shaw Peels Back American Pop Culture’s Facade
Jim Shaw, “Large Study for ‘Origin of the Species’” (2016), pencil on paper (all photos Zach Reich/Hyperallergic) Jim Shaw seems to thrive on esoteric references and unlikely juxtapositions. In the 1990s, he began his ongoing Dream Drawings series and his Oism project, reflecting his long interest in world-building. With Drawings at Gagosian — a selection […]
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A View From the Easel
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Required Reading
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San Francisco Art Institute Becomes Free Experimental Studio Program
Two years ago, the once-lofty San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) filed for bankruptcy amid mounting debts, a failed merger with the University of San Francisco, and the decision to close its doors after matriculating the final class of 2022. The situation was so dire that the college’s administration even considered selling its crown jewel, Diego […]
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A Trump-Musk Feud That’s Ripe for the Meme-ing
One of many Mean Girl references dominating the Musk-Trump feud feed (via X, all screenshots Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) Elonald. Elump. Trelon. Trusk. Mump. Whatever combined moniker you gave Elon Musk and Donald Trump as they worked in tandem to diminish any vestige of a social safety net that remained in the United States, say goodbye to […]
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Art Dealer Daniel Lelong Dies at 92
Daniel Lelong in 2009 at Galerie Lelong in Paris (all images courtesy Galerie Lelong) Daniel Lelong, co-founder of Galerie Lelong in Paris and New York, died on Wednesday, June 4, at the age of 92. The news of his death was confirmed by the gallery. Remembered for his “positive spirit, sociable demeanor, and enthusiasm for […]
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Apocalypse Art Has Never Been More Relevant
William Blake, “The Whore of Babylon” (1809) (all photos Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Amid collective failures to stop genocide and fascism in 2025, the Book of Revelation’s scenes of vivid combat between good and evil hit home. How satisfying to behold Saint Michael impaling a dragon in a Rhineland manuscript, for instance. At the Bibliothèque […]
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Artist Covers Transphobic Billboard With Giant Dachshund Drawing
Weeks after the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that a woman can only be defined on the basis of biological sex, one artist has taken a stand against a transphobic billboard with the power of a really large Dachshund named Saveloy. Working under the name “youralrightyouare” — abbreviated as Yaya — the street artist added […]
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Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images
PASADENA — One fascinating thing about parenting is seeing how your children combine your mannerisms with their exposure to the larger community in their own developing personalities. My five-year-old daughter loves mimicking the dance choreography of Blackpink and is growing up in a time when K-pop is a global sensation. My preteen daughter loves to […]
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Trump’s New Portrait Is as Perverse as His Second Term
Because apparently a gold-framed mugshot, chorus of New York Post covers, and raised-fist propagandist painting weren’t enough, another portrait of President Donald Trump has entered the West Wing. The White House revealed the new addition yesterday, June 2, in an X video scored to music strangely reminiscent of the Austin Powers theme song. It has […]
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Alan Michelson’s Answer to the “Vanishing Indian” Myth
As a child, Alan Michelson often rode the T past sculptor Cyrus Edward Dallin’s “Appeal to the Great Spirit” (1908) outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). He was riveted by the statue’s grand horse and the powerful yet melancholy figure wearing a striking Plains Indian war bonnet. It was only in his 20s […]
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Four New York City Shows to See Right Now
The exhibitions this week show us how we shape ourselves in history’s image, and the other way around. Lotus L. Kang’s assemblages at 52 Walker draw from diasporic memory, yet her draped film sculptures form an ongoing document of the exhibition’s idiosyncrasies of light and movement. Meanwhile, Rashid Johnson’s survey at the Guggenheim Museum draws […]
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The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: June 2025
Kick off Pride month with clues on Marsha P. Johnson’s biographer, Greek amphora nymphs, Victorian lesbian photography, a painter who was also Frida Kahlo’s rumored lover, an iconic Eero Sarinen structure, and more. Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. […]
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Tony Tasset Exposes the World’s Frayed Canvas
CHICAGO — Tony Tasset is the master of making things that are so bad they’re good. Over the course of the artist’s long career, this has included a 30-foot-tall replica of his own eyeball, a cross assembled from Diet Coke cans, bronze magnolia trees forever in bloom, dirty snowmen that never melt, abstract expressionist canvases […]
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8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month
“He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you’ve had that experience, you see differently.” That’s writer James Baldwin reflecting in an 1984 interview on his late mentor Beauford Delaney, the queer Black painter who introduced the young writer to […]
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A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of “Nope”
Famed anonymous street artist Banksy has broken his six-month silence this morning, claiming credit via an Instagram post for a new black and white mural on a textured wall at yet another undisclosed location. In his signature fashion of responding to the existing environment, Banksy stenciled the silhouette of a lighthouse against a cream-colored wall, […]
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How to Get a Read on Rashid Johnson
Once, when I was in my 20s and too much feeling the weight of being a Black man in the United States — someone onto whom most people I encountered would project their assumptions — I had the idea to create a t-shirt that would say, “Your space for projection here.” I feel this phrase […]
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Joiri Minaya Upends the Allure of Exoticization
PHILADELPHIA — In a bucolic corner of the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia sits the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in North America. Bartram’s Garden, named after its founder, botanist John Bartram (1699–1777), is the site of many continental firsts, including being home to the oldest ginkgo tree in North America. But its history, as part […]
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Trump Says He Fired National Portrait Gallery Director Over DEI Support
Kim Sajet attends the American Portrait Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on November 17, 2019, in Washington, DC. (photo by Shannon Finney/Getty Images) President Donald Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that he has terminated Kim Sajet from her role as director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, […]
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Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University
This week, Harvard University agreed to relinquish 15 daguerreotypes thought to be among the earliest photographs of enslaved people in the United States as part of a landmark settlement with Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019. Lanier had confirmed her genealogical ties to Papa Renty, whom she grew up hearing stories about from […]
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Required Reading
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“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds
Pigeons are disappearing from Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, and one artist says she knows why. New York fixture Tina Piña Trachtenburg — better known as “Mother Pigeon” for her signature feathered gowns — paced back and forth in front of a Bushwick pet store on Saturday, May 24, with a sullen expression. She carried […]
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Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81
Brazilian photojournalist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado died at the age of 81 in Paris on Friday, May 23, as confirmed by his and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado’s reforestation nonprofit Instituto Terra. Having traveled to over 120 countries, Salgado was perhaps best known for his striking black and white photos documenting humanity’s profound inequalities, Indigenous […]
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Protest Targets Whitney Museum Board Ties After Canceled Performance
A group of protesters staged a demonstration in the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art last Friday evening, May 23, targeting board members “tied to genocide, militarism, and apartheid” and accusing the museum of censorship after it canceled a performance about Palestinian mourning at the Independent Study Program (ISP) earlier this month. The […]
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New York City Shows to See Right Now
Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our environments from a different perspective: creative reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and re-envisioning architecture as inviting and inclusive. While Kiah Celeste and Yuji Agematsu create art from utilitarian objects and refuse in vastly different ways, […]
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Why Are We Still Obsessed With Pompeii?
A bronze statue at Pompeii’s Temple of Apollo, with Mount Vesuvius visible in the background (photo by Graham O’Keeffe via Flickr) In February of 2021, German-born archaeologist Gabriel Zuchtriegel was named as the Pompeii Archaeological Park’s new director. His tenure has seen notable shifts, particularly in terms of the public image of the park. There […]
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How the Motorcar Helped Fuel Feminism
ST. LOUIS — American car culture has long seemed synonymous with a particular make of men: showy, and yet unsure that they have something to show, as likely to ogle a woman’s figure as they are a curvaceous fender. Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939 flips that conflation between motorcar and machismo on […]
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Xingzi Gu Shows the Vulnerability of Youth
I first saw Xingzi Gu’s vaporous paintings of adolescents on the brink of adulthood at the artist’s MFA show at New York University. The child of artists living and working in Nanjing, Gu left China to study art in New Zealand after high school before moving to New York for graduate school. Following a successful […]
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Why Did Pope Leo XIV Invoke Van Gogh in His First Address?
Pope Leo XIV invoked Vincent van Gogh’s “Sower at Sunset” (1888) in his first general audience on Wednesday, May 21, using the painting to illustrate his reflections on the biblical Parable of the Sower. The Pope ruminated on the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter’s work while speaking to a crowd of some 40,000 people at Saint Peter’s […]
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A View From the Easel
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Care and Connection Are at the Heart of the 2025 Hawai‘i Triennial
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.” The sculpture, which enlarges the curving form of a calabash to room-sized proportions, holds its own within the airy space. An opening allows people to enter, and inside, an audio track speaks the names of […]
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Does the Art World Need a New Art Fair in Qatar?
Art Basel announced this week that it will host a new fair in the Qatari capital city of Doha, partnering with the state-operated Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and creative and hospitality agency QC+. The forthcoming and inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar is set to take place at the M7 Cultural Forum of the Qatar […]
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The Hunter MFA Show Is One of the Best Shows of the Year
There’s a tendency when it comes to MFA shows to apply a different set of standards — it’s good “for student work”; it’s a showcase for burgeoning talent that’ll be fit for the galleries with a touch of tailoring, a bit of scaling back. So let me just say this up front: The work at the […]
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Hit by Federal Grant Losses, NYC Culture Orgs Ask for More City Funding
Several dozen New York City arts and culture advocates — including unionized museum workers, public school educators, community nonprofit leaders, visual artists, theater performers, and musicians — rallied in the rain outside City Hall in Manhattan yesterday morning, May 21, to call for increased funding for the sector. Coordinated by the advocacy organization New Yorkers […]
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