Arshile Gorky’s Gaze

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Let’s talk puppets! The transformative process of crafting and bringing an inanimate object to life is one of our most ancient forms of storytelling, and has been documented in communities like the Maya, Toltec, Navajo, and Hopi from as early as the 16th century. Puppetry continues to be a vibrant form of […]

For this edition of Hyperallergic’s video essay column, we’re doing something a little different. Rather than the usual list of five recent web videos of note, we’re including one commercially released feature film, as well as a new tool of which essayists can make fun use. Essays on video games, sports, and clothing round out […]

Frida Kahlo, “Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (Autorretrato con pelo cortado)” (1940), oil on canvas (Digital Image © 2025 MoMA, N.Y.; © 2025 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) Following the bold critical acclaim of her first solo exhibition in New York in 1938, […]