Category: Arts Entertainments

Complex, compelling, and fantastical are just some of the words that could describe the shows below. Plan on making time…

This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized…

Crypto magnate Justin Sun, who purchased Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana “Comedian” (2019) in November for $6.2 million, is now suing…

Human beings have a tendency toward collection. I have a theory that this desire to hang onto things is more…

Upon encountering Cy Twombly’s monumental nine-part polyptych “Untitled” (1971), I thought about the dark, domineering monolith that appears early on…

“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? … Girls are so much prettier,” Marie Laurencin once told…

What does a “black consciousness of space” look like? Does it form a positive or a negative, or elide the…

American artist, curator, and author Fareed Armaly has declined the 2025 Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Academy of the Arts…

In an all-staff meeting this morning, February 7, Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak confirmed that the institution would be implementing…

At the core of identity in the United States is forgetting. The process of assimilation tells immigrants that the path…

Blair Stapp, “Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense” (1968), lithographic ink on paper with linen backing (image public domain…

A painting by Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera acquired under Former First Lady Jill Biden has become the first work by…

The New York Public Library’s (NYPL) Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem is turning 100, and marking…

LOS ANGELES — A king, a nurse, and two ballerinas walk into a bar. Or, more accurately, they walk into…

Kick off February with a puzzle gleaming with tributes to the late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, clues on Imani Perry’s new…

Last month, the Los Angeles art world was deeply affected by the wildfires that destroyed homes and businesses in the…

Deep in her imagination, painter Alexis Trice dreams of a canine that keeps appearing in her art. “One day,” she…

This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized…

Craft Archive Fellowship Virtual Program: Archives in ActionThursday, February 27, from 5 to 6:30pm (EST) Join the Center for Craft…

President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) mandating all federal agencies to end Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs is rippling…

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed has requested the removal of a billboard artwork featuring a historic photograph from Selma’s infamous “Bloody…

Contemporary art gallery owner and philanthropist Gloria Naftali spent much of her life turning a Chelsea warehouse at 508-534 West…

This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized…

Valentine’s Day is an annual reminder that affection for others and personal passion are vital aspects of living creatively amid…

Cover of Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry (Ecco, 2025), featuring…

Artist Graham Nickson, who led the New York Studio School (NYSS) in Manhattan for more than half of its history…

LOS ANGELES — The Spring Break Art Show has cancelled its upcoming LA fair, which was scheduled to take place…

The Smithsonian Institution reportedly told staff members today, January 28, that it is closing its office for diversity, equity, and…

Nicolás González-Medina, woodcut block for “Somos La Resistencia (We Are the Resistance)” (2025) print (all images courtesy Nicolás González-Medina) Oakland-based…

Over the last 15 months, artists have mobilized against Israel’s attacks on civilians in Gaza, which organizations including Amnesty International…

Duane Michals, “Untitled (Andy Warhol and Mother)” (1958), gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) (photo…

Egúngún Àgbà (elder) masquerade performer from West Africa with horns that hint at a familial lineage of hunters or warriors.…

Two drawings by the renowned late Indian artist Maqbool Fida (M.F.) Husain at the Delhi Art Gallery (DAG) in New…

Between Mark Zuckerberg’s dissolution of Meta’s fact-checking program and Elon Musk loosening hate speech and disinformation moderation on X —…

Do you ever feel like a plastic trash bag in the shape of Elon Musk? No? Good. This fitting effigy…

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, is ending its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs as a…

Book Talk: Tamara Lanier’s Fight With Harvard to #FreeRentyWednesday, February 12, at 8pm (EST) / 5pm (PST) At this online…

Two art galleries in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood were affected when a fire broke out in a building on Wednesday night,…

The opening salvo of Sin Fatigue, Nadine Sarriedine gallery’s inaugural show, is a fortune cookie message rendered in textile by…

Jo Baer in 2020 (© Yaël Temminck) The painter Jo Baer, whose artistic path journeyed from hard-edged minimalism to self-described…

The Creative Capital Foundation has announced the recipients of its annual grant awards, amounting to $2.45 million allotted across 55…

Visitors to the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday, January 18, may have met some of the artists included in one of…

OSLO — Look closely at the paintings of Else Hagen and beneath the rainbow of festive color lurk clouds of…

HUDSON, New York — To talk about New Work By Linda Mussmann and Spaces in Places at Time & Space…

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday commemorating the Civil Rights leader and peace activist, has taken place on…

The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, is slated to host a fundraising dinner organized by the Trump…

LOS ANGELES — As the wildfires that devastated large swaths of Los Angeles last week are gradually being contained, thousands…

Fundraising efforts have sprouted across the United States to support Angelenos displaced amid the unprecedented destruction from the devastating fires…

Whether you’re trying to beat the winter blahs or enjoy the rare moments of midwinter sunshine, there’s plenty of compelling…

David Lynch, the multi-hyphenate film director and artist known for classics both cult and traditional, from Blue Velvet (1986) to…

Editor’s Note: The following post contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or…

Cameron Granger, “1st Movement— Cartography Catastrophe” (2022), silkscreen on paper with pen, 22 x 30 inches (~55.9 x 76.2 cm)…

LOS ANGELES — Among all the destruction brought on by the unprecedented wildfires still burning across parts of LA County,…

Pepe is hard to put into words. The enigmatic film exemplifies brilliant filmmaking yet fumbles in its esotericism. In the…

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced $36.8 million in grants to 1,474 individual artists, organizations, and museums across…

When the Hollywood sign was first unveiled in 1923, it read “Hollywoodland.” Surrounded by coastal sage scrub, chaparral, and invasive and…

Unrecorded artist’s female figurine with hair in the “Hathor Style” and markings that appear to be tattoos from Egypt’s Middle…

Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (photo Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) Siena: The Rise of…

Even though my poor shelf is sagging under the weight of overdue library books and unread novels, I cannot resist…

Deepen your practice as an artist within a diverse and nurturing community of outstanding faculty and fellow graduate students. Throughout…

Determining what materials are considered public domain can be a tricky process. From commonly held misconceptions and complicated copyright laws…

As multiple fires continue to ravage parts of Los Angeles County, cultural organizations and individual artists have kickstarted initiatives to…

Several works by photographer Sally Mann displayed at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth were reportedly removed following Texas…

After laying off its 10-person team and cutting its hours ahead of the new year, the Pacific Tsunami Museum (PTM)…

Raquel Rabinovich in her studio in Rheinbeck, New York in 2024 (all images courtesy the Raquel Rabinovich Art Trust) Raquel…

In line for tickets at The Met’s Great Hall, I spotted the massive calligraphy of Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze, a…

The historic Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, the Theatre Palisades, Pierson Playhouse, and the Palisades Branch Library reported that their…

Self-taught Canadian Pop artist and activist Joe Average, who dedicated his life to uplifting those living with HIV/AIDS and advocating…

The rapidly spreading Pacific Palisades fire in Southern California reached the Getty Villa grounds in the afternoon of Tuesday, January…

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Martha Diamond: Deep Time at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the first posthumous exhibition of work by…

Parmigianino, “The Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Jerome” (1526–27), oil on poplar, 135 x ∼58 1/2…

Elizabeth Ai’s six-year journey to create New Wave (2024), a documentary capturing the experience of Vietnamese Americans’ postwar resettlement in…

Around 1963, Peter Young began to think of himself as a painter. A Los Angeles native who spent two years…

The MFA Art Practice (AP) program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) approaches artmaking holistically: artists in the program are…

It’s 2025 and time to start a new year of exploring art — and there’s already plenty to see. While…

Welcome to the 266th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

The Dutch East India Company, or the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC), was founded in 1602. As one of the first…

A group show of Raul de Lara, Shanique Emelife, Sihan Guo, and Tahnee Lonsdale premises art as a counterweight to…

Happy Public Domain Day! Starting today, January 1, you can legally access, adapt, remix, and republish (depending on your jurisdiction)…

Faith Ringgold, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Audrey Flack, Yong Soon Min, and Lorraine O’Grady were some of the artists we…

Tucked in jargony press releases thanking private donors, the substance of major museum acquisition announcements can be difficult to grasp.…

As committed chroniclers of the proverbial “art world” — an imperfect term denoting the ecosystem of artists, institutions, and other…

SEATTLE — In the edge becomes the center at the Frye Art Museum, Mary Ann Peters invokes the suppressed histories…

DETROIT — Food has always played a vital role in fostering and maintaining community. It’s a key component of cultural…

Holly Wright, “Final Portrait: Vivian and Bob Folkenflik” (1983) (all images courtesy the Fralin Museum of Art unless otherwise noted)…

All great empires rise gradually: brick by brick, wall by wall, fort by fort, war by war, plunder by plunder. …

Since our founding in 2009, Hyperallergic has always been at the forefront of social media, from finding our first home…

Some of the year’s Most Powerless, including climate activist Jackson “Kroegeor” Green, Jonathan Yeo’s King Charles portrait, a recent art…

Welcome to the 265th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

This week, I’m taking back the reins of Required Reading as Lakshmi is currently on vacation. This edition is video-rich…

A Palestinian film centering stories from Gaza has been shortlisted in the International Feature Film category for the 97th Academy…

“Creating is a process; it should be done for joy,” artist Rita Blitt told Hyperallergic in a recent video interview…

When you hear the name Sandro Botticelli, you might be more likely to think of the Birth of Venus than…

Hyperallergic’s tarotscope series is a combination of tarot with astrology, a reading for the collective readership combined with cards for…

As this year comes to a close and we gear up for the next, let’s take a moment to look…

The holidays are busy, but everyone needs a break, and what better way to replenish your mind and soul than…

Late American sculptor Robert Smithson’s best known creation, “Spiral Jetty” (1970), has been added to the United States National Register…

Modern audiences might have hazy notions of that tricky Ancient Greek hero of homecoming, Odysseus. They may know about his…

The Department of Art and Art History at the University at Albany, SUNY is accepting applications for MFA and MA programs in…

Photographs of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, have been percolating in cyberspace for…

Yesterday, the New York Police Department released photos of Luigi Mangione’s extradition to New York City. The accused murderer of…

Art can thrive in the most unfathomable times; 2024 was a year filled with global conflict but it was also…

In the 1970s, the humanist geographer Yi Fu Tuan speculated that “in some ideal future, our loyalty will be given…

Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez, whose dimensional paintings bridge geometric abstraction and eroticism, died at 98 on Wednesday, December 18. The…

A group of researchers from Florida and Italy recently discovered trace amounts of a hallucinogenic concoction in an Ancient Egyptian…

In 1973, gallerist Tibor de Nagy gave Joyce Kozloff a call. His voice quivered as he told her that Clement…

When London’s Tate Modern opened its doors in 2000, the museum greeted the public with Louise Bourgeois’s colossal arachnid steel…

LOS ANGELES — During the Cold War, the CIA secretly bankrolled cultural initiatives promoting Abstract Expressionism as a shining example…

Cecilia Vicuña’s practice of recollecting — in both senses of gathering and remembering — doubles as an act of care…

Leonardo da Vinci, “Lady with an Ermine” (1489–91), oil on wood panel, 21 x 15 inches (54 x 39 cm)…

How long have you been working in this space? Three months. Describe an average day in your studio. I arrive…

The MFA in Visual Arts at Purchase College, State of New York (SUNY), is a small, selective interdisciplinary program that…

EAST LANSING, Michigan — The road from Detroit to Michigan State University’s Broad Art Museum is bleak in winter. Gray…

Conceptual artist and critic Lorraine O’Grady, known for pivotal works that subverted the binaries of Western thought, died at the…

Seattle Art Museum (SAM) security guards reached a tentative agreement with the institution yesterday, December 11, ending a 12-day strike…

‣ Hyperallergic Senior Editor Hakim Bishara appeared on the BBC Sounds podcast to discuss the infamous banana auction heard ’round the…

The trailblazing poet, artist, educator, and lifelong activist Nikki Giovanni, known as the “Princess of Black Poetry,” died on Monday,…

BERLIN — At the opening reception of her career retrospective This Will Not End Well at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie on November…

In the late 1950s, a Manhattan-born college student was running from an art history course at Barnard to a George…

An exhibition space at an Austrian contemporary art museum was damaged on Saturday, December 7, in an apparent act of…

Those familiar with the Picnic House in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park might recognize it as a popular venue for weddings and…

Tetris is perfection. It is not merely one of the most important video games of all time, but, I would…

ATLANTA — The tale of two intrepid people setting off on a journey to explore the vast expanse of the…

MINNEAPOLIS — For five decades now, Sophie Calle has been probing human connection, emotional impulses, and vulnerability via fictional devices,…

MIAMI BEACH — Dozens of activists gathered outside of the Convention Center on the second public day of Art Basel…

Several California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) faculty and staff members hand-delivered a letter signed by 64 employees to the…

Early yesterday morning, December 5, an autonomous group of activists boarded the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette Street/Bleeker Street subway…

MIAMI — I have made it to Friday without forgetting my press pass in an Uber or developing cafecito-related heart…

‣ Historians have long debated the intention behind an 18th-century portrait of Afro-Jamaican scholar Francis Williams, and Fara Dabhoiwala writes…

“How do you teach the reader racial literacy through visual literacy?” asked the late cultural historian, writer, and curator Maurice…

This August, journalist Moustafa Bayoumi broke the story that the first photo of a detainee in a Central Intelligence Agency…

Miami Art Week inspires a range of emotions. For locals, it’s a chance to celebrate all the artistic wealth the…

The art world grows curiouser and curiouser each year, and 2024 was certainly no exception. Take a stab at our…

This month’s shows span the aquatic, familial, and celestial to engage with tradition and history, tracing threads of connection in…

When one door closes, another door opens — an art gallery door, that is. Yes, there’s a not insignificant number…

Have you ever heard your own stomach grumble so loudly in a quiet exhibition gallery that visitors turned to stare?…

Welcome to the 261st installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

‣ You’ve seen Florence Owens Thompson before, though you may not realize it. For Places, Myriam Gurba writes about the woman…

PRATO, Italy — Earlier this year, something drew me back to the diaries of Anaïs Nin. I’d read several volumes…

This is the fifth of a series of comics depicting transformative moments in the lives of artists, activists, and organizers…

I’m of the belief that a well-rounded life demands a bender here and there. I’m not suggesting a dip into…

Just in time for Thanksgiving, an archivist at the Smithsonian Institution has stumbled upon a treasure of culinary and visual…

When Lucy Lippard left New York City for the tiny village of Galisteo, New Mexico, some were shocked: How could…

Northeastern United States Bard Graduate CenterEmerging curators, researchers, educators, and museum professionals learn to ask new questions about the cultural…

Days before the Venice Biennale closed this year with the second-highest visitor turnout in its history, over 50 artists from…

Jewish-American artist and activist Nan Goldin criticized the German state and its unconditional allegiance to Israel in a searing speech…

We’re proud to present our list of the best art books of 2024 for your holiday reading, and perhaps to…

DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The first comprehensive survey in Germany of the American feminist artist and video pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson,…

I first met the multitalented Danny Moynihan in the early 1980s, but I did not see him again until recently.…

ALBUQUERQUE — Where is the artist’s voice in the museum? This question, posed during an artist roundtable on opening weekend…

A new life-sized statue celebrating actor and Chicano art collector Cheech Marin was unveiled on Tuesday, November 19, outside his…

Last night, November 20, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” (2019), a work that consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall, sold…

’Tis the season! At Hyperallergic, we are especially grateful to the members who make our work possible. To celebrate, we…

‣ Almost a century ago, the K’ëgit totem was bought and carried off by a Swiss artist. This week, a delegation…

How long have you been working in this space? Six months. Describe an average day in your studio. An average…

Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian” (2019) was offered at Sotheby’s with an estimate of $1–1.5 million. (image courtesy Sotheby’s) Back-to-back typhoons are…

Italian authorities have seized numerous well-preserved artifacts dating back to the third century BCE that were initially plundered from an…

Elections have consequences. The House, which will continue to be under the control of Republicans along with the Senate and…

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC) seeks to tap the well of local talent for a large-scale public art…

The Smithsonian Institution removed the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, DC, following years of staff…

A London judge sided with Icelandic fishing giant Samherji in an intellectual property lawsuit against conceptual artist Odee Friðriksson (ODEE), whose…

ISTANBUL — When curator Alper Turan and his collaborators from queer and feminist groups around Turkey discuss plans for their…

Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon was not afforded the opportunity to come into her own as an artist until her early…

‣ An independent, Michigan-based magazine by and for lesbians marks its 50th anniversary this year, and reporter Sydney Boles tells…

Dartmouth’s MFA in Sonic Practice is a three-year, fully-funded graduate program for composers, artists, and scholars working expansively with sound.…

Barbara Carrasco’s L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective” (1981) at the NHM Commons (all photos Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) LOS…

Before holiday fever kicks in, take advantage of all that the city’s museums and galleries have to offer. The Met’s…

In 2015, artist Matthew Chavez was recovering from a motorbike accident that left him in the hospital for three weeks…

ROSENDALE, New York — It was the summer of 1974 when college friends Ann Kalmbach, Tatana “Tana” Kellner, Anita Wetzel,…

A marble tablet inscribed with nine of the Ten Commandments, said to be the oldest intact version of its kind…

The Royal Film Commission (RFC) of Jordan withdrew its submission of a Jordanian-Armenian filmmaker’s documentary about Artsakh for the 97th…

How can architecture change the world? This year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF), held in Singapore’s Marina Bay, provides a glimpse…

The Berlin-born painter Frank Auerbach died at his home in London yesterday, November 11 at the age of 93. His…

An art complex in Albuquerque’s Barelas neighborhood suffered damages and is temporarily shuttered after a fire broke out earlier this…

MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — Diversity, equity, and inclusion: The refrain has climbed its way into common parlance in the last few…

In 1967, while living in exile in New York City, South African freelance photojournalist Ernest Cole published his seminal and…

Les-be honest, lady liberty. (screenshot via @CISFAKER on X, all screenshots Hyperallergic) I hate to say it, but when I…

Small experimental press Spiral Editions has published a new print, timed with an election that fried all of our nerves.…

A few weeks ago, dozens of photographs of the “We Are Our Mountains” (“Tatik-Papik”) monument in occupied Artsakh disappeared from…

United Nations (UN) exhibition staff removed part of a public art exhibition in its General Assembly Lobby in New York…

As many as 45 members and allies of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side gathered outside…

Welcome to the 258th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.…

When Microsoft debuted its landmark operating system Windows XP in the fall of 2001, the default desktop wallpaper “Bliss” ended…

Kamala Harris sold us “joy.” Instead, we got a crushing defeat and a return to the miserable days of Donald…

Norma I. Quintana, “Future Electorate” (2024) (left) and “Trump Voter” (2024) (images courtesy the artist) They used to call them…

Talk about a crafty release strategy — a waltz by the Romantic Polish composer Frédéric Chopin just dropped, about 200…

Installation view of Maura Brewer: Leverage at Timeshare, Los Angeles (all images courtesy Timeshare gallery, photos Brandon Bandy unless otherwise…

Beverly McIver’s “VOTE Black Beauty” (2024) references reproductive rights policies. (image courtesy Artists for Democracy) On November 5, millions of…

A dozen activists staged a silent action outside the Noguchi Museum during its annual benefit gala last Tuesday evening, October…

On October 7, 2023, I had plans to meet at the Brooklyn Museum with my close friend, Palestinian fashion designer…

Berlin-based artist Candice Breitz launched a line of clothing items to generate funds for the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. (all images…

Four photos from Carrie Mae Weems’s seminal Kitchen Table Series (1990) made a cameo appearance in a Kamala Harris campaign…

The anonymous artist behind two DC sculptures commemorating insurrectionist fecal matter on Nancy Pelosi’s desk and Charlottesville white supremacists’ tiki…

We’re deep into the fall art season and there’s much to see — and plenty of variety for everyone. Our…

Since singer-songwriter Anna Witiuk was 16 years old, she has undergone six open heart surgeries to help treat her Marfan…

Arizona photographer Sama Alshaibi said Democratic canvassers frequently knock on her door, sometimes up to three times a day. But…

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

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

“I hate gay halloween. What do you mean you’re Chappell Roan and a passenger seat?” (photos courtesy MottiComedy) Is it…