Category: Arts Entertainments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‣ Writer Kelsey McKinney — best known as the host of the tea-spilling podcast Normal Gossip — reflects in Defector on…

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

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

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

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Let’s talk puppets! The transformative process of crafting and bringing an inanimate object to life is one…

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

In a dark room, an oscillating fan turns the humid air; a jazz record spins from an old turntable. A…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In late August, Netflix released Kaos, a dark comedy reimagining Greek mythology for a modern audience. British actor and writer…

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

The mission of the Roman J. Witt Residency Program is to support the production of new work at the University…

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

Bharti Kher, “Angel” (2004), digital print on archival Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, 45 x 30 inches (114.3 x 76.2 cm)…

LOS ANGELES — There’s something uncanny about the Pico Union street sign printed onto a black t-shirt. Its typeface doesn’t…

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

“Wow, y’all look so good in your masks,” gushed co-curator danilo machado at the September 18 opening of to hold…

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

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

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

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

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

On the occasion of the major exhibition showcasing renowned black ash basket weavers, Kelly Church & Cherish Parrish: In Our…

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

This fall, discover Glenn Ligon’s sharp, insightful writing; Gustav Metzger ’s account of his extraordinary life, art, and political activism;…

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

Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World is now on view at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography…

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

Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign presents Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams, the first retrospective of…

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

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

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has declined the Noguchi Museum’s 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award in a gesture of support for…

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

The master’s degree program in Curatorial Practice (MACP) at the School of Visual Arts in New York City is pleased…

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

The Department of Art at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning invites applications to undergraduate and graduate degree…

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

On Friday, September 27, Pratt Manhattan Gallery will open Seeing Sound, an expansive group exhibition that explores the recent trajectory…

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

The Learner of Wands card from the Mixed Signals tarot deck by M Eilo (all images courtesy M Eilo) Hyperallergic’s…

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

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

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

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

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

The anticipation is heating up for the sixth annual Refract Glass Art Festival, taking place October 17–20 in Seattle, Washington.…

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

Meet UConn’s MFA Studio Art Class of 2027. Working in a broad range of art making, the class features: Dakota…

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

A small town in South Carolina might not be top of mind when considering the South’s art scene, but each…

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

The exhibition Smoke & Mirrors explores a new artistic genre called “access aesthetics,” which considers how artists make transparent the…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new exhibition at the University of Hartford, Pathways: Hartford Art School Faculty Show, unveils the latest creations from the…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fall is a busy time in the art world, as galleries regroup after summer break and museums unveil new blockbuster…

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

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

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

The shattered jar was thrown off its base at the Hecht Museum. (image courtesy Hecht Museum) As the adage goes:…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‣ Darcie Little Badger, a Lipan Apache novelist, pens a personal essay in the Texas Observer about the repatriation of an…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Workers at the Storm King Art Center (SKAC) in New York’s Hudson Valley passed their first-ever union contracts in late…

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

What on earth happened to the cherubim of Soria’s Hermitage of the Virgin of Mirón? Soria Patrimonio, a group dedicated…

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

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

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

An individual was arrested yesterday, July 31, in connection with the vandalism of Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak’s home earlier…

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

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

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

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

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

Dinh Q. Lê in his studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (image courtesy PPOW Gallery) Vietnamese American visual artist…

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

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games kicked off last Friday, July 26, with an extravagant opening ceremony along the Seine…

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

August can be a slow month in the art world, but the 10 shows below offer some visual and conceptual…

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

I definitely felt there was a bit of a wink behind the choice to explore questions around nature and queerness…

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

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

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

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

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

The sports world may be on the edge of its seats as we draw close to the 2024 Olympics in…

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

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

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

A new digital catalog raisonné will document the creative output of artist Florine Stettheimer, who imbued a theatrical whimsy into…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in Manhattan’s Washington Heights announced plans to launch a new global hub for the…

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

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

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

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

Pioneering video artist Bill Viola died at age 73 at his home in Long Beach, California, on Friday, July 12…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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