Category: Arts Entertainments

A St. Louis arts center has come under scrutiny for its abrupt cancellation of an exhibition centered around Palestinian liberation.…

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

Art History, Visual and Performing Arts, and Graphic Design majors across the nation are associated with the highest rates of…

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

While the arts and culture sectors contribute 7.4% of New York’s economy, a majority of artists in the state earn…

The daring bohemian downtown Manhattan of decades past is long gone — the inimitable traces of Arshile Gorky, Elaine de…

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

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

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

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

Artist June Leaf, celebrated for her experimental and intuitive curiosity for motion, gestures, and the female form, died on Monday,…

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

Anton van Dalen, who documented the East Village from grittiness through gentrification with a distinctive, graphic vernacular, died at home…

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

LOS ANGELES — The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) specializes in the kind of wonder found in the encyclopedic museums of…

Although frequently introduced as a student of Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, abstract expressionist painter Lawrence Calcagno was his own…

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

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

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

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

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

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

TAIPEI — There Is Another Capital Beneath the Waves at the Hong Gah Museum guides its audiences assertively through its…

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

James Alexander Simpson, “Portrait, probably of Mary Ann Tritt Cassell” (1839), promised gift on extended loan to the Baltimore Museum…

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

The United States Supreme Court decided against a Los Angeles woman who argued that her constitutional rights to marriage and…

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

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

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

The Brooklyn Museum has seen its share of artist-driven protests over the last few years, from the action against This…

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

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

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

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

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

Part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Stamps Gallery announces three…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call…

Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from the essay “Native Prospects: Indigenous Peoples and the…

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

Hundreds of artists, independent publishers, writers, zine-makers, and readers will converge on Lower Manhattan’s Saint Mark’s Place this Saturday, June…

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

Installation view of Rosana Paulino, “Assentamento” (2013) at MALBA (photo by Felipe Bozzani, courtesy MALBA) BUENOS AIRES — The life-size…

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

A gallery owner from Washington, DC, recently told me that 2024 wouldn’t be a good year for sales. “For one…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two hands, finely wrinkled and thick at the knuckles, rest one atop the other, gathered together in quiet elegance. They…

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

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

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

Xingzi Gu’s paintings do not consider earthly gravity, nor do they depict scenes that have ever existed on this planet.…

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

Posted inCrosswords Start off Pride Month with queer French painters, artists’ Zodiac signs, morse code symbols, and more in this…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shelley Niro (Kanien’kehaka) grew up watching her father craft faux tomahawks to sell to tourists who flocked to her birthplace,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

A reimagined Artforum cover by Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) urges contributors to continue boycotting the beleaguered art…

This year’s Venice Biennale was particularly strong in terms of national pavilions, as countries negotiated the contemporary moment with decisions…

MARDIN, Turkey — As attendees mingled on the terrace of a 19th-century stone mansion during the opening of the 6th Mardin…

‣ Over 100 writers are calling for board members of the Asian-American literary organization Kundiman to resign, penning an open letter…

Can we identify the survivors of Mount Vesuvius’s devastating volcanic eruption in 79 CE? The second episode of the three-part…

A sense of gloom permeated the New York Studio School’s annual MFA exhibition. What is the middle ground between losing…

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

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

Danielle SeeWalker, “G is for Genocide” (2024), acrylic, aerosol, and oil stick on canvas, 18 x 24 inches (all images…

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

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

This moment in United States arts philanthropy is defined in part by long-overdue investments in Black, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and…

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOS ANGELES — Why does the male praying mantis bother to mate when he knows that there’s a roughly 30%…

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

Buckingham Palace has welcomed the first official portrait of England’s King Charles III since his and Queen Camilla’s coronation in…

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

LOS ANGELES — The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Santa…

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

Knocking April’s solar eclipse off its pedestal entirely, a geomagnetic storm shuttling across earth’s atmosphere cast an aurora borealis across…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 2024 Thesis Exhibition at Lehman College Art Gallery showcases artwork by undergraduate and graduate students of the Lehman College Art Department.…

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

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

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

As part of the exhibition In Real Time, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery presents Entrusted Ground, a dance performance that…

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

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

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

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

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

As an immigrant, a woman, and a queer artist, Chryssa — who used only her first name professionally — became a leading…

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

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

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

Pulling Teeth and Jumping Rope showcases thesis work by 27 graduates of the Masters of Fine Arts program at the…

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

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

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

The outside of the Vatican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale featuring a mural by Maurizio Cattelan (photo Julie Baumgardner/Hyperallergic) VENICE…

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

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

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

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

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

The American Folk Art Museum proudly announces an electrifying benefit event headlined by Nadya Tolokonnikova, the iconic artist and activist…

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

Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD) Advanced Program Online is a college-level certificate for art and design students in grades…

Massachusetts College of Art and Design is proud to present the 2024 MassArt MFA Thesis Exhibition at MassArt x SoWa.…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the 60th International Venice Biennale, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan presents the Collateral Event Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday…

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

Presented for the first time in the context of the city of Prague, A devoured hedge burrows deep II is an interactive spatial…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their…

By a government decree, Germany’s National Gallery in Berlin (Alte Nationalgalerie) has removed all artwork depicting rivers or seas from…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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